Marathon Technologies and AimNet Solutions Ink Reseller Agreement

Business Wire, Dec 18, 2006

Alliance Enables Customers in Wide-Spectrum of Vertical Markets to Leverage Marathon's Virtualized High Availability Solutions for Critical Applications

LITTLETON, Mass. -- Marathon Technologies Corporation, the leading provider of high availability software for Microsoft([R]) Windows([R]) environments, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with AimNet Solutions, a managed network and professional services company. Recently acquired by Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of IT services, AimNet will offer Marathon's everRun line of high availability solutions, in conjunction with its suite of managed and professional services to its customers, which include companies serving the healthcare services, electrical utilities, financial services, retail, manufacturing and education markets.

Under the terms of the agreement, AimNet will offer Marathon's everRun product line as an integrated part of its managed and professional services, and the two companies will work cooperatively to provide business continuity solutions to customers with Microsoft Windows applications. AimNet was attracted to Marathon's use of virtualization technologies to make high availability solutions reliable and cost-effective.

"Our customers have been looking for a more affordable and flexible solution to high-availability and fault-tolerance," said Wayne Dunn, senior director of enterprise computing at AimNet Solutions. "Marathon's offerings, which leverage cutting-edge virtualization technology, give us the ability to architect a solution that meets that criterion without specialized hardware and modified software. In addition, for the first time, we can provide customers with legacy applications that are not 'cluster aware' both fault-tolerance and high-availability in an infrastructure design that involves a standard OS. Marathon's products open up tremendous opportunities to serve our client base."

"Our partnership with AimNet greatly expands Marathon's ability to penetrate a wide-variety of high-growth vertical markets," said Gary R. Phillips, president and CEO of Marathon Technologies. "Working with Marathon enables AimNet to address the business continuity issues its customers are facing today and will face tomorrow."

Marathon's everRun line of high availability products protects Microsoft Windows applications from leading sources of downtime while eliminating the need for costly and complex failover processes, specialized applications, or proprietary server hardware. Turnkey, automated, and simplicity are the cornerstones of the everRun line, which uses embedded intelligent policy management to resolve faults & failures. The primary benefit to the end user is that applications continue to ComputeThru([R]) platform faults & failures, without needing to modify or script the application.

About Marathon Technologies:

Marathon Technologies Corporation, the fastest growing high availability company, defines what's next after clusters -- Infinite Availability[TM]. Moving beyond traditional high availability, Marathon sets a new standard for application availability using its patented virtualization technology that embraces off-the-shelf servers, Windows and business process applications. Marathon's everRun[TM] product family delivers a completely automatic path to application availability, liberating busy IT professionals from unnecessary complexity. Marathon is a privately held, venture-backed corporation based in Littleton, Massachusetts, USA, with offices worldwide. For more information please visit www.marathontechnologies.com or call 978-489-1100 or 888-682-1142.

About AimNet Solutions:

AimNet Solutions, which was acquired by Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), is a leading technology services organization that can define, design, deliver, secure, and manage mission critical networks. AimNet provides a suite of managed and professional services that enhance and compliment existing or planned network environments. AimNet Solutions has in excess of 1,000 clients of which over 450 they manage, monitor and secure 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For more information, please call (888) 332-5746 or send an email to info@aimnetsolutions.com.