IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - April 2, 2008) - Vision Solutions, the leading high availability
and disaster recovery solutions provider in IBM Power Systems markets
(
NYSE:
IBM), today announced Norcal Waste Systems, Inc. and their IT team
are realizing a significant return on their
ORION HA and
Vision
Director software investments.
Norcal serves more than 570,000 residential and 55,000 commercial customers
-- business continuity and IT efficiency are critical. The company runs
in-house-developed customer service system, JD Edwards financials and Web
applications on a daily basis. To select the right high availability and
optimization solutions, Norcal turned to Key Information Systems, Inc., an
IBM Premier Business Partner who recommended ORION HA for i5/OS and Vision
Director.
"We chose Vision Solutions' ORION HA software to make sure these vital
systems are up and running much more quickly in the event of a disruption,"
says Oscar Campos, lead operator at Norcal. "And it's great that ORION HA
allows us to pick and choose what we want to replicate."
"We're pleased to see the continuing success of ORION HA in
enterprise-class environments such as Norcal," says Henry Martinez, senior
vice president of engineering for
Vision Solutions. "ORION
continues to be a reliable, go-to product in the industry's most complex,
high-volume transaction rate settings."
Norcal also became aware that optimization could be valuable for its IBM
System i environments. "Before we implemented replication software, we
needed to do some cleaning up, and we saw that an operational tool could
help us do that efficiently," Campos says. "And when we upgraded from JDE
World to OneWorld, we used Vision Director to locate and clean up millions
of deleted records estimated to be worth more than 20 percent of the total
storage -- this fact alone justifies the purchase of the software."
"With Vision Director, I can easily and effectively retrieve information on
what jobs were run at what times and I can see the size of system objects
and libraries," adds Mike McLaughlin, director of operations for Norcal.
"We're saving significant storage space and avoiding problems like latency
issues and application hold-ups."
Norcal replicates data from San Francisco to its site in Vacaville,
California. They have three LPARs on an IBM i550 and recently added a third
partition to their i520 in Vacaville for development. They perform periodic
tests for integrity, reporting success with ORION HA.
Overall,
ORION HA and
Vision
Director have helped Norcal to:
-- reduce storage requirements and costs.
-- increase IT team efficiency and productivity.
-- support effective IT planning for storage space and task management.
-- provide IT system continuity for a business that provides a vital
regional service.
Vision Director helps increase efficiency and productivity for the Norcal
IT team and for its developers. "This allows me to focus on other projects
because I can see the sizes of objects and libraries rapidly on screen
without having to run time-consuming reports," Campos says. "The product is
great and the fact that we recovered 257GB from just one expansion saved us
more than $12,000."
"It's wonderful how much benefit Norcal realized from Vision Director and
it's a story we hear frequently from others installing our products," says
Paul Wade, director of SMB products for Vision Solutions. "Companies are
taking more interest in disk utilization and eliminating inefficient
practices -- a reflection of social trends as well as rising skill costs.
There's a lot of buzz in Systems Management circles about being more green
and less wasteful. Fortunately, Vision Solutions has the experience and
software to help."
"With ORION HA and Vision Director, we're prepared to keep Norcal systems
on line in the event of an emergency -- and even improve our internal
storage space issues on a daily basis," Campos concluded.
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.
Contact Information: CONTACT:
Debbie Madoni Lewis
Phone: 801.541.7769