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Vision Solutions and IBM Collaborate to Provide Enterprise-Class High Availability and Cluster Management Solutions
Powerful Combination Breaks New Boundaries to Protect Prescription Solutions' Systems
| Source: Vision Solutions
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2008) - Vision Solutions, the leading high availability
and disaster recovery solutions provider in the IBM® System i™ and
System p™ markets, today announced it is extending its business
continuity solutions and services through collaborations with IBM. As a
result, many enterprise customers are benefiting from enhanced cluster
management, replication and monitoring capabilities that protect their
business.
"IBM and Vision Solutions are working collaboratively to combine the
strengths of IBM's cluster services with Vision Solutions' offerings," says
Vision's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Alan
Arnold. "Our integrated offerings represent the future for System i
customers."
Integrating IBM's cluster services with Vision Solutions' products results in new levels of
flexibility and fault tolerance to meet the highest availability demands,
while providing outstanding levels of monitoring and management. "This not
only makes the most complex implementations easy to monitor, it also
ensures systems are protected with built-in autonomics," adds Arnold.
"IBM is delighted to have the investment and support Vision Solutions
brings to our business and customers. Simply put: we value our
collaborative, long-standing relationship with this outstanding
organization," says Jim Herring, director, high end power systems, IBM
Systems and Technology Group. "Customers and partners expect this level of
collaboration and we are pleased to provide it."
Vision is IBM's only Premier Business Partner in high availability. The
Company's solutions that utilize IBM's cluster services technology are
being deployed daily to enterprise customers. These solutions are capable
of delivering the level of usability, flexibility and fault tolerance
required by many enterprise class customers.
Prescription Solutions, a leader in the pharmacy benefit management
industry, promotes the appropriate use of prescription medications to
improve clinical quality and total patient care, thereby helping its
clients and members improve outcomes while managing overall healthcare
costs.
To protect its vital systems, this quality conscious company relies on
Vision's high availability and cluster management solutions, which work in
concert with IBM's switched disk, cross site mirroring and cluster
services. The Vision-IBM solution is easy to manage and enables
substantially faster switch times.
"MIMIX has greatly enhanced and simplified the switch process for our
three-node installation," say customers Ron Yohe and Reid Parker, both
senior systems analysts for Prescription Solutions.
Vision Solutions and IBM are
delivering the next generation of availability solutions by combining IBM's
cluster services capabilities and XSM-based solutions (such as Geographic
Mirroring, Global Mirroring and Metro Mirroring) with Vision's high
availability and cluster-management-based solutions. Vision and IBM's
bundled offerings are protecting System i and related investments by
meeting enterprise-class availability and disaster recovery standards with
enhanced levels of flexibility, fault tolerance and push-button ease.
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, Inc. is the
world's leading provider of high availability, disaster recovery and data
management solutions for the IBM® System i and System p markets. With a
portfolio spanning the industry's most innovative and trusted HA solutions
from ORION™, MIMIX® and iTERA™
brands, Vision keeps critical businesses information continuously protected
and available. Affordable and easy to use, Vision products help to ensure
business continuity, increase productivity, reduce operating costs and
satisfy compliance requirements. Vision also offers advanced cluster
management and systems management solutions, and support for i5/OS®,
Windows®, and AIX® operating environments. As IBM's largest high
availability Premier Business Partner, Vision Solutions oversees a global
network of business partners and services and support professionals to help
our customers achieve their business goals. Privately held by Thoma Cressey
Bravo, Inc., Vision Solutions is headquartered in Irvine, California with
offices worldwide. For more information visit www.visionsolutions.com or
call 800.957.4511.