Marathon Technologies Brings Fault Tolerant-class Availability to Virtual Environments with v-Available™ Initiative

Business Wire, April 17, 2007

Company to Fill Significant Gaps Left by Today's Traditional High Availability Offerings for Virtual Environments; Help Drive Adoption of Server Virtualization

LITTLETON, Mass. -- Marathon Technologies Corporation, the leading provider of automated, fault tolerant-class availability solutions for virtual and physical environments, today announced v-Available[TM], a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to bring fault tolerant-class availability to virtual environments. v-Available, which is aimed at exploiting a lack of effective availability technology for virtual environments, is the first solution that will provide companies with reliable protection for critical virtual workloads. This breakthrough announcement comes at a critical time for the mainstream adoption of server virtualization, which has achieved a less than ten percent deployment rate on x86 servers to date, according to leading analyst firm IDC.

"Although consolidation and legacy migration have been the primary motives for server virtualization, going forward we see high availability and disaster recovery for business resiliency as key reasons why organizations will deploy virtualization software," said John Humphreys, Program Director of IDC's Enterprise Virtualization program. "There is huge market appeal for technology providers that can deliver solutions that can address both planned and unplanned downtime in virtual environments - especially for mid-market and smaller companies."

Delivering on the promise of v-Available - bringing Marathon's everRun[TM] fault tolerant technology to virtual environments - Marathon has partnered with XenSource, the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen[TM] hypervisor. The integration of Marathon's everRun and XenSource's XenEnterprise[TM] software leap-frogs today's high availability offerings for virtual environments by providing fault tolerant-class availability solutions that are simple, comprehensive and cost-effective. Marathon and XenSource are working together to deliver a series of products, the first expected in the second half of 2007. See more news on the XenSource partnership at www.marathontechnologies.com/v-available.html.> Marathon is applying its 12 availability patents and over 14 year experience in engineering availability software solutions to the development of v-Available. With this new initiative, Marathon is enabling companies of any size to take advantage of fault tolerant, high availability and disaster recovery solutions for virtual machines simply, at low cost and with complete confidence.

Marathon is also introducing v-Available Certification, a program designed to help resellers become experts in combining virtualization and availability technology. See the news release on the v-Available Certification Program also announced today at www.marathontechnologies.com/v-available.html.> "v-Available is an unprecedented initiative that marks the first time companies will have access to FT-class availability for their virtual environments," said Gary Phillips, president and CEO at Marathon. "Through v-Available we will meet a significant market need and providing IT Administrators with the added assurance that critical and high-value virtual workloads will now be fully protected. We expect this initiative will also help to drive the adoption of server virtualization in mid-market companies and distributed offices."

Marathon has grown its customer base to include more than 1,200 companies. The company has also signed more than 125 reseller and other strategic partners that are key to expanding the company's reach in growing markets throughout the world.

Marathon's everRun line of fault tolerant software 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 prevent application downtime. The primary benefit to the end user is that they are protecting their business by ensuring continuity of operations - simply, at low cost and with complete confidence.

About Marathon Technologies

Marathon Technologies Corporation is driving the convergence of availability and virtualization technologies through its v-Available[TM] initiative. Marathon is the only company to deliver a complete range of automated, fault tolerant-class availability and disaster recovery software solutions for all essential Windows applications. The company's everRun[TM] product family protects businesses by ensuring continuity of operations in virtual and physical environments. Marathon is a privately held, venture-backed corporation based in Littleton, Massachusetts, USA, with offices worldwide. For more information please visit www.marathontechnologies.com, call 978-489-1100 or 888-682-1142.