World's First Fault-Tolerant, High Availability Software for Server Virtualization Now Available
04/30/2008
Marathon Technologies Releases New everRun® Software to Help Companies Virtualize a Much Broader Range of Applications; Making HA and DR Practical for Mid-market Companies
Littleton, Mass. — April 30, 2008 — Marathon Technologies Corporation today announced the general availability of everRun VM , the world’s first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization. With the release of everRun VM, Marathon is eliminating one of the major barriers to broader server virtualization adoption – the lack of reliable high availability for virtual servers – and providing customers with the assurance that critical data, networks and applications will be protected in virtual server environments. The unique benefits of everRun VM’s approach enables companies to:
- Prevent outages and data loss in their virtual infrastructures
- Bring server virtualization’s cost and energy saving benefits to business critical and other production applications
- Deploy high availability and disaster recovery protection across the company – especially mid-market companies with no protection today
Citrix XenServer is a dynamic virtualization software platform that virtualizes application workloads across any number of servers in the datacenter as a flexible aggregated pool of computing resources. everRun VM is the world’s first automated, fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization that is integrated with Citrix XenServer. The combination of Citrix XenServer high-performance, easy-to-use virtualization hypervisor with the proven automated availability of Marathon’s everRun software enables more enterprises to deploy virtualization across a much broader array of applications.
Five Industry Firsts
everRun VM leap-frogs other high availability offerings for server virtualization by delivering the five industry firsts:
- First fault-tolerant, high availability software for virtual servers - everRun VM provides fault-tolerant protection without the use of specialized hardware. The fault-tolerant redundancy of everRun VM ensures no outages and zero data loss. Companies can reliably run production applications in virtual machines and gain virtualization benefits across a much broader range of applications.
- First fully automated HA solution for virtual servers - everRun VM has completely automated setup, configuration, fault detection and policy management. The software is fully deployable in 30 minutes or less. Through automation everRun VM removes the traditional availability burden for IT professionals and brings high availability and disaster recovery to mid-market and Fortune 500 remote facilities.
- First availability software that allows availability to be selected by VM- Administrators have the ability to dial-in different availability levels – from true high availability and fault tolerance to disaster recovery and remote availability – based on specific application requirements. Companies only pay for the protection needed – and get the best price/performance.
- First geographic fault-tolerance software – everRun VM goes beyond local server-level protection by enabling fault tolerance between geographically disperse locations to maintain system availability through major outages. Production applications running in virtual machines are available even when the entire data center is down. Compliance and production requirements are met even through a disaster.
- First availability software designed and priced for broad adoption – everRun VM is the first software that combines the availability benefits of server virtualization with simple automated availability software. Companies can now afford to protect applications they aren’t protecting today.
“We’ve received an overwhelmingly positive response from beta customers and partners about the business and IT benefits that can be realized from everRun VM,” said Gary Phillips, president and CEO of Marathon Technologies. “The general availability of everRun VM means that companies can now reliably run high-value applications in virtual machines and gain the cost savings of server consolidation across a much broader range of applications. And because everRun VM completely automates setup and maintenance, we expect our customers will be able to significantly reduce their IT resource and operating costs.”
Pricing and Availability
Qualified customers can download a free 15-day trial of everRun VM. The latest version of Citrix XenServer 4.1 is also available as a trial edition. everRun VM suggested retail pricing is $2000 per server (perpetual license) for customers that have Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition. everRun VM with Citrix XenServer 4.1 Enterprise Edition is $4500 per server for a perpetual license.
About Marathon Technologies
With over 1800 global customers, Marathon is the world’s first and only provider of fault-tolerant, automated, high availability and disaster recovery software for physical and virtual servers. Marathon’s everRun® software prevents outages and data loss – without IT intervention. Organizations using everRun achieve uninterrupted availability, 100% data protection, and rapid recovery – all through “one-click” operation. The company won a “Best of VMworld 2007 – New Technology” award for bringing fault tolerant availability to virtual servers. CIO.com recently named Marathon Technologies one of “10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2008". And the company was recognized as a 2008 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate. For more information visit www.marathontechnologies.com.
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Contacts:
Brian Keith Mullins
Marathon Technologies Corp.
978.489.1146
bmullins@marathontechnologies.com
Lynda Sylvia
Racepoint Group Inc.
781.487.4619
lsylvia@racepointgroup.com
