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Webinars from Marathon provide advice from experts in disaster recovery, high availability and virtualization. Learn how to virtualize your systems quickly and easily from technology analysts at Burton Group, Forrester Research and IDC as well leaders at Citrix and Marathon. You can also check our events and webinars page to find out about upcoming live webinars.

Windows Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery

  • From Major Disasters to Minor Disruptions: How to Ensure an "Always-on" Infrastructure

    Organizations have implemented disaster recovery plans that typically focus on preparedness for a major disaster. While enterprises need to be prepared for ”the big one,” the reality is that systems usually go down as the result of far less dramatic events, like network failures, disk crashes, or quick power outages. For these minor glitches, do you really want to restart your system at your disaster recovery location thousands of miles away? Do you really want to deal with business interruptions, potential data loss, and significant reconfiguration efforts every time you encounter a minor system failure?
     
    View this webinar hosted by Rob Ciampa, vice president of Marketing, Marathon Technologies, and learn the important technology distinctions of fault tolerance, high availability and disaster recovery (and why it’s critical to know the difference); and review Marathon’s everRun® technology options along with real-world deployment examples. 

  • How to Cut Risks and Costs with a Downtime Analysis and Action Plan

    When faced with the task of assessing the risks and impact of downtime, many companies either don't know where to start, or simply decide to live with the unknowns and hope that nothing bad happens. But what you don't know can hurt you, and discovering the consequences of downtime after the fact can be very costly. The good news is that the assessment process doesn't have to be complex to be effective. This 45-minute webinar provides some simple and clear-cut steps that you can take today to uncover your risks and put measures in place to minimize the impact of downtime.

     

  • Cut Your DR Costs and Get Better Data Protection

    The very nature of disaster recovery (DR) means downtime and data loss, which is affected by how long it takes to restore a system, redeploy applications and recover data. In other words, during a disaster, time clicks the dollars away. Join Frank Ohlhorst, former Executive Technical Editor for eWeek and award-winning IT expert, for this 30-minute webinar where he reviews why now is the time to rethink DR and take a closer look at high availability (HA) and business continuity (BC) solutions to replace DR as the first line of defense against events that can interrupt business operations.

     

  • High Availability on a (Government) Budget

    Learn how to Protect Vital Public Services with Limited IT Staff and Budget Resources. Watch this webinar to learn tips and tricks that government agencies can take today to ensure optimal availability for their critical applications at minimal cost. Find out how the Brookline Police Department kept their 911 system available – even during a hardware failure on Christmas day when no IT staff were on duty and How the City of Santa Rosa Utilities Department protects its water treatment facility against outages from earthquakes, power outages and other natural disaster.

     

  • Best Practices for Preventing Downtime in Automation Systems

    If you’re involved with managing process automation systems for pharmaceuticals, oil & gas, power generation and delivery, and other industries, you know the complexity of your IT systems can often create failures and indecision that result in downtime. Join ARC Advisory Group Research Director Craig Resnick for this 45-minute webinar to learn about the best practices that you can put in place today to prevent downtime.

     

  • Finding a Cure for Downtime

    Adoption of electronic medical records, picture archiving (PACS) and other health information systems is on the rise, while at the same time regulatory mandates such as HIPAA require strict control over patient data. As healthcare information systems become an increasingly integral part of the delivery of patient care, tolerance for application downtime is approaching zero. This webinar will outline seven key steps that you can take today to protect the availability of your critical information and records systems, including how to reduce the #1 source of downtime - human error and how to protect against hardware, storage and network failures. We will also share real-world examples of healthcare organizations that reduced downtime using everRun software from Marathon.

     

  • Application Availability for Branch or Remote Locations

    Keeping your IT infrastructure up and running is always challenging, but can be particularly tricky for remote locations where you probably have little or no IT staff. If you’re responsible for supporting critical applications at remote or branch locations, such as retail stores, banks, hotels, financial services firms and others, this is a must-attend webinar. Forrester senior analyst and availability expert Stephanie Balaouras reviews her recent research on this topic and provide her Top 5 best practices for optimizing availability at your remote locations including reducing human error through proper planning and documentation, measuring availability from the end user perspective, and automating your HA systems.

