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COMPANY OVERVIEW

Short overview of Marathon Technologies(PDF)


DEMOS

Short demonstrations of capabilities of Marathon's everRun HA and everRun FT.


WHITE PAPERS

Six Secrets to SQL Server Availability  NEW!
Secrets that help you to implement an SQL environment with little or no downtime.

Protecting data and applications from major disasters and minor disruption  NEW!
Latest white paper from Marathon Technologies.  

Seven Secrets to 24x7 Exchange Availability  
How to Implement an Exchange Environment with zero lost data and continuous applications availability in the event of a disaster.

"Breaking Through The Noise"
Examining Fault Tolerance in a Windows environment (PDF)


DATA SHEETS

Marathon everRun HA product providing high availability protection for Windows servers (PDF)

Marathon everRun FT product providing fault tolerant protection for Windows servers that can eliminate failovers (PDF)


NEWS/ARTICLES

NEW NETWORK COMPUTING UK and everRun HA - "This product is blindingly simple in its set up and operation, disproportionately effective and actually by anyone's standards, attractively priced."

NEW Processor Magazine recently interviewed Gary Phillips, Marathon's President and CEO. The article is titled "A Step up in Application Availability - Marathon Offers SMEs Infinite Availability for Windows Applications". An excerpt from the article is:

Founded in 1993, Marathon Technologies is among the fastest-growing companies in today's application availability market. The company's everRun product family represents a breakthrough in application availability, moving the market past high availability and continuous solutions to what Marathon calls "infinite availability".

NEW TechWorld Magazine provided coverage on Marathon, and the link to the article titled "Lessons from the Virtualized Enterprise". An excerpt from this article is as follows:

Virtualization technology has been creating much hype across the industry and SMEs are now chomping at the bit to get some of the action. Nick Turnbull, EMEA sales director, Marathon Technologies, suggests that now is the time for SMEs to consider adopting virtualization, and provides some food for thought on things to consider before taking the plunge.

NEW Public Technology Magazine focused on a case study featuring the Belfast City Hospital and how they are applying Marathon Technology solutions. The article is titled "Virtualization IT protects Belfast City Hospital from downtime". A portion of the article is as follows:

Cancer services in Northern Ireland have recently been enhanced with the creation of the new Belfast City Hospital Oncology Centre. The unit has quickly become a regional centre of excellence in cancer treatment, ensuring that all patients receive the same standard of care regardless of their location. A key component in the success of this venture has been the implementation of a highly available and cost-effective IT system based on virtualization technology.



EverRun HA News Release
: See what Marathon had to say when they announced their EverRun HA, its next-generation application availability product with patented virtualization architecture.

Top 10 Requirements for HA: Marathon's Michael Bilancieri describes what his top ten requirements are for a successful High Availabillty solution on a Wintel platform.

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions for Marathon's HA and FT solutions.


CASE STUDIES

Medical  NEW!
24x7 Access Control for Scott and White Hospital and Clinics (PDF)

Civil Aviation  NEW!
Highly Reliable Supervisory Building Control forSignapore's Changi Airport (PDF)

Energy  NEW!
24x7 Asset Management Solution for Albiands Sands Energy Inc. (PDF)

Public Utilities
Santa Rosa Keeps the Water Running
(PDF)

Agriculture
Marathon and Wonderware Keep Rich Products Running 24/7
(PDF)

Media/Entertainment
Marathon - Clear Winner for Television Sports News Network
(PDF)

Gaming/Casino
Station Casinos Keeps Slot Machines Running
(PDF)
Cache Creek Case Study (PDF)

Government
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commision Counts on everRun FT™
(PDF)

Healthcare
Ohta General Hospital Moves to Paperless System Protected by Marathon Software
(PDF)

911 Emergency Response
MASCO Protects Communications System for Five Hospitals
(PDF)

Hotel/Hospitality
Hotel Plaza Kobe Protects Key Customer Service System on Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX200FT Systems
(PDF)

Manufacturing/Distribution
Dungannon Meats Beefs Up Protection of Production Systems
(PDF)

Computer Services/Application Development
Marathon and Key Ensure a Winning Game at Aristocrat
(PDF)


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MARATHON TAKES TOP PRIZE AT VMworld 2007

  
  
NECN Video News reports on VMware and the virtualization industry and includes the CEO of Marathon ... view on!

It was VMware's party at VMworld, but Marathon Technologies won the Best of VMworld Award in the New Technology category for everRun.
Read about Marathon’s big win.
CLICK TO READ MORE


v-Available

MARATHON'S NEW v-AVAILABILITY INITIATIVE

On April 17, Marathon announced their v-Available Initiative, a first-of-a-kind initiative designed to bring fault-tolerant availabillity to virtual environments.

Marathon Technologies Brings Fault Tolerant-class Availability
to Virtual Environments with v-Available™ Initiative
   
Marathon Technologies Launches v-Available™ Certification Program
   
Marathon Technologies to Integrate XenSource to Bring
Fault Tolerant-class Availability to Virtualized Environments

As noted in the second announcement above, "Marathon partners such as Key Information Systems, a systems integrator and IBM Premier Business Partner, have already seen the value in joining the v-Available Certification Program as charter members".


EverRun

NEW everRun FT 7.1.0


Marathon's everRun FT 7.1.0, just released, delivers improvements in four
important areas:

  • Dynamic Upgrades
  • Increased memory capacity
  • Improved disk performance
  • Uninstall of everRun product updates

Planned Downtime for security patches or application upgrades makes up the majority of downtime for most Windows applications. These important improvements provide additional support to protect for Planned Downtime.

Click on this link to see a Product Update Overview for the new release that is now available: Click here to read the Product Update Overview

For more information about this announcement, please see your Key representative.


ABOUT MARATHON

Marathon Technologies defines what’s next after clusters -- Infinite Availability™. Moving beyond traditional high availability, Marathon sets a new standard for availability using its patented virtualization technology that embraces off-the-shelf servers, Windows and business process applications. Marathon’s everRun™ product family delivers a completely automatic path to application availability, liberating busy IT professionals from unnecessary complexity. Business process applications are the lifeblood of business operations. When applications fail; data is lost, revenue is forfeited, employees are unproductive, and the company’s brand is potentially damaged.

everRun provides a simpler, more reliable availability solution than the most widely used option in the marketplace today - clustering. Turnkey, automated, simplicity are the cornerstones of everRun, which uses embedded intelligent policy management to resolve faults & failures, allowing the application to ComputeThru® without interruption. Marathon Technologies is a privately held, venture-backed corporation based in Littleton, MA, with offices world-wide. For more information, visit www.marathontechnologies.com.

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