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high availability clustering demonstration with J.D. Edwards OneWorld Xe
IDION Technology Holdings Ltd
IDION's US subsidiary Vision Solutions, an information availability
management company, and Premier Industry Partner DSI (Data Systems
International, Inc.), yesterday conducted the first-ever live demonstration
of Vision Suite's clustering capabilities with J.D. Edwards OneWorld Xe.
The demonstration conducted at FOCUS 2001 in Denver, Colorado, was performed
on two IBM eServer iSeries systems (AS/400s) using IBM's new OS/400 V5R1 in
a live clustered mode, and simulated power failures, planned outage
switchovers, and system failovers.
At the conference, J.D. Edwards also announced a joint hardware and software
development project with IBM's eServer division.
The project will see IBM build customized versions of its AS/400 series,
recently renamed the iSeries, to run updates of J.D. Edwards' collaborative
commerce and core ERP (enterprise resource planning) solutions.
Vision Solutions CEO Nicolaas Vlok commented: "Vision Solutions is proud to
have partnerships with world-class companies like J.D. Edwards. We welcome
the opportunity to show how Vision Suite's clustering capabilities maximise
the functionality of the OneWorld Xe solution and provide the ultimate in
information availability for customers."
Mike Jackson, senior manager of OneWorld Server Technologies at J.D.
Edwards, commented: "We want to spread the word about this technology. High
availability clustering is becoming a major component of any strong
enterprise system, and a major selling point for our software."
Enquiries: 13 June 2001
IDION Technology Holdings Tel: 011 517 1500
Corn Arnold, Corporate Communications
College Hill Johannesburg Tel: 011 447 3030
Julia Kerr
Notes to Editors:
About Vision Solutions
With locations around the world, Vision Solutions provides software to
ensure that a company's mission-critical data is always available. Vision
Solutions has customers in virtually every industry around the world and has
sold more than 4,000 licenses in more than 40 countries boasting more than
1,500 customers.
Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner, and maintains technical
alliances with Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, Progress and Informix. Vision
Solutions' Vision Suite is the most recommended and widely deployed
solutions for high availability, disaster recovery and continuous operations
on the iSeries. Vision Suite is cluster-enabled making systems 99.999%
available against planned and unplanned downtime. Vision Suite's clustering
technology guarantees seamless failovers by automatically switching end
users to recovery iSeries servers.
Vision Solutions is a member of the IDION group of companies. For more
information on Vision Solutions or its products, please visit the company's
website at www.visionsolutions.com
About IDION Technology Holdings Limited
IDION was founded in 1994 and listed on the JSE in 1998. Vision Solutions
and IDION Business Solutions Group are wholly owned subsidiaries of IDION
Technology Holdings. For more information about IDION, please visit the
company's website at www.idion.com
About J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards OneWorld Xe is a leading collaborative commerce solution that
offers a comprehensive blend of enterprise resource planning, customer
relationship management, supply chain management and electronic commerce.
About DSI
Founded in 1979, DSI is a global, advance technology solutions provider,
employing more than 400 people throughout 28 locations in North America, the
United Kingdom and Australia. With more than 13 years of experience, DSI
consultants are experts in the configuration and implementation of J.D.
Edwards software on IBM products.
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