IDION Technology Holdings` subsidiary Vision Solutions, a leading managed availability solutions provider, yesterday announced a worldwide joint road show with IBM in support of ORION, the industry`s first true multi-platform information availability solution.
The road show began in late August and will stop in 13 cities including Irvine, Chicago, Milan, Barcelona, Dortmund, Miami, Buenos Aires, London, Stockholm, Warwick, Brussels, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Hong Kong.
The road show is geared towards introducing IT executives to ORION and explaining the benefits of the new component-based solutions.
ORION`s architecture is completely modular and highly scalable. This enables companies of any size to meet their specific availability needs of today with the unique ability to seamlessly scale-up the solution as required to meet the evolving needs of the future by simply adding modules to a common engine without ever changing the common infrastructure or interface.
This model allows businesses to reduce their total cost of ownership in terms of training, administration management costs, and vendor support translating into improved ROI.
"ORION is the only multi-platform HA solution today that supports all the iSeries environments and topologies," said David Wegman, Executive Vice-President of Marketing for Vision Solutions. "The single interface and modular architecture extend the value proposition around iSeries and delivers significant cost savings for iSeries customers."
The road show is part of a three-month worldwide joint roll-out plan and will also provide an overview of IBM`s newly announced HA and CBU Servers presented by Steve Finnes, Worldwide Segment Manager for High Availability and Clustering, IBM.
"Today`s businesses face the ongoing challenge of integrating management functions, data access and availability across the enterprise," said Steve Finnes, product manager for high availability solutions, IBM iSeries. "ORION`s multi-platform capabilities allow IBM to extend the iSeries value proposition into new markets and opportunities for the company and its worldwide partner community."
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ORION is the first multi-platform software solution that enables users to predictably manage the functional availability of servers, data and applications across an enterprise, regardless of platform. ORION supports the OS/400, Windows and Linux platforms and DB2/400, UDB, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server databases. Its functions include data integration across disparate databases as well as managed application and server availability within both homogeneous and heterogeneous environments including multi-system fail-over and recovery all from a common interface.
Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions is headquartered in Irvine, California, and provides solutions for assuring the availability of a company`s mission-critical applications and data. With more than 1 850 customers and 10 000 licences in 70 countries, the company is a leading managed availability vendor for the IBM eServer iSeries. Through its worldwide network of channel partners, the company supports virtually every industry with its world-class solutions, Visualize, Vision Suite, ORION and Symbiator. Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner and an IBM High Availability Business Partner. Vision Solutions is a member of the publicly traded IDION group of companies (JSE: IDI). For more information on Vision Solutions, please visit www.visionsolutions.com.
IDION Technology Holdings
IDION Technology Holdings is an investment holding company listed on the main board of the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE: IDI). Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Vision Solutions, it provides solutions for assuring the availability of a company`s mission-critical applications and data. IDION was ranked 38th in the 2002 Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu European Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing technology companies. It was also ranked second in the Barloworld, PricewaterhouseCoopers` and Business Report SA Global Company Awards in the same year. For more information on IDION, please visit www.idion.com.
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