Recognition

Network World 10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch

Marathon Technologies was awarded for being one of the "Top Ten Virtualization Companies to Watch" by Network World. Marathon was honored for bringing fault tolerant-class availability to virtual environments. Marathon's v-Available defines the next generation of availability software for virtual environments.

Network World chose ten technology innovators who promise products that boost performance, make management easier or otherwise enhance your virtualization experience.

Best of VMWorld 2007 Award, New Technology

Marathon Technology's everRun for Citrix XenServer was named a "Best of VMworld Award" winner in the "New Technology" category for its initiative to provide companies of all sizes with effective availability software for virtual servers.

The Best of VMworld Award winners were selected from more than 100 exhibitors at the 2007 VMworld conference sponsored by virtualization software provider VMware Inc. The independent team of judges reviewed and evaluated about 120 products and chose winners based on innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

"By integrating everRun with XenServer, Marathon is enabling customers of any size to get simple, enterprise-grade virtualization solutions with fault tolerant application availability," said John Bara, vice president of marketing at XenSource (now Citrix).

CIO 10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2008

Marathon Technologies was selected as one of the Top Ten Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2008 for its everRun VM software by CIO, a leading IT publication. According to CIO, if your organization is deploying virtualization, Marathon Technologies is one of "10 virtualization vendors [that] should be on your radar screen."

CIO Magazine selected companies that were "up-and-coming vendors who add significant value to the virtualization stack."

Computerworld Honors Program 2008 Laureate

Marathon Technologies was selected as a 2008 Laureate by IDG's Computerworld Honors Program. Marathon was awarded this distinction for developing new software, everRun VM.

The Computerworld Honors Program recognizes and documents the achievements of individuals and organizations around the world, whose visionary applications of information technology promote positive social, economic and educational change. Each year, members of the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee, a group of 100 Chairmen/CEOs from leading global IT companies, submit nominations for organizations they feel demonstrated extraordinary use of information technology in 10 distinct categories of industry-related endeavor. Marathon was nominated by Morgan Stanley.

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MITX 2008 Technology Awards Finalist

Marathon Technologies was named a finalist for the Fifth Annual Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) Technology Awards. Marathon was awarded the distinction for developing everRun VM, the world's first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization.

The MITX 2008 Technology Awards "recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements." MITX is a Boston-based New England association that brings together digital marketing, media and technology professionals to engage in what's next for the web and how it impacts the marketing and business worlds.

Best of Tech ED 2008 IT Professional Award Finalist

Marathon Technologies was 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.

"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."

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.

eWeek Excellence Award Winner

Marathon Technologies was named the winner in eWEEK's Eighth Annual Excellence Awards for infrastructure software. Marathon was awarded the distinction in the infrastructure software category for developing everRun VM, the world's first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization. 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.

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides the benchmark by which enterprise IT professionals can assess a wide range of technology products and services based on innovation, cost effectiveness, manageability, and secureability.

"eWEEK editors culled through hundreds of entries to select the IT products and services that are best-suited to enterprises' changing—and increasingly demanding—requirements."

CRN 2008 Emerging Tech Vendors

Marathon Technologies was selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Tech vendor for developing everRun VM, which addresses one of the major factors holding back broader adoption of server virtualization - a lack of automated and reliable high availability software to reliably protect essential applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL and SharePoint in physical and virtual environments.

CRN's Emerging Tech list highlights companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants.

"New and innovative vendor partners can help spur profitable new ideas that solution providers can use to build revenue and customer loyalty, and the CRN Emerging Tech list is where solution providers go to find these vendors," said Robert C. Demarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel editorial.

Fast Company Fast 50 Readership Poll Winner

Marathon was rated the #1 innovative company by readers of Fast Company in the 2008 Fast Company Fast 50 Readership Poll. Fast Company's readers nominated 121 companies for their leading innovation this year. Readers and customers chose Marathon Technologies as #1 on the list.

Windows IT Pro Editors Best of 2008 — Bronze Winner

The editors of Windows IT Pro selected everRun VM as an "Editor's Best 2008" bronze winner in the virtualization category. everRun VM for Citrix XenServerTM is the first in the series of v-Available products from Marathon that are so simple, transparent and effective that every application can have high availability and disaster recovery protection.

"Windows IT Pro Magazine's Editor's Best Awards honor products that our editors and contributors have identified as best of breed in their respective categories. These winning products provide exceptional value, top-notch performance and are of strategic importance to the market. All these award winners can help IT professionals do their jobs faster and more effectively," said Jeff James, senior editor, Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine

Channel Network Awards 2008 Finalist

Marathon Technologies UK was awarded for being a "vendor who has developed a channel program that has enabled its resellers to increase their business profitability by using the vendor's products."

"Entries this year were up by more than 30% and the quality of the entries was exceptional," commented John Chapman, entries and judging organizer. "The judges had a tough time selecting the finalists from so many excellent entries. It never ceases to amaze me how innovative and diligent the channels are when providing solutions for their clients."