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Leaders Have Vision(TM) Worldwide Partner Conferences Highlight Success
World's Leading High Availability Organizations Convene to Discuss New Market Trends, Programs and Offerings
| Source: Vision Solutions
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2008) - Vision Solutions, the leading high availability
and disaster recovery solutions provider in IBM Power Systems markets
(NYSE : IBM ), is hosting global partner conferences to meet the needs of its
ever-expanding partner and customer bases across the Americas, Europe,
Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific regions.
Demand for Vision Solutions'
products and services continues to outpace industry growth rates. To
sustain this trend, the Company is launching integrated marketing campaigns
and customized partner programs to support its distribution and support
initiatives. The conferences include updates from executive management and
product development, along with extensive training that enables partners to
address the needs of a fast-growing customer base.
"This European conference was truly an invaluable experience," says Vision
Solutions' partner Graham Hope, senior manager of sales for INFOR. "Vision
Solutions has an incredible story and we're excited to be part of it."
Vision Solutions' products are being adopted by record
numbers of customers in vital worldwide industries from manufacturing and
healthcare to retail and financial services across small-and-mid-market to
large enterprise segments. The needs of these organizations vary with some
desiring relatively simple backup and recovery solutions to others
requiring the greatest levels of high availability protection spanning
multiple continents. Together, Vision and its partners ensure the viability
of businesses with 24/7 certified customer service, and solutions that
optimize and extend IBM's latest Power Systems technologies.
"Our products and services are excellent solutions for companies of all
sizes wanting to protect and manage their data in today's 24/7
marketplace," says Vision Solutions Senior Vice President of EMEA and
Americas Sales, Bob Johnson. "We are deeply committed to helping our
partners and customers become as successful as possible. During these
conferences, we are sharing our latest product innovations and roadmap,
discussing partner opportunities and unveiling exciting go-to-market
initiatives."
To serve the regional needs of more than 400 premier partners, these
first-rate Vision Solutions
conferences are being held in Portugal, Vietnam and the United States.
"These events are not only dynamic for our Company, but also for our
growing worldwide partner community," says Vision Solutions' Vice President
of Sales for Asia Pacific, Allan Campbell. "Together, we are reaching more
people to provide the world's best high availability and disaster recovery
solutions for all of our customers, no matter their size or location. For
example, here in Vietnam, the leading banks are all long-term Vision
customers."
"Together with leaders in the industry like Vision Solutions and their
extensive partner network worldwide, IBM Power Systems is always searching
to complement IBM's offerings in order to bring innovative solutions to
customers of all sizes to meet their ever increasing needs for business
resiliency," says IBM's Director of Power Systems for Southwest IOT,
Alessandro Colonna.
"The world is changing rapidly with competitive and environmental pressures
that can threaten business viability. Vision Solutions carries a great
responsibility to ensure our customers maintain resilient businesses with
the best possible combination of software and support plus valuable partner
services and best practices," says Vision Solutions Senior Vice President
of Marketing, Ed Vesely. "Vision invests more in service, support and
partner enablement than any other high availability organization in the
world. These conferences enable our loyal partners to quickly adapt to
regional market needs, and provide the highest levels of service to protect
more than 6,000 customers in more than 70 countries."
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, Inc. is the
world's leading provider of high availability, disaster recovery and data
management solutions for IBM® System i and System p platforms. With a
portfolio spanning the industry's most innovative and trusted HA solutions
from ORION™, MIMIX® and iTERA™
brands, Vision keeps critical businesses information continuously protected
and available. Affordable and easy to use, Vision products ensure business
continuity, increase productivity, reduce operating costs and satisfy
compliance requirements. Vision also offers advanced cluster management and
systems management solutions, and support for i5/OS®, Windows®, and
AIX® operating environments. As IBM's largest high availability Premier
Business Partner (NYSE : IBM ), Vision Solutions oversees a global network of
business partners and services and support professionals to help our
customers achieve their business goals. Privately held by Thoma Cressey
Bravo, Inc., Vision Solutions is headquartered in Irvine, California with
offices worldwide. For more information visit www.visionsolutions.com or
call 800.957.4511.