IDION Technology Holdings` subsidiary Vision Solutions, a leading managed availability solutions provider, yesterday announced that it is collaborating with IBM on its Autonomic Computing initiative, and is one of the first IBM business partners to adopt the groundbreaking new technologies.
These technologies will create a new way of managing systems and the architecture will lay the foundation for an autonomic, self-healing infrastructure that will help users to perform problem determination and remediation more quickly and easily.
This collaboration includes the design elements and implementation of the Common Base Event format, a basis for standardised exchange of problem determination data via Web services. Common Base Event was recently introduced by IBM as a common format for log/trace information.
"IBM is committed to working with companies like Vision Solutions to incorporate autonomic computing technologies based on open standards into their products," said David Bartlett, director, Autonomic Computing, IBM.
"IBM is making these technologies available in our new Autonomic Computing Toolkit to accelerate adoption in the industry, with the objective of enabling dramatic improvements in our customers` ability to perform problem determination. We are delighted that Vision Solutions is taking a leadership role in adopting autonomic computing technologies."
"We are pleased to be one of the first IBM Business Partners to collaborate with IBM in work on their autonomic computing technologies," said Dave Brown, chief scientist of Vision Solutions. "ORION is built with XML-based standards that easily incorporate autonomic architectures that when implemented using the Common Base Event format. The integration of these new Autonomic Standards and Utilities with ORION`s Cross Platform Clustering Project will offer a best of breed monitoring and self-healing solution that will simplify enterprise service management, adding value by enabling customers to monitor and manage their own systems more easily and effectively."
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ORION is the first multi-platform 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 2 000 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 the company`s Web site at www.visionsolutions.com.
IDION Technology Holdings Ltd
IDION Technology Holdings Ltd 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. For more information on IDION, please visit the company`s Web site at www.idion.com.
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