     

  • A Simpler Approach to SharePoint High Availability

    Protecting SharePoint via traditional methods can be difficult because of its complex implementation architecture, which requires a six-server farm to protect the front-end IIS Web server, the SharePoint application server and the back-end SQL database server. View this webinar to learn about a simplified, cost-effective approach to SharePoint high availability using Marathon’s everRun high availability software.

     

  • High Availability Doesn't Need to be Expensive

    Windows Server applications are at the very core of small and mid-size business operations powering everything from email, to order processing and other customer and productivity applications. Lacking the big budgets and IT staff of larger organizations, many small and mid-size businesses struggle to reach the goal of 100% uptime. So how do you protect email and other critical applications from downtime in an "always-on" world that expects 24x7 availability? Join us for this 45-minute webinar where we will review:

    • How to evaluate your specific risks for planned and unplanned downtime
    • An action plan to better align your IT resources to achieve your SLAs for uptime
    • How you can achieve 24x7 "always-on" affordable fault-tolerant protection with Marathon's everRun software
     

  • Windows Server 2008 High Availability: Technology Comparison

    Based on the findings of a recent report from Realtime Publishers, this webinar will give you a solid foundation of what you need to know as you plan your high availability strategies for Windows Server 2008, including the latest information on Microsoft clustering, data replication, virtualization and synchronized systems.

     

  • Direct from Microsoft - The Top 10 Reasons you Should Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 Now

    Hear it straight from David Hanna of Microsoft – the top 10 reasons why Windows Server 2008 can help organizations of all sizes increase control and manageability, provide high availability, and have more flexibility for their most demanding business applications. And by combining Windows Server 2008 with Marathon’s everRun fault tolerant protection, you can migrate your mission critical applications with confidence, and achieve significant cost savings over expensive Unix or proprietary platforms.

     

  • 4 Simple Steps For Preventing Downtime

    IT process management expert Niel Nickolaisen reviews his proven change management best practices and how IT departments can reduce downtime by as much as 70 percent without requiring any additional budget for resources or technology. This is one of our most popular webinars to date – don’t miss it!

     

SQL Server High Availability

  • SQL Server Availability Guide

    Our SQL Server Availability Guide is a resource for the SQL Server professional and  packed with sound advice for eliminating downtime. View this On-Demand webinar, “Introduction to Marathon Technologies SQL Server Availability Guide” for an overview of the guide including:

    • Application availability requirements of the always-on world.
    • New levels of availability SQL Server pros can implement now to meet organizational requirements.
    • The full range of availability options, from traditional fail and recover HA products and approaches to the latest symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and multi-core fault tolerant software.
    • The difference between local SQL Server availability options and disaster recovery

  • Beyond Clustering: The Future of Always-On SQL Server Availability

    Noted IT author and Microsoft MVP, Don Jones, looks at the future of SQL Server Availability. Discover the fault tolerant remedy to cluster headaches, high availability hangovers and other fail and recover stressors. Don discusses traditional availability techniques, including basic virtualization and Windows clustering, and presents his requirements for true "always-on" SQL Server, listing specific capabilities such as software-based fault tolerance to build a SQL Server infrastructure that simply never fails. 

  • Five Steps to SQL Server Availability

    Unplanned SQL Server downtime means interrupted access to crucial business applications and databases. This can harm an organization’s productivity, brand and relationships, resulting in lost revenue. Prevent downtime, don’t just react to it. View this on-demand webinar to learn:

    • The distinct roles of fault tolerance (FT) and disaster recovery (DR)
    • The difference between local SQL Server availability options and disaster recovery
    • Using automation and monitoring to eliminate downtime caused by human error
    • Techniques for improving IT Services Continuity Management and Business Continuity Planning
    • Best practices for testing your IT infrastructure and protecting SQL Server
    • The performance,flexibility and cost advantages FT software has over high availability (HA) approaches such as clustering and FT hardware

    Speaker: Bob Boule, Director of Product Management, Marathon Technologies

  • SQL Availability: Protecting Your Database and Applications

    Stephen Wynkoop, SQL Server MVP and founder of SSWUG.org, helps IT administrators understand SQL backup and restore options and also presents his Concentric Rings of Recovery plan, which covers the four levels of preparedness for local, alternate, off-site and remote locations. Marathon then explains how to tailor the levels of availability based on your needs, risks and budget.

