Marathon Technologies and AimNet Solutions Ink Reseller Agreement.Alliance Enables Customers in Wide-Spectrum of Vertical Markets to Leverage Marathon's Virtualized 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 for Critical Applications LITTLETON, Mass. -- Marathon Technologies Corporation, the leading provider of high availability software for Microsoft([R]) Windows([R]) environments, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with AimNet Solutions, a managed network and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. company. Recently acquired by Cognizant (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CTSH), a leading provider of IT services, AimNet will offer Marathon's everRun line of high availability solutions, in conjunction with its suite of managed and professional services to its customers, which include companies serving the healthcare services, electrical utilities, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , retail, manufacturing and education markets. Under the terms of the agreement, AimNet will offer Marathon's everRun product line as an integrated part of its managed and professional services, and the two companies will work cooperatively to provide business continuity solutions to customers with 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. AimNet was attracted to Marathon's use of virtualization technologies See VT. See also virtualization. to make high availability solutions reliable and cost-effective. "Our customers have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a more affordable and flexible solution to high-availability and fault-tolerance," said Wayne Dunn, senior director of enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. at AimNet Solutions. "Marathon's offerings, which leverage cutting-edge virtualization technology, give us the ability to architect a solution that meets that criterion without specialized hardware and modified software. In addition, for the first time, we can provide customers with legacy applications that are not 'cluster aware' both fault-tolerance and high-availability in an infrastructure design that involves a standard OS. Marathon's products open up tremendous opportunities to serve our client base." "Our partnership with AimNet greatly expands Marathon's ability to penetrate a wide-variety of high-growth vertical markets," said Gary R. Phillips, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Marathon Technologies. "Working with Marathon enables AimNet to address the business continuity issues its customers are facing today and will face tomorrow." Marathon's everRun line of high availability products protects Microsoft Windows applications from leading sources of downtime 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. 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 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 AimNet Solutions: AimNet Solutions, which was acquired by Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), is a leading technology services organization that can define, design, deliver, secure, and manage mission critical networks. AimNet provides a suite of managed and professional services that enhance and compliment existing or planned network environments. AimNet Solutions has in excess of 1,000 clients of which over 450 they manage, monitor and secure 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For more information, please call (888) 332-5746 or send an email to info@aimnetsolutions.com. |
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