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Vision Solutions Delivers Enhancements to iTERA HA and MIMIX HA
Technologies Are Exceptionally Flexible Yet Highly Automated for Companies of All Sizes Using the IBM i Platform
| Source: Vision Solutions
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - April 27, 2009) - Vision Solutions, the foremost high availability and disaster recovery technologies
provider in IBM Power Systems markets, today announced the release of iTERA
HA 6.0 and MIMIX HA 6.0 including advanced autonomics coupled with
full-featured high availability enhancements ensuring outstanding
performance, flexibility and nonstop business continuity.
"Vision Solutions continues to make high availability, disaster recovery
and data management technologies easier and more affordable," says Vision Solutions Chief
Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Alan Arnold. "Our latest
versions of MIMIX HA and iTERA HA underscore this commitment by providing
unprecedented flexibility including improved installation experiences,
enhanced monitoring and more automation capabilities delivering
dramatically simplified configuration, deployment and tuning."
Targeted for the small-to-medium business market but installed in some of
the largest global enterprises, iTERA HA remains one of the most popular HA and DR solutions
for companies using IBM i. The solution's self-managing capabilities
require little in-house expertise and its unique virtual-role-swap
capability (without downtime) allows customers to test and validate their
role-swap readiness easily.
Major new features within iTERA HA 6.0 include:
-- Faster installation experience for many customers. iTERA HA can now
auto-discover libraries, configure the environment, create a journal,
synchronize the data and objects, and automatically start mirroring,
auditing and monitoring.
-- More powerful self-correction. Auto Action Messages allow users to
define and automatically trigger corrective action routines when specific
messages are generated by iTERA HA.
-- Faster resynchronization and audit performance. Enhanced audits provide
deeper examination of objects such as user profiles, directory entries,
configuration (devices, lines and controllers), job schedule entries and
output queues.
"We've noticed a significant improvement with the speed of transactions
going through the system. Error reporting has greatly improved and a much
improved user interface along with more standard function keys has made the
software easier to navigate around and resolve any issues with more speed
and confidence," says Paul Edwards, an IT operations manager for Autologic.
"Overall, I give full marks to Vision for this new version."
"We've found iTERA HA V6 significantly reduces the amount of time spent
monitoring our HA environment," adds MCL Group Ltd's Mark Johnson. "We can
check our role-swap readiness on a single screen and we have a whole new
level of confidence in our HA solution."
MIMIX HA enhancements include:
-- Improved performance through optimization of the apply process providing
even faster replication for large, high transaction environments --
additional performance improvements can also be found in both the
installation process and audit feature.
-- More flexible auditing -- MIMIX HA V6.0 also delivers more flexibility
in the areas of audit scheduling and the audits now check a larger number
of attributes for an even more robust HA environment.
-- Powerful IBM i integration -- the new release also delivers key
integration points with the IBM i environment including MAXOPT3 support for
high transaction environments and integration directly into the IBM
Director Navigator interface allowing a simplified product launching point
for MIMIX HA.
"Having been a MIMIX user for some time, I find the most compelling element
of the new release is how effective the auditing and self-correction have
become," says Barry Parker, an IT security officer at JM Eagle. "This
automation translates into my having to spend very little time managing and
monitoring my HA environment."
These iTERA HA 6.0 and MIMIX 6.0 features are just a few of
the numerous enhancements making it easier for Vision Solutions' customers
to realize the many benefits of high availability. "Both of these upgrades
extend the ease-of-use, flexibility and performance capabilities while
continuing to deliver accurate replication, comprehensive object and data
coverage, advanced autonomics and improved role swap capabilities," adds
Bill Hammond, director of product marketing for Vision Solutions. "And with
last fall's release of ORION Solution HA's version 6.0, we've now completed
major upgrades to our entire suite of high availability products for the
IBM i platform."
For more information, visit www.visionsolutions.com or download a free
independent-study whitepaper about the Importance of High Availability, Continuous Applications and Data
Recovery.
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 business
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 IBM 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 to help our customers achieve their business goals. Privately held
by Thoma Bravo, Inc., Vision Solutions is headquartered in Irvine,
California with offices worldwide. For more information, visit
www.visionsolutions.com or call 800.957.4511.