Marathon Technologies announced that Jerry Melnick, its chief technology officer, will be a featured speaker at the Third International Virtualization Conference and Expo hosted by SYS-CON Media, June 23-24 in New York City. Melnick's presentation, "Are Your Applications v-Available?" will discuss what IT professionals need to do to deploy reliable, automated high availability for virtual servers, and how this new approach can help them prevent outages and data loss -- instead of just planning for recovery.

Melnick's presentation will examine how and why deploying a new approach to high availability for virtual servers can help companies:

• Bring virtualization's benefits to business critical applications
• Protect applications not protected today - simply and cost- effectively
• Gain a better ROI from their investment in server virtualization

Attendees to the "Current Directions" track will also see presentations on the effective uses of virtualization today and tomorrow from Intel, 3Leaf Systems, Novell and GigaSpace.

What: "Are Your Applications v-Available?"
Track: Current Directions, 3rd International Virtualization Conference and Expo
Who: Jerry Melnick, CTO, Marathon Technologies
Where: Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th Street, New York City, NY When: Monday, June 23 at 5:35-6:20 pm ET

The 3rd International Virtualization Conference and Expo is the leading event covering the booming market of virtualization as it continues to be the cornerstone technology for enterprise IT. The two-day event will host CEOs, CTOs, senior architects, project managers and technology evangelists with networking and educational opportunities to hear from the industry's leading experts in featured presentations, breakout sessions and industry discussion panels.