FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Corum Advises emBoot in Acquisition by Double-Take Software
BELLEVUE, Wash., August 26, 2008 Corum Group Ltd. today announced the acquisition of its client, emBoot, Inc., a Canada-based provider of network booting technology, by Double-Take Software (NASDAQ: DBTK). The acquisition supplements Double-Takes full system expertise with solutions to power dynamic and green IT infrastructures.
emBoot provides network boot products that significantly reduce the cost and complexity of administrating servers, desktops, POS terminals and embedded systems, said George Kostiuk, CEO of emBoot. We are excited about joining the Double-Take Software team and contributing to the development of tools that allow our customers to liberate workloads, and reduce hardware and power consumption as they move to a more dynamically managed infrastructure.
The technology acquired with emBoot allows 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.
About emBoot
emBoots iSCSI boot solutions significantly reduce the time, cost, and complexity of deploying and maintaining physical or virtual servers and desktops while also improving system availability and reducing disaster recovery times. New features include support for hardware-independent boot images, shared images with persistence, and direct OS install to iSCSI targets. emBoot is headquartered in Ontario, Canada. For more information, visit http://www.emboot.com
About Double-Take Software
Headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable software for recoverability, including continuous data replication, application availability and system state protection. Double-Take Software products and services enable customers to protect and recover business-critical data and applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint in both 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 ten thousand customers worldwide, from SMEs to the Fortune 500. Information about Double-Take Software's products and services can be found at www.doubletake.com.
About Corum Group
Corum Group Ltd. is the global leader in merger and acquisition services, specializing in serving software and information technology companies worldwide. For nearly 25 years Corum has created the standard for success. With offices in eight countries, Corum has completed over US $6 billion in transactions spanning six continents. Corum also educates the industry with its popular conferences and publishes the most widely distributed IT M&A research. Corums principals are highly experienced former tech CEOs, who are supported by the industrys leading researchers, writers and valuators. The company has spent more than US $20 million to build the worlds largest and most comprehensive buyer database. This knowledge base combined with Corums experience and industry expertise, consistently ensures unequaled success in client engagements. For more information, visit www.corumgroup.com.
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