"Our servers can't go down," he says. "If we had a failure, we'd go out of business. It would be in the paper. That's why we're triple redundant. Those calls have to go out."
Emergency Communications replicates data between servers in Orlando, Atlanta, and Newark, New Jersey, and VanOpdorp says he's looking to add another on the West Coast. He recently upgraded his Orlando server to 64-bit Windows, and he says Double-Take couldn't promise 64-bit support for another nine months.
"I'll implement XOsoft automatic failover and notification capabilities. I use a monitoring program to monitor servers and page an on-call person if something goes down. Double Take would lock up. I wouldn't know until I checked it, and I had to be constantly checking it. Problems are going to happen, and if they happen I want to know."
AIP has a failover site in Garden City, N.Y., but will eventually move it out of state. But hes more concerned with the local replication that he gets from CDP than remote replication.
Most failures happen locally, he says. If a problem happens locally, I can roll back [with Kashyas CDP]. Remote replication is great for a real big disaster, but local is probably more important than remote. Now Im able to take that local copy, and mount it on a backup server while Im still backing up using Sepaton.
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