Friday, 11 January 2008

Vision Solutions and IBM Collaborate to Provide Enterprise-Class High Availability and Cluster Management Solutions

Vision Solutions, a leading high availability and disaster recovery solutions provider in the IBM(R) System i(TM) and System p(TM) markets has said that it is extending its business continuity solutions and services through collaborations with IBM.

As a result, many enterprise customers are can benefit from enhanced cluster management, replication and monitoring capabilities that protect their business.

"IBM and Vision Solutions are working collaboratively to combine the strengths of IBM's cluster services with Vision Solutions' offerings," says Vision's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Alan Arnold.

"Our integrated offerings represent the future for System i customers."

Vision Solutions and IBM believe they are delivering the next generation of availability solutions by combining IBM's cluster services capabilities and XSM-based solutions (such as Geographic Mirroring, Global Mirroring and Metro Mirroring) with Vision's high availability and cluster-management-based solutions. Vision and IBM's bundled offerings are protecting System i and related investments by meeting enterprise-class availability and disaster recovery standards with enhanced levels of flexibility, fault tolerance and push-button ease.

Integrating IBM's cluster services with Vision Solutions' products results in new levels of flexibility and fault tolerance to meet the highest availability demands, while providing outstanding levels of monitoring and management.

"This not only makes the most complex implementations easy to monitor, it also ensures systems are protected with built-in autonomics," adds Arnold.

"IBM is delighted to have the investment and support Vision Solutions brings to our business and customers. Simply put: we value our collaborative, long-standing relationship with this outstanding organization," says Jim Herring, director, high end power systems, IBM Systems and Technology Group.