Today, <a href=http://www.visionsolutions.com/>Vision Solutions</a>, a COMMON ELLITE Exhibitor, announced the release of <a="http://www.visionsolutions.com/Products/Disaster-Recovery-RecoverNow.aspx">RecoverNow</a> V5.1.

RecoverNow protects businesses by automatically capturing data and object changes that occur between tape saves, continuously saving them on local or remote disk storage devices. These <a href="http://www.visionsolutions.com/webforms/vidlanding4.aspx">Continuous Data Protection (CDP)</a> "rewind" capabilities make it possible to recover damaged or deleted data at any point in time.

RecoverNow leverages and extends the capabilities of IBM i journaling, but that all happens under the covers. Use of the product does not require any journaling expertise.

IT headcounts tend to be low in small to medium-size businesses, which is a primary market for IBM i. Consequently, solutions that improve the productivity of the IT staff are always appreciated. Version 5.1 of RecoverNow addresses this concern by providing a new recovery assistant that automates and simplifies recovery operations.

"RecoverNow makes protecting data fast, easy and affordable by saving information on current storage devices including those connected to Windows, Linux or UNIX environments," says Craig Johnson, vice president of research and development, Vision Solutions. "The upgraded software solution enables data and objects to be brought back to near the point of failure, or to any point in time after the last tape save, using powerful Continuous Data Protection [CDP] capabilities—dramatically reducing the amount of data a customer could potentially lose if they were only using a tape-based data protection scheme."

<b>-- Joel Klebanoff</b>