Vision Solutions Expands Presence in South Africa

Vision Solutions announced a partnership with Prodata, a value added distributor specializing in availability software for Windows and Linux operating systems. The partnership covers South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique.

Vision Solutions provides centralized backup solutions for protecting data, systems and applications across physical and virtualized server environments. As a specialized distributor, Prodata supports Vision Solutions’ products for Windows and Linux platforms, including Double-Take Availability, Double-Take Move and Double-Take® RecoverNow.

"This partnership is a mutually beneficial opportunity as there is a pent-up demand across the region for products that can help organizations deal with their business continuity and high availability issues at an affordable price," says Jay Bradley from Prodata. "We have best-in-class capabilities to distribute and sell Vision Solutions Replication and High Availability products for the Windows and Linux Operating Systems, as well as for virtualized servers. We are looking forward to working with Vision Solutions to expand the market for their business continuity and information availability solutions."

Wouter Vancoppenolle, Sales Director Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa for Vision Solutions, commented: "Following on from strong levels of sales growth during 2010 in South Africa, Vision Solutions decided to expand our presence and reach in this country and the surrounding area among local companies and help them to protect their servers and data. This market is important for us as it is one of the major economies within the continent. We trust this partnership with Prodata will bring us new business opportunities for the large range of products that Vision Solutions offers."