Marathon Technologies announced the general availability of everRun VM , the fault-tolerant software for server virtualization. With the release of everRun VM, Marathon is eliminating one of the major barriers to broader server virtualization adoption – the lack of reliable high availability for virtual servers – and providing customers with the assurance that critical data, networks and applications will be protected in virtual server environments. The benefits of everRun VM’s approach enables companies to:

• Prevent outages and data loss in their virtual infrastructures
• Bring server virtualization’s cost and energy saving benefits to business critical and other production applications
• Deploy high availability and disaster recovery protection across the company – especially mid-market companies with no protection today

Citrix XenServer is a virtualization software platform that virtualizes application workloads across any number of servers in the datacenter as a flexible aggregated pool of computing resources. everRun VM is the automated, fault-tolerant 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 enterprises to deploy virtualization across a much broader array of applications.

Five Industry Firsts
everRun VM leap-frogs other high availability offerings for server virtualization by delivering the five industry firsts:

• First fault-tolerant, high availability software for virtual servers
• First fully automated HA solution for virtual servers
• First availability software that allows availability to be selected by VM
• First geographic fault-tolerance software
• First availability software designed and priced for broad adoption

“We’ve received an overwhelmingly positive response from beta customers and partners about the business and IT benefits that can be realized from everRun VM,” said Gary Phillips, president and CEO of Marathon Technologies. “The general availability of everRun VM means that companies can now reliably run high-value applications in virtual machines and gain the cost savings of server consolidation across a much broader range of applications. And because everRun VM completely automates setup and maintenance, we expect our customers will be able to significantly reduce their IT resource and operating costs.”