By Dave Raffo, Senior News Director 28 Jul 2010 | SearchDisasterRecovery.com
“Vision Solutions completed its $242 million acquisition of Double-Take Software this week. The deal brings Double-Take’s disaster recovery and high-availability software for Windows and Linux into Vision’s product portfolio alongside its disaster recovery and high-availability software for IBM Power Series, AIX and AS 400 platforms. We spoke with Vision Solutions CEO Nicolaas Vlok and CTO Alan Arnold about their plans for Double-Take under the Vision banner.
SearchDisasterRecovery: How will Double-Take be integrated with Vision Solutions? Will it be a separate division, a subsidiary or fully integrated within Vision?
Vlok: Double-Take will be fully integrated into our operations — the back offices, support, marketing and ultimate field operations as far as sales go will be integrated.
SearchDisasterRecovery: What about branding?
Vlok: The company name of Double-Take will be changed to Vision Solutions. The products will remain named Double-Take Availability, Double-Take Move, and so on. And some of our Vision products such as EchoStream [continous data protection (CDP) software] and EchoCluster [high availability/DR] will be changed to Double-Take for AIX. Our AIX replication product will become Double-Take Share. So we’re consolidating corporate branding and maintaining the Double-Take brand, and some of the lesser known Vision products will take the Double-Take name.”
Read the rest of the interview on Searchdisasterrecovery.com
Filed under: Backup and Recovery, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Hyper-V, VMware Infrastructure, Virtualization | Tagged: Virtualization disaster recovery, CEO Vision Solutions, Doubletake for virtual recovery
