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Vision Solutions Enhances Cluster1 to Extend IBM's High Availability and Cluster Management Solutions
Software Solutions Integrated With Latest IBM Technologies Provide Unsurpassed Protection for Data and Critical Business Systems Within Today's Fast-Paced Marketplace
| Source: Vision Solutions
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - March 4, 2008) - Vision Solutions, the leading high availability
and disaster recovery solutions provider in IBM's (NYSE : IBM ) Power Systems
market, today announced significant enhancements to Vision Cluster1, the
company's flagship enterprise cluster management solution for System i.
Developed in close cooperation with IBM, Vision Cluster1 is the industry's first solution to
extend the reach of IBM HASM's (High Availability Solution Manager)
capabilities beyond two-nodes and support advanced IBM technologies such as
Switched Disk, Cross Site Mirroring (Geographic Mirroring as well as IBM's
SAN-based solutions such as Metro Mirroring and Global Mirroring) and
Cluster Services. Cluster1 integrates these advanced IBM technologies with
Logical Replication solutions to provide true enterprise class high
availability and disaster recovery protection.
"Built on a close development relationship with IBM, these fault-tolerant
solutions extend IBM's latest technologies with Vision's award-winning
software," says Vision Solutions' Executive Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer, Alan Arnold. "This collaboration and bundled offering
sets a new precedence of flexibility and fault tolerance within our
industry, protecting the most demanding high availability environments with
built-in autonomics and relative simplicity."
Vision Cluster1 provides enhanced monitoring and
autonomic capabilities that enable customers to more easily manage complex
enterprise environments and meet aggressive RTOs and RPOs. When bundled
with Vision's logical replication solutions, customers will benefit from an
improved level of protection. Vision Cluster1 includes one-button switch
capabilities that work with or without a logical replication solution.
Vision's certified service providers can greatly simplify the deployment of
complex cluster topologies. Our service providers will ensure that your
solution is deployed more efficiently and with less downtime risk. Cluster1
is also backed by certified 24/7 service and support; these integrated
offerings keep the world's most valuable System i environments highly
available.
As both a Vision Solutions and IBM customer, Cabela's has an extensive high
availability environment deployed across numerous systems. They utilize
Vision's Cluster1 to simplify monitoring, management and control of their
24/7 environment. "Vision Solutions and IBM are vital to our High
Availability plan," says Cabela's Senior Information Systems Specialist,
Steve Treinen. "We have been extremely happy with the product as it has
matured to handle systems of our size."
Market requirements for these integrated solutions have been established by
a growing list of customers implementing IBM and Vision's integrated
availability solutions. These offerings are capable of delivering the level
of usability, flexibility and fault tolerance required by many of today's
competing businesses.
"IBM continues to find value in the investment and support that Vision
Solutions brings to our business and mutual customers," said Scott Handy,
vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Strategy, IBM Power Systems. "We
have enjoyed a long, collaborative relationship with Vision."
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, Inc. is the
world's leading provider of high availability, disaster recovery and data
management solutions for IBM® System i and System p platforms. 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.