Security threats aren’t the only thing that can cause your enterprise system to come to a grinding halt. How about an earthquake ?

Stratus Technologies, Inc. announced a new set of application and disaster recovery solutions to protect and rapidly recover business-critical applications from outages, natural disasters, and other disruptive events. Under the terms of a new partner agreement between Double-Take Software and Stratus, these new solutions can be purchased with or without continuously available Stratus ftServer systems and currently include :

Double-Take real-time data replication and failover for Windows

Advanced Server Edition for the Server 2003 Enterprise Edition or the Virtual Systems Edition for VMware and Microsoft virtualization products

Add-on software module for Windows Advanced Server Edition that replicates operating system, applications, and data to an image server for event-driven installation on a recovery server

Double-Take, from Double-Take Software, combines real-time replication and failover technologies to ensure users remain online in case of a failure. Double-Take has no distance limitations, thereby providing failover protection during local and regional failures.

Working with Stratus to help customers achieve and sustain the availability of information systems, Double-Take Software combines multi-level intelligent compression, scheduling and bandwidth throttling to ensure the efficient replication of data across standard LAN/WAN connections.

Because it is hardware and application agnostic, Double-Take is said to enable you to leverage existing investments in systems and connectivity while still achieving your disaster recovery and continuity goals.

In addition to application and disaster recovery solutions, Stratus offers other complementary services including application-recovery configuration and failover/failback testing services ; hosted managed services for data replication, failover, and data vaulting at Stratus-authorized data centers ; and Web-based training for Double-Take for Windows Advanced Server Edition.