Double-Take® Software and RES Software Form Strategic Alliance to Dramatically Improve Desktop Provisioning and Management

Published 8th February 2010

Joint Solution Provides IT Managers with a Desktop Virtualisation Solution To Simplify Management and Ensure Ongoing User Productivity and Satisfaction

Worcester, UK – 8th February 2010 - A new alliance between Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) and RES Software looks to eliminate the headaches of managing desktop infrastructures by delivering an affordable solution that simplifies desktop management and ensures ongoing user productivity and satisfaction. Through this alliance, customers can easily combine Double-Take® Flex and its innovative desktop virtualisation capabilities with the RES PowerFuse User Workspace Management Software to centrally build, manage and control personalised, secure and context-aware user workspaces.

Double-Take Software will resell and provide support for RES PowerFuse User Workspace Management Software to customers as part of the product bundling with Double-Take Flex. The joint offering allows IT professionals to:

• Maintain a single, shared desktop image, which minimises the time and expense of desktop provisioning and management, while increasing desktop control.
• Centrally-manage and deliver secure, personalised, context-aware desktop experiences to any user.
• Upgrade desktop images from a central source without disrupting the user’s unique workspace environments.

In the past, addressing desktop management challenges has typically required a compromise between control, management and user personalisation. As a result, IT managers are either faced with spending additional resources overseeing a more complex environment or end-users experience interruptions in services, impacting the ability of both groups to meet business objectives. By combining Double-Take Flex as a centralised desktop environment and advanced user workspace management capabilities from RES Software, the joint solution solves the industry wide control and management challenges that plague these IT environments.

Ian Masters, UK sales and marketing director for Double-Take Software, commented, “Double-Take Software is focused on providing simple, easy-to-manage workload optimisation software and delivering innovative and useful solutions that drive cost and complexity out of managing all IT workloads, including desktop workloads. This alliance with RES Software provides customers with an easy way to transition their existing desktops to ‘Flextops’ using Double-Take Flex in combination with some of the dynamic workspace management capabilities of RES PowerFuse.”

Ronnie Khan, UK country manager for RES Software, added, “New system complexities continue to challenge desktop management, creating significant drains on IT resources and impacting user access to the tools needed to complete their jobs, both of which put overall business objectives in jeopardy. Through this alliance, we’re working with Double-Take Software to eliminate these challenges. Our joint solution simplifies both desktop provisioning and user workspace management, reducing the amount of resources needed to oversee these environments and ensuring always-on access for end-users.”

Double-Take Flex reduces the time and expense of desktop and server provisioning and management by creating master images which run entirely over the network and can be shared between multiple systems. OS streaming technology allows companies to leverage their existing PC, storage and network infrastructures to create “Flextops” – virtualised desktop PCs with or without local hard disks which run from these centralised images.

RES PowerFuse separates the user workspace from the operating system, RES PowerFuse automates the management, creation and dynamic composition of user workspaces. This is a critical factor in driving user satisfaction and productivity, regardless of delivery platform, and an essential component in dynamically adapting the workspace based on users’ device, time, role or location. As a result, IT professionals have the ability to offer context-aware, secure and centrally managed delivery of applications, printing, data and personalised settings to each end-user.

Links
• Double-Take Software: www.doubletake.com
• Double-Take Flex: http://bit.ly/8Je1dl
• RES Software: www.ressoftware.com
• RES PowerFuse: http://bit.ly/1a6bJM

About Double-Take® Software
Headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, Double-Take® Software (Nasdaq: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. Double-Take Software’s Workload Optimization products that are simple to use and enable IT managers to easily move, protect, recover and more flexibly run critical IT workloads in physical and virtual environments. With its unparalleled partner programs, technical support, and professional services, Double-Take Software is the solution of choice for more than 19,000 customers worldwide, from SMEs to the Fortune 500. Double-Take Software was named a winner of the Best of Tech·Ed 2009 awards program in the System Management and Operations category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine for its Double-Take® Move product. Information about Double-Take Software’s products and services can be found at www.doubletake.com.

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About RES Software
RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, is driving a transformation in the way organisations manage and reduce the cost of their PC populations. The company empowers customers, from SMBs to global enterprises, to manage an increasingly complex desktop ecosystem and meet the essential needs of a dynamic workforce that requires on-demand access to their personalised workspaces. Designed for physical or virtual desktop platforms, RES Software’s award-winning, patented technology enables IT professionals to address this shift by managing, automating and delivering secure, personalised and more productive desktop experiences to any user. For more information, follow updates on Twitter @RES_Software and visit www.ressoftware.com.

Contact:

Ian Masters
Double-Take Software
Tel: +44 (0) 333 1234 200
Email: imasters@doubletake.com

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