Vision Solutions Brings Protection and Recovery to Cloud

Vision
Solutions, Inc. announced the launch of the company’s new Cloud Protection &
Recovery (CP&R) offering.

The new solution, based on the company’s Double-Take and MIMIX
products, enables cloud service providers to accelerate their cloud businesses
by offering their customers Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS), while taking
advantage of the simplicity of pay-per-use pricing. Vision’s CP&R offering
also allows IT professionals an affordable, low-risk path to the cloud.

The new cloud offering positions Vision
Solutions as a provider of cloud protection & recovery, HA/DR and migration/cross-platform
data sharing solutions that enable businesses of all sizes, from SMB to
enterprise, to protect their data,
applications and servers.

According to Gartner, Inc.: "the key attributes of cloud computing –
service-based, scalable and elastic, shared, metered by use and Internet-based
– deliver a strong alternative to more inflexible and expensive traditional DR
services and may even be a superior alternative to an in-house self-managed
approach. As a result, Gartner expects RaaS to continue to grow as a logical
extension to cloud infrastructure services." It estimates that:
"worldwide recovery as a service (RaaS) spending in 2012 was $465.7
million, and that the market will grow to $1.2 billion by 2017, a CAGR of 21%." [Gartner, Inc., Market Trends: Assessment
of the Rapidly Growing Market for Cloud-Based Recovery Services, John P.
Morency, et al, February 1, 2013]

Vision Solutions’ new Cloud Protection

& Recovery offering includes:

Recovery-as-a-Service
(RaaS) Platform: Double-Take Cloud Protection &
Recovery (CP&R), Apache CloudStack edition enables cloud providers running
Citrix CloudPlatform or Apache CloudStack to offer cloud-integrated
Recovery-as-a-Service to their end customers. This product is built on Double-Take’s
real-time replication technology.
Metered Usage: Double-take and MIMIX
metered usage allow cloud providers to consume licences of Vision Solutions’
DR, Migration and HA solutions in a pay-as-you-go fashion. This offering
reduces business risks for cloud providers and helps create affordable
cloud-based DR, HA and Migration solutions for the end-user.
Software Development Kit (SDK): Double-Take SDK offers cloud providers the
ability to use APIs for custom integration of Double-Take into their cloud
ecosystem. This enables a higher degree of automation and helps reduce
administrative costs for cloud providers.

With the launch of its cloud offering, Vision
Solutions is also realigning its product portfolio into three solution
categories: cloud protection & recovery; HA and DR; and migration and cross-platform
data sharing.

Vision’s HA and DR solutions have set the
industry standard for 22 years, ensuring resilience across cloud, virtual and
physical environments.

Products include:

Private/Public Cloud Protection: vCloud director aware data protection
Server Protection (cloud, virtual,
physical): Double-Take availability for Windows & Linux, MIMIX Availability and iTERA availability for IBM
i and Double–Take recoverNow for AIX
Agentless VM protection: Double-Take availability
for Hyper-V and Double-Take availability for vSphere

Vision’s migration and cross-platform data sharing
offering provides the products and services needed to eliminate the strain on
IT resources while offsetting the risks associated with migrating complex,
multi-tiered computing environments with near-zero downtime.

Products include:

Cross-Platform Data Sharing: Double-Take share
Intel/AMD Migrations: Double-Take move
Power Systems Migrations: MIMIX move and Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX

Alan Arnold, CTO, Vision Solutions, said: "Companies of all sizes, from SMB to
enterprise, are considering cloud-based recovery as a non-disruptive path to
cloud adoption and it follows the scalable, comprehensive DR and availability
solution that every cloud option requires. We are excited to introduce our
Cloud Protection & Recovery offering with a goal of enabling cloud
providers a new path to revenue and their customers the industry’s most
reliable data protection solution."

Peder Ulander, VP of product marketing, cloud
platforms group, Citrix Systems, Inc., said: "Citrix
CloudPlatform lays a foundation on which datacenter operators can quickly and
easily build on-demand, elastic cloud services within their existing
infrastructure. The Vision Solutions’ Cloud Protection & Recovery offering
allows CloudPlatform customers to take full advantage of cloud computing, with
the added benefit of enhanced protection for data, applications and servers."

Jay Bharvada, MD, perTECHtual Ltd, said: "As the market for solid cloud offerings
continues to expand, we’re thrilled to be able to fulfill the need for a
scalable and feature-rich RaaS solution to our customers with Vision Solutions’
CP&R. Vision Solutions and Double-Take are brands which our customers
trust, with a strong reputation built over 20 years, for providing reliable
continuous server protection and on-demand restoration. The security,
reliability, and resilience provided by the Cloud is something both small and
enterprise businesses cannot afford to ignore. At perTECHtual, we are all about
providing true resilience, in every aspect of our clients’ business. For our
customers, this is a great and affordable opportunity to gain access to the
best DR solutions and private secure enterprise clouds."