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posted on 30 July 2008 14:28

Double-Take Software is buying emBoot, a network booting product company, for $9.6 million.

Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and with 5 employees, emBoot products allow organizations to easily assign and re-assign computing workloads to any available Windows or Linux physical servers or desktops or any virtual machine in their environment, using the iSCSI standard. IT organizations can move those workloads around in a matter of minutes, whether it is because a disaster has occurred, a data center is moving, the company has decided to virtualize its infrastructure or an application needs more capacity.

Double-Take is a replication product company that provides asoftware for recoverability, including continuous data replication, application availability and system state protection. The acquisition follows Double-Take's development of full system protection and recovery technologies as well as the acquisition of CDP recovery with TimeData. These are components of the company's Dynamic Infrastructure Strategy that aims to optimize, protect, monitor and recover workloads on any resource, anywhere and to any point in time.

Dean Goodermote, Double-Take's CEO, said: "We see the market moving toward an increased need to liberate workloads and allow IT administrators the ability to move those workloads to meet business needs. Double-Take Software is building a suite of tools to meet those needs. We expect to continue to expand our product offerings and our addressable markets with additional software-based solutions to optimize customers' most pressing IT infrastructure needs."

^{[Martin Edwards, news writer.]}