IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 16, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Vision Solutions, the industry standard in eServer High Availability, has released an industry white paper focused on the company's multi-platform information availability solution, ORION(tm), as a crucial component in meeting escalating availability needs for IBM On Demand Banking Environments.
The demand for 24/7 access and up-to-the-minute accuracy in account data has driven banks to a "zero tolerance" for downtime -- both planned and unplanned. Consequently, on demand banking requires never-fail systems. Vision's ORION, which provides a variety of solutions for managing availability requirements across most of the platforms typically in use in banks, provides these never-fail capabilities with a level of scalability that ensures that ORION will meet banks' needs not just today, but in the future.
"This white paper demonstrates why ORION, the industry's first multi-platform information availability solution, is well placed to address both planned and unplanned downtime issues and thus meets the banking industry's need for appropriately managed availability across their data and application portfolio and diverse computing platforms," said David Wegman, executive vice president of marketing for Vision Solutions.
"With the ever increasing regulatory focus on secure and properly managed financial data, it is imperative for a financial institution to first have a solid foundation on the availability and continuity of transactional data-flow," said David Kelsheimer, senior consulting manager for Vision Solutions. "With this critical core element in place, a bank can then leverage the full business value of appropriate frameworks in order to maintain positive control and management of its confidential and regulated information. It's not a competitive advantage anymore; it's a mission-critical requirement."
IBM's on demand banking strategies promote diversity of computing platforms and encourage "componentized" application design, allowing banks to deliver best-in-class performance for each component. More than 16,000 banks worldwide use IBM eServer iSeries or i5 servers. However, few if any of those banks use iSeries or i5 exclusively. Often they integrate iSeries or i5 with Windows, UNIX and Linux servers in a heterogeneous environment. ORION's multiplatform support and componentized architecture make it a perfect match with IBM's hardware for a solid banking availability solution.
This white paper, in addition to detailing the benefits of ORION, details the costs of downtime to a bank. When coupled with the cost savings such as scalability and training that ORION's multiplatform infrastructure provides, the business case for ORION in an On Demand banking environment is quite clear. As IDC stated in its white paper, "Vision Solutions ORION: An Information Availability Foundation for Dynamic IT" which was published in 2005, ". . .organizations whose IT infrastructures are based upon IBM's AIX, OS/400 or i5; Microsoft's Windows; or Linux from either Red Hat or SUSE should consider Vision Solutions' ORION when requirements include a reliable way to ensure that critical data is always available as well as easily manageable. . ."
The white paper can be viewed and downloaded at www.visionsolutions.com/BCSS.
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 2,000 customers and 12,000 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), ORION Integrator, OS Director and OS Data Manager. 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.