Marathon Announces Distributor Agreement for Japan.Uniadex, Ltd. to Offer Marathon's High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. Solutions, Services and Support; Will Coordinate with Dell Japan on Marathon Sales Initiatives in the Country LITTLETON, Mass. -- Marathon Technologies Corporation, the leading provider of high availability software for Microsoft([R]) Windows([R]) environments, announced today that Uniadex, Ltd. has joined Marathon's partner network as a Distributor and Services Provider in Japan. Uniadex will distribute, sell, support and market Marathon's everRun line of high availability products and will work closely with Dell Japan to drive sales of the Marathon solutions on Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Servers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Uniadex is a leader in planning, designing and developing information and communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. systems. The company specializes in integration, installation and support of computer systems, and related services. "Working with Marathon gives us an opportunity to augment our current IT offerings with cost-effective, reliable high availability solutions," said Mitumasa Okamoto, Corporate Officer of Uniadex. "Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details. have longed for an alternative to traditional clustering solutions to keep their applications up and running. Through this agreement, we can meet their demands and provide them with Marathon's cutting-edge high availability solutions. In addition, working in collaboration with Dell will enable us to further accelerate the adoption of Marathon's technology in Japan." Uniadex, which has branch offices in Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka as well as eight other regional offices throughout Japan, will provide distribution, support and training to enable the rapid growth and adoption of Marathon's everRun line of high availability solutions in Japan. "We are pleased that Marathon and Uniadex have formed a joint partnership in support of offering Marathon solutions on Dell PowerEdge Servers," said Yuji Morohara, Corporate Director of Dell Inc. and Director of Solution Service Delivery, Dell Japan Inc. "We are looking forward to deploying these solutions to our customers who we are confident will take full advantage of the high availability innovations offered by Marathon's everRun products." Marathon's everRun line of high availability products protects Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. applications from unplanned downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. while eliminating the need for costly and complex failover processes, specialized applications, or proprietary server hardware. Turnkey, automated, and simplicity are the cornerstones of the everRun line, which uses embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. intelligent policy management to resolve faults & failures. The primary benefit to the end user is that applications continue to ComputeThru([R]) platform faults & failures, without needing to modify or script the application. "Uniadex has the deep domain expertise and the reach to help expand our business in the Japanese market which is extremely important to us," said Gary Phillips Gary Phillips may refer to:
About Marathon Technologies: Marathon Technologies Corporation, the fastest growing high availability company, defines what's next after clusters -- Infinite Availability[TM]. Moving beyond traditional high availability, Marathon sets a new standard for application availability using its patented virtualization technology See VT. See also virtualization. that embraces off-the-shelf servers, Windows and business process applications. Marathon's everRun[TM] product family delivers a completely automatic path to application availability, liberating busy IT professionals from unnecessary complexity. Marathon is a privately held, venture-backed corporation based in Littleton, Massachusetts Littleton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,184 at the 2000 census. For geographic and demographic information on the neighborhood of Littleton Common, please see the article Littleton Common, Massachusetts. , USA, with offices worldwide. For more information please visit www.marathontechnologies.com or call 978-489-1100 or 888-682-1142. About Uniadex, Ltd. (www.uniadex.co.jp) Uniadex, Ltd. was established in 1997 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nihon Unisys, Ltd. to take over Nihon Unisys' network related and open service network businesses. Currently Uniadex is operating IT management services, IT support services, IT facility services as well as network integration services after strong mergers in Nihon Unisys group. With 2,324 employees, global IT infrastructure support in over 150 countries and revenues of 87 billion yen in FY2005, UNIADEX is a leader in planning, designing and developing information and communication network systems. |
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