IRVINE, Calif., July 11, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Vision Solutions, the industry standard in eServer High Availability, today announced the release of ORION for AIX; an extension of the ORION family of products that provides switched disk solution topology for UNIX applications running on IBM's AIX operating system. ORION for AIX supports AIX based applications on IBM pSeries servers and is the only solution in the market to support AIX on an IBM iSeries hosted partition.
Built on a highly autonomic architecture and advanced clustering, ORION for AIX is designed to deliver application High Availability between two or more servers connected to a common storage tower or storage sub-system; supporting both iASP and SCSI data storage. In the event of an application or server failure, ORION for AIX fails over the production server to a backup server maintaining uninterrupted application functionality and the highest degree of data integrity. Targeted at the SMB market, businesses will see immediate benefits from the solution's ease of use, streamlined management and low cost of ownership.
"The SMB marketplace has requirements that begin and end with high functionality, ease of use and value pricing," said Vision Solutions President and COO, Alan Arnold. "Most high availability software products for AIX are more complicated and complex to manage than the SMB customer will allow. We built ORION for AIX with this customer in mind by offering solid functionality and service with ease of use. All of these benefits are offered within the value parameters of the market."
ORION for AIX is part of the ORION family of products. These are a tightly integrated set of availability solutions for the IBM eServer supporting i5OS, Windows, Linux and AIX through common infrastructure and common interface. ORION delivers the ability to manage multiple platforms, applications and databases through a common user interface. Benefits are realized in minimizing training and operating expenses associated with multiple solutions and improving cost of ownership and ROI.
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.