Vision Solutions Announces Three-City Seminar Series with IBM; Norcal Waste and Unicco to Share Benefits of Vision Director System i Management Solution.

IRVINE, Calif. -- Vision Solutions, a leading high availability (HA) solution provider to the Global 5000, today announced a three-city seminar series targeted to corporate IT professionals currently using the IBM System i platform, as well as those considering the System i. The series, titled "Improve the ROI of Your System i," begins in Costa Mesa, California, on September 7 and travels to Chicago on September 8 and Waltham, Massachusetts, on September 14.

Held in conjunction with IBM, the seminars are intended to provide insights into improving System i performance while reducing management time. The seminars will also present an overview of the Vision Solutions Director solution for users who are implementing or would like to optimize an existing disaster recovery/HA environment.

Mike McLaughlin, director of operations for industry leader Norcal Waste, will participate in the September 7 seminar. Don Copson of Unicco Inc. will be featured at the September 8 and 14 events. Unicco is one of North America's top integrated facilities services companies.

Vision and IBM will also discuss new IBM System i Capacity Backup Editions (CBU) and supporting ORION for CBU and Director for CBU software offerings from Vision.

For more information and to register for any one of the seminars, visit www.visionsolutions.com and click on the Events section.

About Vision Solutions

Vision Solutions, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., is a leading high availability solution provider to the Global 5000. For more than 16 years Vision Solutions has achieved recognition and earned the respect of technologists and business leaders around the globe as an IBM Premier Business Partner and an IBM High Availability Business Partner, and together with IBM has pioneered such technology innovations as remote journaling and clustering. With more than 2,000 customers and 12,000 licenses worldwide, the company works closely with a worldwide network of channel partners and IBM to deliver its industry-leading ORION(TM) software, services and support for protecting mission-critical applications and information from planned and unplanned downtime. Vision Solutions is a member of the publicly traded IDION group of companies (JSE: IDI). For more information on Vision Solutions, please visit the company's website at www.visionsolutions.com.