Vision Solutions provides superior data management and recovery technology

Vision Solutions is able to deliver great news for today’s marketplace. The message is simple: high availability and disaster recovery solutions are affordable and easy-to-use. The time has come to upgrade antiquated systems to a more streamlined and economical solution that controls downtime and protects your system. Indeed, anyone in the System i or AIX community can now access the strength and stability of high availability that in the past has only been accessible to large corporations.

“Vision Solutions has the experience and solutions that companies of all sizes seek”
-Mike Khattab

Vision Solutions is making every effort to bring their reliability to as many organizations as possible, and the Company is excited to spread the word about this type of technology being both economical and easy-to-use.

Today's high availability solutions can be controlled with only minutes of work each day to ensure the highest level of productivity - this means companies of all sizes can now take control over downtime.

Vision Solutions has sought out the marketplace and successfully delivered state-of-the art solutions to help companies of all sizes enjoy the benefits of HA and DR. Their products include ORION, MIMIX and iTERA HA award-winning solutions. "Our iTERA HA product is the number one selling technology in the SMB marketplace today," says Mike Khattab, vice president of sales for Vision Solutions' Growth Markets.

The Company's Migrate While Active technology eliminates the pain normally associated with upgrades and migrations to IBM® Power™ Systems servers running IBM i (formerly i5/OS®, OS/400®) or AIX operating environments, by allowing your company to continue its operations normally - with virtually no downtime - while you perform this essential work. Compare that to the hours or even days of downtime that you've probably accepted in the past. Migrate While Active uses Vision's advanced high availability technologies to rapidly copy business-critical data to your new Power Systems server and keep it synchronized with your production system in real-time. To ensure that you'll have a ready-to-run server, Migrate While Active mirrors all of the data and objects needed for a successful upgrade or migration.

Because you don't have to worry about downtime, you can take as long as you need - during normal business hours - to thoroughly test the new system. After validating your new Power Systems server environment, move users and processes to it in just minutes.

Vision Solutions' RecoverNow technology automatically captures IBM i (i5/OS) transaction and object changes that occur between tape saves, continuously saving them on storage devices you already have; even those connected to Windows, Linux, or UNIX environments. It also makes recovering data faster and easier. Whether you need to recover from a single object or restore your entire system, RecoverNow enables you to bring back data and objects to near the point of failure, or to any point in time after your last tape save, using powerful Continuous Data Protection (CDP) capabilities. Plus, RecoverNow lets you perform tape backup without impacting production systems, thus eliminating the downtime that would normally be required.

RecoverNow protects more of your data by leveraging and extending the capabilities of IBM i journaling. It captures data and object changes that occur between tape backups and continuously saves them to local or remote disk storage. And RecoverNow's extensive built-in journal management automation means that no journaling expertise is required. Its automated restore process assistance reduces the risk of recovery problems and errors. And if a tape failure occurs, you are still protected. RecoverNow can complete a near-point-of-failure recovery even from an earlier tape set.

With all of these products (and many more), it's easy to see Vision Solutions has intelligently navigated the high availability marketplace in order to provide customers with the best and most extensive products and service offerings. They continue to merge both technology and customers successfully.

Khattab is quick to mention Vision Solutions did not become number one overnight. "It continues to be a process of careful planning and strategic moves," says Mr. Khattab. "We have great appreciation for the customer base and each step we take means more enhancements and improved technology for users."

Vision Solutions enjoys an extensive global business partner program in more than 70 countries. With nearly 7,000 customers worldwide and numerous, one-of-a-kind patents for their products, Vision Solutions has the ability to match products perfectly to meet their clients' needs.

"Vision Solutions has the experience and solutions that companies of all sizes seek," adds Mr. Khattab. "I encourage every company to discover how they can protect their company's data by taking advantage of Vision Solutions ever-expanding product offerings."

Learn more by visiting Vision Solutions online at www.visionsolutions.com.

About the author
Mike Khattab oversees Vision's sales management and business development activities within the many growth markets of the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. In addition to more than 15 years of sales experience in the high availability/disaster recovery technology sector, he has significant experience and background in both the technical and practical business aspects of business continuity and IT recovery. Mr. Khattab's expertise with diverse sales models and strategies consistently drives increased revenue and market share across mid-market and large enterprise segments.