Marathon Technologies Names IGT 2006 Partner of the Year

Business Wire, Jan 16, 2007

Top Producing Partner Leads Reseller Channel in Sales of Marathon's everRun High Availability Solution; Demonstrates Commitment to Continuous Quality and Support

LITTLETON, Mass. -- Marathon Technologies Corporation, the leading provider of high availability software for Microsoft([R]) Windows([R]) environments, announced today that it has named IGT, the leading provider of computerized gaming machines and casino system products, 2006 Partner of the Year. Selected from more than 100 partners, IGT lead Marathon's global reseller channel in sales of everRun, Marathon's line of high availability solutions. IGT also demonstrated an ongoing commitment to providing customers in the gaming industry with continuous, high levels of support.

"We are proud to recognize IGT, which has shown an outstanding ability to identify and capitalize on sales opportunities for everRun, as our 2006 Partner of the Year," said Kristen Robinson, Vice President of Sales at Marathon Technologies. "I would like to thank IGT and the rest of our outstanding reseller channel for their exceptional work and dedication to driving the adoption of everRun throughout 2006. We look forward to a successful 2007 as our reseller channel continues to grow."

IGT has played a significant role in expanding Marathon's rapidly growing customer base in the gaming market. IGT distributes Marathon's everRun solution in conjunction with the IGT Advantage[TM] Casino System. Doing so ensures that IGT's Advantage[TM] customers have the highest possible levels of availability for their mission critical casino systems.

"We've had a great relationship with the Marathon team and are honored to be awarded the 2006 Partner of the Year," said Reed Alewel, Vice President of North American System Sales at IGT. "Marathon proved to be an excellent company with products that provide immense and immediate value to our customers."

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 and failures. The primary benefit to the end user is that applications continue to ComputeThru([R]) platform faults and failures, without needing to modify or script the application.

About Marathon Technologies

Marathon Technologies Corporation 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 IGT

International Game Technology (www.IGT.com) is a global company specializing in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and sales of computerized gaming machines and systems products.