     

Exchange Server High Availability

  • 5 Low Cost Tips for Protecting Exchange from Downtime

    Windows Server applications are at the very core of small and mid-size business operations, powering everything from the essential Exchange email server, to critical order processing applications and customer databases. Lacking the big budgets and IT staff of larger organizations, many small and mid-size businesses struggle to reach the goal of 100% uptime. So how do you protect email and other critical applications from downtime in an “always-on” world that expects 24x7 availability?

     

  • Optimizing Exchange High Availability A New Approach

    Exchange server high availability involves more than just protecting the mailbox server. You need to protect your entire Exchange environment. But over-protection can waste valuable system resources, while under-protection can result in costly downtime. Watch this webinar to learn a new approach that allows you to tailor the levels of availability by user groups and Exchange components for more effective Exchange high availability.

     

  • Virtualizing Exchange The Cold Hard Numbers on Why Citrix XenServer everRun VM is the Best Platform

    View this webcast to discover the cold, hard benchmark numbers that demonstrate Citrix XenServer's native 64-bit performance advantage for Exchange scalability and flexibility, and why Marathon’s everRun VM software is an essential component for XenServer to keep Exchange users continuously connected. Presented by Matt Fairbanks, VP Product Marketing, Citrix Systems and Jerry Melnick, CTO, Marathon Technologies.

     

XenApp High Availability

  • Virtualize and Fortify XenApp for Lower Costs Higher SLAs

    Presented by XenApp and XenServer experts direct from Citrix, watch this webinar to learn how virtualizing Citrix XenApp with Citrix XenServer helps you lower operating expenses by consolidating XenApp servers, increase IT flexibility by provisioning XenApp across physical and virtual servers, and enable zero-downtime maintenance with XenMotion live migration. Marathon will also discuss how to protect your Citrix License Server and Data Store from downtime with automated availability.

     

Server Virtualization High Availability

  • How to Get at Least 2x Greater Cost Savings from Server Virtualization

    There are three straightforward steps that companies are implementing today to achieve aggressive costs savings with their server virtualization initiatives. This webinar will explore these three steps in more detail, along with two real-world customer use cases of companies that have confidently run many more of their applications in virtual machines to achieve a much greater ROI from their virtualization investments.

     

  • Fault Tolerant Virtual Servers in 10 Minutes or Less

    Join HP, Citrix and Marathon for this webinar discussing an integrated virtualization solution that is fast to deploy, easy to manage and always on for business critical applications running in virtual environments. Find out why HP, Citrix and Marathon provide the best virtualization solution for enterprise organizations that want to achieve 100% availability for business critical applications running in virtual environments.

     

  • Virtualizing Exchange The Cold Hard Numbers on Why Citrix XenServer everRun VM is the Best Platform

    View this webcast to discover the cold, hard benchmark numbers that demonstrate Citrix XenServer's native 64-bit performance advantage for Exchange scalability and flexibility, and why Marathon’s everRun VM software is an essential component for XenServer to keep Exchange users continuously connected. Presented by Matt Fairbanks, VP Product Marketing, Citrix Systems and Jerry Melnick, CTO, Marathon Technologies.

     

  • The Best of VMworld Approach to Protecting Virtual Machines

    Presenters: Chris Wolf, Analyst – Burton Group, Simon Crosby, CTO – Citrix, Jerry Melnick, CTO – Marathon Technologies
     

  • Making the Business Case for Virtualization It's Not Just For Server Consolidation Anymore

    Presenters: John Humphreys, Program Vice President – IDC, Simon Crosby, CTO – Citrix, Jerry Melnick, CTO – Marathon Technologies