"Series VAR has worked with McKesson; they know the file names, file structure and where any potential problems would be. If we had gone with another vendor, we would have had to spend months teaching them the file structure and layout.

With Series VAR, we were up and running in a week. Without System Availability mirroring our production environment, we would have been down for 18 hours - and that would have been disastrous.

With Series VAR, we feel very comfortable that we have an environment we can bring up at anytime in less than one hour. This is especially valuable in the event of unplanned downtime."

Marty Stewart
Disaster Recovery Manager
Anderson Area Medical Center, SC

"I'm extremely pleased with the work and expertise that Series VAR has provided. We talked weekly to ensure any issues were worked out. Service has been solid, personnel knowledgeable and the follow up excellent. This has been such a success for us that I strongly encourage other hospitals to use Series VAR to exploit IBM's partitioning technology."

Carol Ciancio
Chief Information Officer
Beaver Dam Community Hospital, WI

"System Availability from Series VAR is very stable - very resilient! This should cut the time for a save and restore from 16-20 hours to around six hours, conservatively - that's really exciting!

I wouldn't do something on this scale with someone unfamiliar with my environment. It was a complete success!"

Michael Botticelli
Assoc. Director of Data Center Ops
Staten Island University Hospital

What does McKesson think about our solution for their Series 2000 users?

"McKesson Series 2000™, at this time, does not certify any third party HA solution, but when one of our customers calls us requesting information on high availability we always tell them to call Steve Larkin at Series VAR. As our exclusive IBM Business Partner, Steve has done great things using his company’s expertise and Vision Solutions’ product to provide our Series customers with what they need - redundant systems. I would highly recommend Series VAR because of their expertise and the number of our large customers that have implemented HA with them and the outstanding success they have had. No one wants to be a beta on this size project."

Steve Akerson
Exec. Director of Research & Development
McKesson Information Solutions

- High Availability Software  - HA Configurations (PDF)  - Remote Hosting Options  - Hospitals with our Solution

How are Series 2000 Hospitals using System Availability?

Proctor Hospital, IL
Full Redundancy to our Hot Site in Atlanta, GA

Anderson Area Medical Center, SC
Full Redundancy
Read their story!

Beaver Dam Community Hospital, WI
Single System, LPAR
Read their story!

Staten Island University Hospital, NY
Single System, LPAR
Read their story!

South Georgia Medical Center, GA
Full Redundancy, 2 System
Reporting a savings of over 300 hours a year from back-ups alone!

Yavapai Regional Medical Center, AZ
Full Redundancy, 2 System

Kaiser Foundation Hospital, HI
Full Redundancy, 2 System

Huntington Hospital, NY
Full Redundancy, 2 System

Potomac Hospital, VA
Full Redundancy, 2 System