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Vision Solutions Announces Distribution Agreement With IBM
Technology and Distribution Initiatives Strengthen Relationship Between IBM and Vision Solutions as They Continue to Provide Unsurpassed Business Resiliency Solutions for Customers
| Source: Vision Solutions
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - October 1, 2008) - Vision Solutions, a leading high availability
and disaster recovery solutions provider in IBM Power Systems markets,
today announced a worldwide distribution agreement with IBM (NYSE : IBM )
designed to benefit partners and customers. Effective immediately, IBM will
begin distributing Vision Cluster1™ as a flagship
enterprise cluster management solution for the IBM i operating system.
"With ever-growing collaboration, both companies have agreed to share
intellectual property, further integrate technologies and align
distribution resources more closely," says Vision Solutions' President and
CEO, Nicolaas Vlok. "We continue to innovate with IBM to embrace and extend
technologies throughout the world, enabling partners to bring improved
availability solutions to customers of all sizes."
Today's announcement includes elements designed to enhance the customer
experience as IBM and Vision continue to work aggressively from their
respective R&D labs to deliver the next generation of integrated high
availability and disaster recovery solutions for mid-market to enterprise
customers. Vision Solutions
has one of the largest IBM Power Systems support infrastructures in the
world, providing 24/7 customer service to more than 7,000 customers. IBM
and Vision Solutions are aligning their channels to provide unparalleled
market coverage and service to customers. For instance, Vision partners are
now able to purchase Cluster1 and IBM's PowerHA for i from Vision Solutions
or IBM, whichever is easiest.
Developed in close cooperation with IBM, Vision Cluster1 extends IBM
PowerHA capabilities and adds enhanced monitoring and management
capabilities that support IBM technologies such as Switched Disk, Cross
Site Mirroring and Cluster Services. Cluster1 integrates these IBM
technologies with Logical Replication solutions to provide true
enterprise-class high availability and disaster recovery protection.
"Too many customers struggle to attain required levels of availability
demanded by today's marketplace," says Ross Mauri, general manager of IBM
Power Systems. "With this announcement, IBM now brings an even more robust
solution to our partners and customers. Our relationship with Vision is
long-standing and continues to prove beneficial for both companies. This
agreement will make it easier for companies of all sizes to obtain
market-leading availability solutions to fit their unique needs."
"This announcement is welcome news for IBM partners who want to simplify
the deployment of business resiliency solutions on Power Systems," says Joe
Mertens, president of Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc., an IBM and Vision
Solutions business partner. "Customers are the ultimate beneficiaries of
offerings that are better integrated and more easily acquired and
implemented, and then supported by the leading high availability and
disaster recovery solutions provider in IBM Power Systems markets."
Vision Cluster1 provides enhanced monitoring and
autonomic capabilities that enable customers to more easily manage complex
enterprise environments and meet aggressive RTOs and RPOs. When bundled
with Vision's logical replication solutions, customers will benefit from an
improved level of protection. Vision Cluster1 includes one-button switch
capabilities that work with or without a logical replication solution.
Vision's certified service providers can greatly simplify the deployment of
complex cluster topologies to ensure solutions are deployed more
efficiently and with less downtime risk. Cluster1 is also backed by 24/7
certified support -- these integrated offerings keep the world's most
valuable IBM i environments highly available.
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, Inc. is a
leading global provider of high availability, disaster recovery and data
management solutions for IBM® Power Systems. 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.