Aldon Computer Group and Vision Solutions Inc. Announce Partnership to Provide Secure High Availability.Business Editors IRVINE Irvine, town, Scotland Irvine (ûr`vĭn), town (1991 pop. 32,507), North Ayrshire, SW Scotland, on the Irvine River estuary. Industries include iron and brass foundries. Other products are chemicals, electric goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000 Vision Solutions Inc. ("Vision"), a global leader in the development and marketing of Information Availability Management Solutions, Monday Monday: see week. announced a partnership with Oakland Oakland, city (1990 pop. 372,242), seat of Alameda co., W Calif., on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1852. Together with San Francisco and San Jose, the city comprises the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States. , Calif.-based Aldon Computer Group, ("Aldon"), a leading provider of Software Change Management tools for numerous mid-range platforms, including the 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) AS/400. In concert, the products from Vision and Aldon provide IT shops and software developers with a highly available development platform with powerful change management tools for the software development and maintenance process. Although master software code is typically housed in one location, much of today's coding is performed over LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and WAN networks, or the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Co-ordinating software development between many individual programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists is a complicated matter and is critical to the overall quality and efficiency of the project. Added to the complexity is the fact that many programmers are not only separated by geographic boundaries, but also by different time zones. This requires programmers to be able to access servers housing the code 24X7. To achieve continuous, around the clock, access requires a reliable 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. solution. As two of the leaders in their respective markets, the Aldon/CMS and Vision Suite provide a highly available, change management solution ideally focussed to multi site/time zone AS/400 software development teams. "Aldon/CMS is the change management solution of choice for many of the world's largest software developers, and Aldon is committed to seeking partnerships with other organizations that can bring additional value to our users. With global software development, on individual projects, becoming more prevalent, Aldon recognizes that Aldon/CMS users on the IBM AS/400 platform need to consider a quality High Availability solution. As a leading provider of High Availability, Vision Solutions was an obvious choice and we are very excited to partner with them," said Daniel Magid, president of Aldon. "As a leading developer of cutting edge software solutions, we immediately recognized the quality and commitment behind Aldon and Aldon/CMS. We believe the synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. between the two companies and its products will provide a solid foundation for AS/400 application development -- a quality change management system running on highly available servers," said Nicolaas Vlok, chief executive officer of Vision Solutions. About Aldon/CMS Aldon/CMS manages 4 key functional areas of software development. Version Control manages multiple versions of an application in development simultaneously. Network Management automates the distribution and installation of the software across a network. Project Management automates the project tracking process electronically through messaging. Finally, Aldon/CMS' User Request Management maintains communications between the IS department and end users, aiding the management, evaluation and assignment of resources for each request. About Vision Suite Vision Suite uses proprietary replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. and data transportation technology to facilitate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (24x7) operations. This enables continuous access to information for mission-critical applications and systems and eliminates business interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. due to planned or unplanned system outages. Vision Suite high availability products and services are a requirement for businesses subject to financial and operational hardship when computing computing - computer operations are not available 24x7. About Aldon Computer Group With a worldwide distribution network and more than 5,000 client companies in more than 40 countries, Aldon has grown to be one of the largest suppliers of software tools in the AS/400 marketplace. Aldon combines the stability and development muscle of a large, growing software provider with the flexibility and focus on the customer engendered by its "family company" roots. This continuous focus has enabled Aldon to maintain its reputation as the company that "provides the finest customer service in the industry." Aldon can be found at www.aldon.com and can be reached via email at info@aldon.com. About Vision Solutions Inc. Founded in 1990, Vision Solutions Inc., is a global leader in the development and marketing of Information Availability Management Solutions. These solutions include Continuous Availability (Clustering), High Availability, Managed Availability, data protection and data replication. Vision's innovative products are used to maintain the integrity and accuracy of data in a wide variety of industries such as banking/finance, government/education, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , transportation, and gaming. Vision can be found on the Internet at www.visionsolutions.com and can be reached via email at info@visionsolutions.com. It is a member of the IDION group of companies. |
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