Marathon Technologies and Sky IT Group Sign Distribution Agreement; Alliance Reflects Marathon's Ability to Serve Small, Mid Size and Fortune 1000 Firms; Demonstrates Growing Corporate Demand for High Availability Solutions

Business Wire, June 20, 2006

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 Sky IT Group, a Premier IBM Business Partner. The alliance was facilitated through joint participation in Arrow Electronics, Inc.'s (NYSE: ARW) Enterprise Computing Solutions Program. Sky IT Group will offer Marathon's everRun line of high availability solutions, in conjunction with IBM products to customers, which range from small to medium sized businesses to Fortune 1000 corporations.

Under the terms of the agreement, Sky IT will offer Marathon's everRun product line with IBM's System x (xSeries) products, and the two companies will work cooperatively to provide business continuity solutions to customers with Microsoft Windows applications. As a Premier IBM Business Partner, Sky IT Group is committed to its customer base, providing reliable, scalable and secure IT infrastructure to its clients to ensure innovative, high performance.

"To effectively compete in today's economy, it is critical that businesses have full time access to their critical business applications," said Jay Hakami, president of Sky IT Group. "With Marathon's high availability solution, we are able to cost effectively provide our customers with added protection against unplanned downtime."

"Our partnership with Sky IT Group represents the expanding demand from businesses of all sizes for high availability solutions that protect Windows business process applications," said Gary R. Phillips, president and CEO of Marathon Technologies. "Offering our everRun line of high availability products in conjunction with IBM solutions enables Sky IT to address the business continuity issues its customers are facing today,"

Sky IT offers a packaged HA solution for MS Exchange enabling business continuity to companies where their email application is critical to their operations. Combining Marathon's everRun products with IBM System x and HA implementation services, Sky IT Group assures Exchange users of reduced downtime resulting in lower operating costs, increased productivity and customer satisfaction.

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 SKY IT Group:

Located in New York City, Sky I.T. Group (www.skyitgroup.com) is a privately held technology solution provider that helps businesses maximize their IT investments. Sky I.T. develops solutions based on IBM iSeries and xSeries servers and related peripherals, IBM-compliant operating systems, and middleware applications. Consulting services include existing IBM-based technology optimization, IBM on-demand solutions, and technology migrations. The company serves clients across all vertical markets, but has a particular emphasis with retail, manufacturing and distribution clients ranging in size from SMB to Fortune 2000. Call 1-866-SKY-3500 for more information.