#VisionSolutions is now free to spend more time and energy building solutions for its core #IBMi and #PowerSystems customer base now that it has sold #DoubleTake and the Windows high availability business to #Carbonite for $65 million, executives with the company tell IT Jungle. “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. “Instead of dividing our time, our time can be focused like a laser with what we need to do with IBM.” Vision bought Double-Take in May 2010 for $242 million in a bid to diversify its portfolio of high availability software. 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. 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. “The channels are quite different and certainly the product sets are,” Vesely said. “One is serving largely a Microsoft ecosystem and the other IBM. 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.” 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. Carbonite started out selling Windows backup services to consumers and small business. With last year’s acquisition of cloud backup provider EVault for $14 million, Carbonite began targeting larger businesses. And now with Double-Take, it has a more compelling business resiliency solution to offer to companies running critical applications on Windows Servers. “We went through a process in looking for the right spot” for the Double-Take business, Arnold said. “Carbonite came up early in that process. I’m very pleased with everything I’ve seen….We were very close [with the Double-Take employees]. They were teammates of ours for a long period of time. We’ll remain friends.”
https://www.itjungle.com/2017/02/06/vision-laser-focused-ibm-power-following-double-take-sale/
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