Vision Solutions Announces Availability Appliance Powered by IBM Server Technologies

Vision Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of informationavailability software and services with over 25,000 clients runningWindows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and cloud computing environments,today announced the Vision Solutions Availability Appliance. Thisoffering enables businesses to benefit from pre-installed highavailability solutions on industry leading IBM Power Systems andSystem x servers.

The Premier Partnership with IBM

Through the Premier Partnership with IBM, Vision is offering theVision Availability Appliance, a low cost solution that will supportmid-market clients with high availability for Windows and IBM ioperating environments. The OEMComputing Solutions business of Arrow Electronics Inc. is providinginstallation and shipping support for the appliance.

Customers may order the Vision Availability Appliance from theirlocal Vision Solutions reseller and have that solution pre-installedand tested by Arrow OEM Computing Solutions prior to arriving at thecustomer's site ready for integration. The new appliance benefitsinclude:

Double-Take Availability for IBM System x provides full-featuredautomated switching and failover for true high availability onphysical and virtual Windows and Linux environments. Especiallydesigned for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, Double-TakeAvailability as well includes robust hardware andapplication-independent clustering with or without underlying logicalreplication. It's robust, but affordable and very easy to manage.As well, with the Vision Availability Appliance, the IBM System x serverwill arrive at the site pre-installed with Double-Take Availabilityand ready for configuration and implementation.

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