Back to Blog
Doubletake carbonite6/25/2023 While Vision sold AIX HA and Linux data sharing solutions under the Double-Take name, those solutions didn’t use Double-Take code or intellectual property. Vision’s new strategy will hinge on its dominant position in the IBM i high availability software space, and to a lesser extent on its position in the market for high availability solutions for AIX and data sharing solutions for Power Systems, Linux, and Windows servers. They were teammates of ours for a long period of time. I’m very pleased with everything I’ve seen….We were very close. “Carbonite came up early in that process. “We went through a process in looking for the right spot” for the Double-Take business, Arnold said. And now with Double-Take, it has a more compelling business resiliency solution to offer to companies running critical applications on Windows Servers. With last year’s acquisition of cloud backup provider EVault for $14 million, Carbonite began targeting larger businesses. Carbonite started out selling Windows backup services to consumers and small business. The Double-Take product, including about 6,000 Double-Take customers and the company’s employees, appear to have found a good home in Carbonite, which has quietly expanded its target market over the years. This now enables us to go back to our core and better service the Power community and enable the Double-Take product to flourish in a Windows and more open systems environment.” “One is serving largely a Microsoft ecosystem and the other IBM. “The channels are quite different and certainly the product sets are,” Vesely said. The ball stated rolling on the Double-Take sale during a strategic planning meeting about 18 months ago – before Thoma Bravo sold Vision to Clearlake Capital in a private equity deal in May 2016 – and it just started making more and more sense, according to Edward Vesely, the chief marketing officer for the Irvine, California-based company. Its product, called Double-Take Availability, utilized a storage-based data replication scheme to protect applications and data running on Windows servers – a fundamentally different approach than the logical data replication scheme used by Vision’s various IBM i HA products, including MIMX, iTera HA, and ODS/OMS, the legacy Vision product. Vision bought Double-Take in May 2010 for $242 million in a bid to diversify its portfolio of high availability software. “Instead of dividing our time, our time can be focused like a laser with what we need to do with IBM.” “It’s hard to divide the brain between two technologies that require a lot of attention, and they both required a ton of attention,” Vision Solutions executive vice president and chief technology officer Alan Arnold said. Vision Solutions is now free to spend more time and energy building solutions for its core IBM i and Power Systems customer base now that it has sold Double-Take and the Windows high availability business to Carbonite for $65 million, executives with the company tell IT Jungle. Vision ‘Laser Focused’ On IBM i And Power Following Double-Take Sale
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |