Virtualization News Desk
Alternative Technology Adds Marathon Technologies Fault-Tolerant Virtualization
everRun VM High Availability / Disaster Recovery Software Complements Virtualization Offering for Citrix Resellers
May. 13, 2008 02:45 PM
Alternative Technology announced an agreement to distribute
Marathon Technologies everRun fault-tolerant, high availability software for
physical and virtual server environments.
Marathon’s everRun software is for IT professionals at midsize
companies and enterprises who want to prevent outages and data loss in their
physical and virtual infrastructures. everRun provides fault-tolerant, high
availability for Citrix XenServer and Windows Server 2003 to deliver uninterrupted
availability, data protection, and rapid recovery through a “one-click”
operation. Unlike bolt-on failover, cluster, or data replication products that
place the burden on the IT professional to manage and ensure high availability
and disaster recovery, everRun software is automated. It makes high
availability and disaster recovery easy to manage and cost effective for both
midsize companies and enterprises.
Included is
Marathon’s announced everRun VM,
the automated, fault-tolerant, high availability software for server
virtualization that is integrated with Citrix XenServer. The combination of
Citrix XenServer high-performance, easy-to-use virtualization hypervisor with
the proven automated availability of
Marathon’s
everRun software enables more organizations to deploy virtualization across a
much broader array of applications.
“Marathon’s everRun software is an important addition for our community of
Citrix resellers in
North America, who are
focused on delivering virtualization solutions,” said Tom Zorn, senior vice
president, Alternative Technology. “everRun’s patented Compute-Thru technology
is designed to prevent application downtime and data loss in customers’ Citrix
virtual infrastructures. Resellers can sell and install everRun VM on top of an
existing XenServer 4.1 Enterprise or Platinum Edition installation, or they can
sell an everRun VM - XenServer 4.1 Enterprise Edition bundle, and rely on the
high level of support our resellers have come to expect from us and our
partnership with Citrix. Alternative Technology does not separately distribute
XenServer from Citrix.”
“Alternative Technology brings substantial channel and market reach in the
Citrix community and a strong reputation for providing leading solutions and
technical services for virtualization," said Steve Keilen, vice president
of marketing at Marathon Technologies. “We look forward to working with
Alternative Technology to drive new opportunities and to bring our
award-winning high availability and disaster recovery software to enterprise
customers through their extensive channel relationships in
North
America.”
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