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Earlier this month, Double-Take Software acquired TimeSpring, a vendor of continuous data protection (CDP) software. TimeSpring's TimeData is available for several Windows applications - Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and the Windows NT File System (NTFS). The software, which is host-based, allows IT to recover files from any point in time. Among the customers of TimeData include software developer Prescient Development in Schaumburg, Ill.
"Several years ago our clients started off with no CDP and had no real-time protection," says Scott Schimmel, IT director
for Prescient Development.
"If something went wrong, we had to go back to one of our nightly backups. Backups were great, except we needed to find a
solution that would allow us to recover client data real-time in the Microsoft Exchange environment,” says Schimmel. “If a
user lost a file that was created the same day, we wouldn't be able to go to yesterday's backup to find it because it wouldn't
exist.”
“We needed a solution that had CDP capability and would let us recover data from multiple hours to seconds, days to the week
or week to the month.”
Shimmel is using Double-Take’s TimeData to recover Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server files and some NTFS files that are critical
to the operations of their clients.
Prescient Development has about 1,000 users who are benefiting from CDP.
Double-Take Software is busy integrating TimeSpring’s products. Until integration is complete, pricing is not available for
TimeSpring’s TimeData software.
Other Prescient customers eAutoClaims and McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers.
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