Marathon Technologies Partners with Citrix's Biggest EMEA Distributor to Challenge VMWare
Marathon Technologies and Citrix partner to provide companies with an alternative virtualization solution to VMWare and offer fault-tolerant class availability
Berkshire, UK, 10 December 2007— Marathon Technologies, a leading provider of automated, fault tolerant-class availability solutions for virtual and physical environments, today announces a partnership with ADN, EMEA’s biggest distributor of Citrix systems. The partnership has been created to challenge VMWare’s dominance in the EMEA region, providing companies with an alternative virtualisation solution in XenServer.
By combining ADN’s expertise in thin-client technologies with Citrix’s newly acquired XenServer hypervisor and Marathon’s fault tolerant-class availability, the companies are providing a full thin-client package for enterprise and medium sized companies. ADN will also be offering virtualised platforms using Citrix XenServer Enterprise and Marathon independently of the thin-client environment.
Udo Schillings, ADN head of marketing, comments: “We decided to collaborate with Marathon because of the unparalleled technical capabilities of the everRun series. The products are easy to integrate to an existing infrastructure and easy to use from an administrative point of view. Above all, whilst they can provide complete fault-tolerance, an organisation has the liberty to choose the level of availability required for individual applications. Also, because of both Marathon’s and our own partnerships with XenSource, there is a perfect strategic fit between ADN and Marathon.”
ADN is currently recruiting new resellers to start selling the forthcoming XenServer Enterprise virtualisation platform in the EMEA market, starting with Germany. Schillings points out that the vast majority companies still have not yet adopted virtualisation, and that there is clearly still space for competitive alternatives to the current market leader. Schillings adds that because VMWare is not looking to extend its current reseller base, ADN is in a strong position to begin promoting XenSource and Marathon in Germany through resellers who want to be part of this growing trend.
He says: “Despite the benefits of virtualisation, such as cost savings, ease of management and energy efficiency, many organisations have been reluctant to transition their critical workloads from a physical to a virtual environment because of a lack of fault tolerant-class availability solutions available. Because VMWare environments are all proprietary, fault tolerant solutions for these environments are also proprietary, and there is no opportunity to choose a best of breed solution. With XenServer you’re free to choose the best available add-on solution – which is what we have with Marathon.”
Nick Turnbull, Marathon’s EMEA Director, comments, “In April this year, Marathon formed a strategic and technology-based partnership with XenSource, which was recently acquired by Citrix in an historic $500m deal. Now, this new partnership between Marathon and ADN enables the companies to provide organisations with unprecedented protection for their business-critical, virtualised workloads. It’s a perfect match, particularly with Citrix’s thin-client applications added to the mix, an environment that demands high-, if not fault-tolerant availability of its servers.”
About Marathon Technologies
Marathon Technologies Corporation is driving the convergence of availability and virtualization technologies through its v-Available™ initiative. The company won a “Best of VMworld 2007 – New Technology” award for bringing fault tolerant availability to virtual machines. Marathon is the only company to deliver a complete range of automated, fault tolerant-class availability and disaster recovery software solutions for all essential Windows applications. The company’s everRun™ product family protects businesses by ensuring continuity of operations in virtual and physical environments. Marathon is a privately held, venture-backed corporation based in Littleton, Massachusetts, USA, with offices worldwide. For more information visit www.marathontechnologies.com, call 978-489-1100 or 888-682-1142.
About ADN
ADN is a value added distributor in central Europe specialised in server-based computing, thin-clients, high-speed WAN-performance, network communication, VoIP and security solutions as well as in developing tools and SQL databases. With leading vendors such as Citrix Systems, Marathon Technologies, AppSense, ThinPrint, Igel, Neoware, Packeteer, GFI Software, Webwasher, Secure Computing, SonicWALL, Securepoint, Swyx, Sybase and Gupta Technologies, ADN focuses on high-end technologies and products. The value added services such as technical training and certifications, workshops, hotline, pre- and post- sales support, evaluations, integration services and MDF assure ADN partners an important advantage against their competitors. ADN supports a strictly 2-tier channel model and ships only to system integrators, resellers, VARs, ISVs and ASPs. The company was founded in 1994 and is placed in Bochum, Vienna (headquarters and logistics), with additional trainings centres in Leinfelden (Stuttgart), Neumünster and Nürnberg
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Contacts:
Kersti Klami/Sian Aherne
Fuse PR
+44(0)208 752 3200
marathon@fusepr.com
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