Double-Take® Software Offers All-in-One Solution with Double-Take® Flex for High Performance Computing

Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ:DBTK) has announced the availability of Double-Take® Flex for High Performance Computing (HPC), an all-in-one solution for diskless iSCSI booting for Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 storage, bootstrap and boot volume management, allowing companies to virtualise, consolidate, share, and centrally manage HPC compute node boot volumes.

Double-Take Flex for HPC extends Windows HPC Server customers’ investments in iSCSI SAN infrastructure and provides a powerful underlying iSCSI Storage Server tuned especially for sharing HPC nodes’ boot images. It is a comprehensive solution that includes all of the required technology to automate the deployment of hundreds of diskless HPC compute nodes, and includes the iSCSI Service Provider, centrally-managed back-end storage, and boot image management.

Double-Take Flex Product Highlights:

Manageability – Before Double-Take Flex for HPC, customers faced a time-intensive, costly manual process of individually provisioning each boot volume for each HPC compute node. Now customers can create and provision all boot volumes at the same time by sharing a single master boot volume to all compute nodes, while at the same allowing individual nodes to utilise individual differences.
Flexibility – Double-Take Flex for HPC allows for easy, cost-effective re-purposing of compute nodes or additional non-HPC clients for other boot-from-SAN usage. This allows customer to provision desktops for ordinary office tasks during the day and for high performance computing at night.
Reliability – Using hundreds of compute node disks together can be unreliable due to moving parts, but Double-Take Flex for HPC allows users to replace these unreliable hard disks with reliable and centrally managed software-based diskless iSCSI boot capabilities.
Costs – Consolidating disks with Double-Take Flex for HPC eases purchase, power and cooling requirements.
Security – In some HPC environments, disks must be tightly managed. By having fewer disks, companies can significantly improve the manageability of physical disks and therefore provide a greater level of security.

Mutlu Kurtoglu, Group Product Manager, Technical Computing, at Microsoft Corporation commented, “Windows HPC Server 2008 offers world class performance, takes advantage of existing technology investments and skills and makes supercomputing simple to manage and easy to use. Double-Take Flex for HPC brings value to customers, helping them get their work done in smart, efficient ways.”

Steve Marfisi, product manager at Double-Take Software, said “Double-Take Flex for HPC is a one-stop software solution that automates deployment of hundreds of diskless HPC compute nodes It offers customers a complete environment from which to virtualise, share, and centrally manage desktop and server boot volumes.”

About Double-Take® SoftwareHeadquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, Double-Take® Software (Nasdaq:DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable Workload Optimisation 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, regardless of platform or location.This release includes forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by phrases that say Double-Take or its management “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “foresees,” “forecasts,” “estimates” or other words or phrases of similar import. Similarly, statements in this release that describe the Company’s business strategy, outlook, objectives, plans, intentions or goals also are forward-looking statements.

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