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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.”