Marathon Technologies Named Finalist for 2009 Citrix Ready Solution of the Year
Citrix Recognizes Marathon’s Commitment to Helping Customers Meet their Application Availability Needs
Littleton, Mass. — April 29, 2009 — Marathon Technologies today announced that it has been named a finalist for the Citrix Ready Solution of the Year award by Citrix® Systems Inc. The Citrix Ready Solution of the Year Award, which recognizes companies that excel in delivering solutions that are complementary to Citrix and also drive adoption of Citrix application infrastructure solutions, will be announced during Citrix Summit 2009, the premier training conference designed exclusively for Citrix partners worldwide. Marathon’s multi-award winning everRun VM software provides completely automated fault-tolerant, high availability for Citrix XenServerTMand Citrix XenAppTM.
“We are pleased to recognize Marathon Technologies as one of the finalists for the 2009 Citrix Ready Solution of the Year award,” said John Fanelli, vice president of solutions and community marketing at Citrix. “Teaming with Marathon has enabled us to provide our customers with a range of tightly integrated availability solutions.”
Marathon was selected as a finalist for this award based on five selection criteria: impact on Citrix business, commitment to its relationship with Citrix, customer satisfaction, channel and field commitment, and marketing commitment.
“We have worked closely with Citrix Systems to help remove complexity for today’s IT professionals by offering automated availability software that seamlessly scales from advanced HA to full system fault tolerance, reduces application availability management and delivers the best value,” said Gary Phillips, president and CEO of Marathon Technologies. “We are honored to be named a finalist for the Citrix Ready Solution of the Year and to be showcased within the Citrix alliance and channel ecosystem.”
About the Citrix Ready Program
The Citrix Ready Program is designed to enable Citrix customers to identify products that have been verified to work together, thereby ensuring the highest quality end-user experience with the Citrix Delivery Center. All products featured in the Citrix Ready catalogue have completed verification testing, providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. The Citrix Ready Program currently includes more than 800 products from 150 companies verified as part of the Citrix Ready Program;, nearly 1200 products in 8000 instances documented in the Citrix Ready Community Verified Program; and, 2200 companies enrolled in the Citrix Technology Member Program. Citrix Ready Program member benefits include branding, the online product catalog, quarterly webinars with product managers and joint solution marketing opportunities. Citrix Ready participation generates new revenue opportunities, improves customer satisfaction, and increases mindshare leveraging the Citrix brand.
About Marathon Technologies
With more than 2200 global customers, Marathon is the world’s first and only provider of fault-tolerant, automated, high availability and disaster recovery software for physical and virtual servers. Marathon’s everRun® software prevents outages and data loss – without IT intervention or specialized IT skills. Organizations using everRun achieve continuous high availability, 100% data protection, and rapid disaster recovery – all through “one-click” operation. In the past 18 months, the company has been awarded more than a dozen major industry accolades including “Best of VMworld 2007 – New Technology”, “SearchServerVirtualization 2008 Products of the Year,” CIO.com “10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2009.” The company was also recognized as a 2008 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate and a winner in eWEEK's Eighth Annual Excellence Awards Program. For more information visit www.marathontechnologies.com.
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Contacts:
Brian Keith Mullins
Marathon Technologies Corp.
978.489.1146
bmullins@marathontechnologies.com
Lynda Sylvia
Racepoint Group Inc.
781.487.4619
lsylvia@racepointgroup.com
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