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Vision Solutions Passes Prestigious Benchmark for AIX on IBM Blades
Affordable HA and DR Solution Supports SMB Market Needs for Availability on Power Systems
| Source: Vision Solutions
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - July 23, 2008) - Vision Solutions, the leading high availability
and disaster recovery solutions provider for IBM Power Systems markets,
today announced an important milestone in its global market roll-out of EchoCluster for AIX by passing compatibility testing
with IBM's BladeCenter JS21 Express and SAN hardware. The validation
benchmark was conducted on hardware at IBM's Shenzhen Power Systems testing
facility in China by team members from both IBM and Vision's AIX
development laboratory near Boston.
"We're pleased to see Vision continually supporting the rapidly growing
mid-market of IBM Power Systems with this latest certification on JS21
Blade Servers," says Liu Hong Bin, manager of Systems & Technology Group
channel enablement, IBM China. "Given the demand, this new combination is
likely to do very well."
Vision Solutions' EchoCluster keeps AIX applications
up and running through continuous server monitoring and immediate,
automated failover to a secondary server, ensuring IBM customers keep
critical applications highly available on local or remote servers. In
support of Vision's goal to offer affordable and innovative disaster
recovery solutions for the SMB marketplace, EchoCluster can be used in
conjunction with EchoStream for data replication with any-point-in-time
Continuous Data Protection (CDP). This combination is an excellent choice
for heterogeneous storage environments resulting from mergers and
acquisitions, offering full ROI on all current hardware.
"We continue to build upon our excellent working relationship with IBM's
Shenzhen test-center team. This recent milestone validates our EchoCluster
and EchoStream solutions are compatible with IBM's BladeCenter and DS3400
storage environments," says Henry Martinez, senior vice president of
engineering for Vision. "Our collaboration allows us to reduce time to
market while increasing product quality, which fills an emerging market
need of solid performance, low-complexity and price-point compatibility on
IBM's Power blades."
With affordable pricing, ease-of-use functionality and an installation
typically measured in days, EchoCluster and EchoStream provide workable solutions
for companies of all sizes.
"Enjoying the safety of nonstop, automated protection of the bank's data in
a highly sensitive production environment saves time, money and labor and
creates ever more trust and confidence for our customers," says Deputy IT
Director for the Russia's Raiffeisenbank and current client, Alexander
Makarov.
Passing the prestigious benchmark further extends Vision Solutions' value
proposition for mid-market customers by supporting EchoCluster and
EchoStream on new IBM platforms such as the BladeCenter, including options
for consolidating and sharing data on compatible platforms such as the IBM
DS3400.
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, Inc. is the
world's leading provider of high availability, disaster recovery and data
management solutions for IBM® Power Systems (i and p platforms). With a
portfolio spanning the industry's most innovative and trusted HA
technologies from iTERA™,
MIMIX® and ORION™ Solutions, 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 i, 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.