Vision Solutions Signed Partnership Agreement With Softcat

Vision Solutions, Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with Softcat in the UK to expand its Cloud Availability for Providers (CAP) programme and support organisations that want to offer managed services around continuity, disaster recovery and backup for customers.

Vision Solutions’ Double-Take Availability and Double-Take RecoverNow products will be available for partners to build their own services on, allowing them to offer real-time replication for their customers’ data and protection for critical systems and applications. Both products offer the ability to protect entire physical or virtual servers continuously, and recover those servers to physical, virtual, or cloud environments, for flexibility.

Vision Solutions’ Cloud Availability for Providers Programme offers a monthly use-based licensing payment structure. Enrolled providers pay for only what they authorise customers to use the previous month. Providers can be both a member of the CAP Programme and the Double-Take Partner Programme, giving them access to perpetual licenses as well.

Ian Masters, UK Sales Director at Vision Solutions commented: "We have been running our own programme for managed services over the past two years, and we have seen a strong demand through our partners for this approach to consuming disaster recovery and business continuity services. This new partnership with Softcat will extend this opportunity out to a wider range of organisations, helping us to grow our business in this sector. Softcat’s skill and experience in running service provider license distribution programmes made them an obvious choice for us."

Softcat runs a service provider license agreement (SPLA) programme for a number of vendors including Microsoft, VMware and Red Hat.

Damian Wakefield, Partner Services Manager at Softcat commented: "There is a big pent-up demand for disaster recovery and business continuity solutions in the market. Speaking to the customers and partners that we work with, offering these kinds of services is a strong differentiator for organisations to have. Vision Solutions’ Double-Take products already have great visibility in the market, so we are looking forward to taking these solutions out to a wider audience."

Double-Take Availability provides real-time asynchronous replication over wide area networks with automated failover capabilities. Using Double-Take Availability allows service providers to offer remote availability services that meet RTO. Users can have their critical applications running again in minutes.

Double-Take RecoverNow provides the same real-time replication and protects data with consolidated disk repositories. Based on a ‘many-to-one’ deployment model that lowers the back-end costs to service providers, but still supporting RTOs superior to approaches based on tape restore.