New Webcast to Highlight Vision Solutions' Director Technology

Maximize Productivity With This Advanced Systems Management Technology for IBM System i


IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - February 19, 2008) - Vision Solutions, the leading high availability (HA) solution provider in the IBM (NYSE: IBM), System i and System p markets, is sponsoring an upcoming technical seminar highlighting Vision Director -- a state-of-the-art systems management solution. The live webcast will be held on Thursday, February 28 at 11am Eastern.

"Vision Director brings performance and automation technologies that are vital for maintaining IT systems," says Vision Solutions Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President Alan Arnold. "It's being compared to a System i mission control with a highly integrated set of applications to proactively and expertly automate the monitoring, management and optimization of servers, databases and application environments."

Major Vision Director features include:

--  System Health Reports with graphical charts to increase productivity
    significantly by presenting easy-to-understand views of a system's health
    
--  Advanced Reporting that expands the level and detail of system
    information with more than 60 new GUI-based reports providing sorting of
    every column, column filter and row; download to xml and spreadsheet;
    charts; explanatory text and more
    
--  Dynamic monitoring of objects that leverages technology from HA
    solutions to keep object cross-reference information automatically current
    
--  Change analysis which allows users to group libraries into multiple
    domains and report/monitor growth across these domains
    

"It is a great advantage that when Vision Director creates reports, it actually actively does something about issues automatically," says Raymond Hammell, Vision solutions architect and webcast presenter. "This technology is setting new standards within the industry and allows companies of all sizes to realize significant improvements in overall high availability performance."

The February 28 webcast attendees will learn how to:

--  reclaim and proactively manage DASD
--  improve application performance
--  reduce planned downtime
--  improve high availability and disaster recovery
    

"In addition to highlighting challenges in today's IT environment, Vision will provide examples of how customers are using this product while leveraging autonomic computing fundamentals to reduce the need for human intervention and improve overall system efficiencies," says Therese Hong, product marketing manager for Vision Solutions. Therese will also speak at the event.

To learn more about the wealth of system management and optimization functionality Vision Director provides, tune in to the February 28 webcast. For more information, register today for the live event and download this free executive overview of System i Management Best Practices.

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 server 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 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 (NYSE: IBM), 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.

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