IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 21, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Vision Solutions, the industry standard in eServer High Availability solutions, today announced that they have signed an agreement with IBM to distribute their world-class disaster recovery and systems management software with all IBM eServer iSeries operating system, i5/OS. Through this program, evaluation versions of Vision's tools OS Director, OS Data Replication and OS Data Manager will be included with every new and upgrade shipment of i5/OS V5R3 shipped by IBM.
"Vision Solutions has made it easier for iSeries users to manage their systems and data. High availability includes the availability of applications and data, and it also includes protecting a company's data to ensure it's up-to-the minute and useable by employees and customers. IBM and its partners enable iSeries availability as one of the industry's best," said Jim Herring, Director, Product Management and Business Operations IBM eServer iSeries.
"Recent natural events such as Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma have once again demonstrated the business need for disaster recovery solutions to protect applications and information from downtime, both planned and unplanned," said Alan Arnold, President of Vision Solutions. "Vision is happy to work with IBM in providing businesses with the strongest availability and systems-management tools at their fingertips that are designed specifically to meet the high availability requirements of the i5 organization."
The full range of Vision's OS solutions included in this program are:
-- OS Director -- a highly integrated set of tools that automates and proactively manages and helps optimize IBM iSeries systems, databases and application environments.
-- OS Data Replication -- a Disaster Recovery solution targeted at the SMB market that enables files to be backed up while users are online utilizing IBM's advanced Remote Journaling.
-- OS Data Manager -- A user-based tool that automates the modeling, testing, purging and archiving activities for IBM iSeries application environments. These solutions provide SMB organizations with the solutions for disaster recovery, data replication and systems management.
Vision Solutions' award-winning CustomerCare team works directly with customers to provide technical support and assistance for their complete product suite. The company's worldwide team of partners ensures that customers have the local support they need, when they need it.
Vision Solutions has earned IBM's ServerProven status, providing customers with a trusted seal of approval that ensures that the solutions have been successfully implemented in real-world iSeries environments. The company's customers include top Fortune 500 businesses in multiple verticals including finance, manufacturing, distribution and gaming.
For more information on enabling this trial offer, please contact Vision Solutions at (949) 253-6500 or info@visionsolutions.com.
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., 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.