Marathon Technologies Named "Best of Tech·Ed 2008 Finalist" for Bringing Fault-Tolerant, High Availability Software to Server Virtualization

Market Wire, June, 2008

Marathon Technologies , the only provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, announced today that it has been named as a finalist for the "Best of Tech·Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards" in the virtualization category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®. Marathon was awarded the distinction for developing everRun VM , the world's first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization. everRun® VM addresses one of the major factors that has limited the broader adoption of server virtualization -- a lack of simple and effective high availability technology for virtual environments.

"We are thrilled to be named a finalist for the Best of Tech·Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards," said Gary Phillips, president and CEO of Marathon Technologies. "Given all of the innovation that is happening in the virtualization market, it is significant that the judges understood the importance and value of everRun VM for IT professionals looking to gain the benefits of server virtualization across a much broader range of applications."

The Best of Tech·Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed more than 220 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech·Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners will be announced on June 12 at an evening reception for all of the finalists and at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards on June 13.

"Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge every year, and the quality of this year's entries was particularly high," said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. "The products selected as finalists clearly provide innovative solutions and strategic importance to the market, are competitively advantageous, and provide exceptional value to customers."

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 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 .

About Windows IT Media

Penton Media's Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Pro is the world's leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals. For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.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