Double-Take® Software and RES Software Form Alliance to Improve Desktop Provisioning and Management
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-TakeŽ 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-TakeŽ 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.
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About Double-TakeŽ Software
Headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, Double-TakeŽ
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 TechˇEd 2009 awards program in the
System Management and Operations category by Penton
Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL
Server Magazine for its Double-TakeŽ 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
Double-Take Press Contacts:
Mark Kember / Carolann Bara
Goode International
Tel: +44 (0) 1491 873 323
Email: mark.kember@goode.co.uk /
carolann.bara@goode.co.uk
