``eLiza'' Partnership Highlights Vision Solutions' Path to ORION; Live Coordinated Failover Demonstrated in IBM's Booth at LinuxWorld.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers LinuxWorld San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 2002 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2002 Vision Solutions, a leading managed availability solutions provider, today announced it is a partner in IBM's eLiza Program. One of only 15 participants worldwide, Vision Solutions has shown its commitment to self-managing technologies in a heterogeneous environment Using hardware and system software from different vendors. Organizations often use computers, operating systems and databases from a variety of vendors. Contrast with homogeneous environment. with its new solution offering ORION being demonstrated at LinuxWorld. As a partner in IBM's eLiza Program, Vision Solutions will assist IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) in building awareness for self-managing systems and promoting innovation in the open systems solutions area. Vision Solutions' ORION is the first solution of its kind, offering enterprise-wide, multi-platform managed availability. LinuxWorld is Vision Solutions' first appearance since becoming an eLiza partner. The company will conduct live demonstrations of ORION featuring coordinated system failovers on both Linux and iSeries servers in IBM's booth (#1047) through the end of the show. "Vision Solutions first previewed ORION in January of this year and since that time we have seen a rush of interest and demand for the solution," said David Wegman, executive vice president of Vision Solutions. "We are at the heart of something completely unique in the market and that makes Vision Solutions an exciting place to be right now. Other companies have announced single-platform system failover capabilities, but it is multi-platform managed availability that is in demand." The market for managed availability solutions continues to demand increased levels of reliability and availability from providers. These requirements have recently focused on a demand for multi-platform solutions for both data and applications. Vision Solutions has been at the forefront of this evolution for more than a year, preparing to launch ORION. "Vision Solutions is poised to revolutionize the industry with ORION," said Alan Arnold, president and COO of Vision Solutions. "With the ongoing commitment of our partners, and through important initiatives such as IBM's eLiza Program, Vision Solutions will remain at the forefront of innovation, building the best solutions to give an enterprise unfettered access to its mission-critical information." About Vision Solutions Vision Solutions has headquarters in Irvine, Calif., and provides solutions for assuring the availability of a company's mission-critical applications and data. With more than 1,800 customers and 4,300 installations in more than 70 countries, the company is a leading managed availability vendor for the IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. iSeries (AS/400) with solutions for virtually every industry. Vision Suite(TM) is a widely deployed and recommended software solution for managed availability for the iSeries. Symbiator(R) integrates an enterprise by providing real-time information how you want it, where you want it, when you want it. The company provides extensive professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , worldwide support and education to a global market. Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner and an IBM Premier High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. Business Partner. The company maintains strategic alliances with industry-leading application and database companies including J.D. Edwards (J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO, www.jdedwards.com) A developer of multinational, integrated enterprise software for distribution, finance, human resources, manufacturing and supply chain management. , Misys, IBS IBS Irritable bowel syndrome, see there , Intentia, Microsoft, and Oracle. Vision Solutions is a member of the publicly traded IDION group of companies (JSE JSE See: Johannesburg Stock Exchange :IDI IDI ICC (International Cricket Conference) Development International Conference) IDI Israel Democracy Institute IDI I Doubt It IDI Initial Domain Identifier IDI In-Depth Interview ). For more information on Vision Solutions, visit the company's Web site at www.visionsolutions.com. |
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