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Analyst Opinions
"As the enterprise increasingly relies on Windows servers for their important business applications, its need for protection against the costs and consequences of server downtime also increases. Further, there is a need in the market for simpler, software-based availability solutions as traditional clustering solutions are quite complex and threaten the availability of the environment."
- Donna Scott, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
"The exceptional growth of the high availability market not only demonstrates companies’ crucial need to keep applications up and running, but reveals dramatic advancements that have been made to high availability solutions throughout the past few years. As enterprise IT organizations mature processes and technology deployments, IT services will require dynamic management that crosses the traditional silo environment."
- Stephen Elliot, research manager, Enterprise Systems Research, IDC
"With an entry-level prices under $10K and support for IBM's BladeCenter (Blade HS20), Marathon FTvirtual Server software could be called unstoppable as well as fault tolerant. Working with industry standard servers, unmodified Windows operation system (including Windows 2003) and any Windows application, this solution satisfies the key requirements of IT professionals for simplicity, affordability, and flexibility."
- Robert E. Desautels, President, Harvard Research
"EverRun HA nicely leverages their FT product to give a lower price and more flexibility to customers who are willing to trade off ultimate availability for a lower price and greater configuration flexibility."
- Gordon Haff, an analyst at Nashua, N.H.-based Illuminata Inc.
"In today's environment, availability is becoming a strategic competitive weapon. Companies must think beyond what they already know and consider new ways to ensure that their critical business process applications are always up and running. Cost effective elimination of downtime is of utmost importance to companies in all industries. Marathon's EverRun HA can help companies achieve and maintain the highest levels of application availability simply, transparently and affordably."
- William Hurley, senior analyst at leading research firm Data Mobility Group
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