IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Vision Solutions, the industry standard in eServer High Availability, today announced that an agreement has been reached to acquire the business of UK-based OS Solutions, a leading provider of advanced systems management, disk and data optimization and SMB High Availability for the iSeries market.
This is a strategic acquisition for Vision that adds highly complementary new products based on leading edge technology as well as new channels of distribution for Vision. The combined companies will share more than 2,200 customers and leverage their respective unique technologies and channel partnerships to offer the most complete and cost-effective availability solutions currently in the market. The new solution line up will extend Vision's industry leading ORION(tm) solution offerings with a new, pure remote journaling based high availability offering as well as market-proven tools and solutions to better manage data and disk resources, optimize system performance and manage archiving and database reorganizations; functionality which is critical to any enterprise. No other vendor can deliver such a complete solution set offering autonomic functionality integrated into high availability.
"The HA market continues to evolve and new requirements have developed to more carefully preserve data, increase performance and maximize system resources while keeping them highly available," said Nicolaas Vlok, CEO of Vision Solutions. "Vision has been building solutions with this specific design in mind and the acquisition of OS Solutions rapidly advances our work and makes possible the integration of systems optimization and data management with high availability. The result will change the way companies think about and manage their high availability environments in an on demand computing world."
The OS Solutions family of products is a highly integrated suite of data and systems management solutions for the IBM iSeries platform and include :
OS Director - a systems optimization and performance tool that provides an extensive range of functionality for monitoring, managing and optimizing an iSeries machine including object management and optimization; automated job and user tracking; complete cross reference including IFS with full forecast action control and action history. The result is greatly improved operations and planning with faster response times and cleaner, quicker disaster recovery.
OSD Data Manager - a data management and archiving tool that allows users to maximize application performance through managing the database and active archives. This function is unique to OS Solutions and had been adopted by leading application users worldwide.
OSD High Availability - a pure remote journaling high availability solution built on IBM technology and the 8 pillars of autonomic computing. This full featured product includes data and object replication utilizing a highly optimized multi-apply process. The product leverages the OS Director tools to optimize the data and objects so replication is streamlined and recovery is far faster than any other solution.
"By implementing the new technologies, customers will experience significant performance gains in disk and application function as well as optimize their core HA solutions to run cleaner, faster and with fewer issues" said Mike Ryan, CEO of OS Solutions. "There is also the benefit of integration with ORION and its multi-platform solution set. Customers now have more options and a clear roadmap for growth from simple data replication through the most advanced high availability solutions in the market; all from one vendor."
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, headquartered in Irvine, CA, is the industry standard in eServer High Availability providing software, services and support solutions for managing a company's mission-critical applications and data. With more than 1,850 customers and 11,000 licenses around the world, the company works closely with a worldwide network of channel partners supporting virtually every industry with its world-class solutions: Visualize(tm), Vision Suite(r), ORION(tm) and ORION Integrator. Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner and an IBM High Availability Business Partner. Vision Solutions is a member of the publicly traded IDION group of companies (JSE: IDI). For more information on Vision Solutions, please visit the company's website at www.visionsolutions.com.
About OS Solutions
OS Solutions, based in the United Kingdom, is a leader in Remote Journaling High Availability and advanced Systems and Data Management tools and utilities for the IBM eServer iSeries providing sophisticated software, services and support across industry segments and applications. The Company has more than 370 customers worldwide using its industry leading, highly integrated family of products including OS Director, a systems optimization and data management solution; OSD-Data Manager, an advanced archiving and data management solution and OSD-High Availability, a state of the art, pure remote journaling based solution for iSeries high availability.
OS Solutions is an IBM Business Partner and IBM Partner in Development.