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County Government Safeguards Public IT Systems With Vision Solutions' Technology
Near Real-Time Server Replication and Automated Failover Keep County's Agencies on Duty 24/7
| Source: Vision Solutions
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - February 3, 2010) - Vision Solutions, a leading high availability and disaster recovery solutions
provider for IBM Power Systems (NYSE : IBM ), announces Skagit County
Government in Mount Vernon, Wash. safeguards its public safety systems with
Vision Solutions' EchoStream and EchoCluster high availability and disaster recovery
technology.
More than 400 users, including all of Skagit County's law enforcement
agencies, its jail and 911 centers rely on a bullet-proof public safety
system. Continuous system and database availability is critical for the
county, and downtime is simply not an option during life-or-death
circumstances.
Previous downtime experiences led county IT leaders to search for a high
availability solution to assure uptime, protect the system and address the
application performance challenges caused when backup jobs ran on the
production system. Mainline Information Systems, an award-winning
information technology supplier, suggested Vision Solutions' replication
and clustering technologies for AIX -- a fundamental reason the county
switched to the AIX operating system and IBM hardware.
"Vision's EchoStream for AIX and EchoCluster for AIX are exactly what we
needed. They gave us all of the features and functions we wanted," Ryan
Johns, network engineer for Skagit County Government, says. "And the fact
that I was able to install them myself, it's amazing how simple it was."
Skagit County relies on EchoStream's RightTime CDP true continuous data protection to
deliver nearly instantaneous recovery of applications and data at the push
of a button. Unlike traditional backup solutions, EchoStream enables the
recovery of data from any point in time, easily and rapidly.
"With EchoStream's TimeView, you can create a fully interactive temporary
copy of all or part of your database, in its current state or from almost
any point back in time," adds Doug Piper, vice president of product
strategy for Vision Solutions. "This means you can quickly have a safe,
separate, fully accurate and fully functional test environment. When you're
done, simply exit TimeView, without any worry about the integrity of your
production data. It's an incredible feature, and it's so easy to use."
In addition to the peace of mind from a fully redundant server and rapid
failover capabilities for its public safety system, Skagit County realized
a number of other benefits, such as increased performance by offloading
some processing to the backup system.
To learn more about Vision Solutions high availability,
disaster recovery and data management solutions, call +1 800.957.4511 or
visit www.visionsolutions.com. To watch a video interview with Ryan Johns
of Skagit County, click here and be sure to download the white
paper
Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments.
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, Inc. is the
world's leading provider of high availability, disaster recovery and
systems/data management solutions for IBM® Power Systems. With a
portfolio spanning industry's most innovative and trusted HA technologies
from iTERA™, MIMIX® and ORION Solutions™, Vision keeps critical business
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 along with support for IBM i, Windows, and AIX operating
environments. As IBM's largest high availability Premier Business Partner
(NYSE: IBM), Vision
Solutions oversees a global network of partners and professionals to help
customers achieve business goals. Vision Solutions publishes the quarterly e-book Business
Continuity Today outlining current issues and best practices. Privately
held by Thoma Bravo, Inc., Vision Solutions is headquartered in Irvine,
California with offices worldwide. For more information, visit
www.visionsolutions.com or call 800.957.4511.