Double-Take Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) products and services enable customers to protect and recover computer files. Its software helps users to reduce or eliminate data loss and recover applications, through automatic or manual means. Customers include law firms, financial institutions, hospitals, school districts and government entities. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are among the firm's strategic partners. EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) are major competitors.

The company surprised the Street last week, when it reported Q1 EPS of 13 cents and revenues of $23 million. Analysts had been looking for 11 cents and $22.2 million. Management also guided Q2 EPS to 15-16 cents (14 cent consensus), Q2 revenues to $24.4-$25 million ($24.44M consensus), FY08 EPS to 65-67 cents (65 cent consensus) and FY08 revenues to $101.7-$103.5 million ($102.29M consensus).

Most businesses, educational institutions and government agencies have come to the point that they could not operate effectively without their sophisticated information technology systems. There is an outfit in Southboro, Massachusetts that is getting an increasingly bigger share of the growing IT security pie.

Double-Take Software's (NASDAQ: DBTK) products and services enable customers to protect and recover computer files. Its software reduces, or eliminates, data loss and provides the ability to recover the application and server needed to utilize the data through automatic, or manually initiated failover. Customers include law firms, financial institutions, hospitals, school districts and government entities. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Qwest Communications International (NYSE: Q) are among the firm's strategic partners. Major competitors include EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC)

The company surprised the Street late last month, when it reported Q1 EPS of 14 cents and revenues of $17.9 million. Analysts had been looking for 7 cents and $17.2 million. Management also guided Q2 EPS to 15-16 cents (8 cent consensus), Q2 revenues to $19.0-$19.5 million ($18.6M consensus), FY07 EPS to 56-62 cents (41 cent consensus) and FY07 revenues to $78.5-$80.5 million ($79.38M consensus). The CEO remarked, "Especially pleasing was the continued expansion of our international business, the continued additional sales of our products within our large installed base and the continued growth of our partner program".