Marathon Technologies Corp. was founded by senior executives and engineers responsible for developing

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systems. The team used this experience to create the first software and networking technology that allowed multiple

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servers to operate as a single fault-tolerant system. Marathon Technologies migrated its technology in 2004 to a software-only product named everRun that works with standard off-the-shelf x86

and

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servers with

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and unmodified Windows applications. In 2007, Marathon Technologies announced its v-Available product initiative, designed to fill the gap in the market for effective

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software for server

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. In the spring of 2008 the company released everRun VM for

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XenServer the first in the series of v-Available products from Marathon Technologies that provides fault-tolerant high availability and

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protection. In late 2010, Marathon released everRun MX, the industry's first software-based fault tolerant solution for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and multi-core servers and applications. Marathon Technologies is headquartered in Littleton, MA, United States with additional offices in the

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. Marathon Technologies has taken venture funding from

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, Longworth Venture Partners and venture capital firm Sierra Ventures. Marathon Technologies was acquired by

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in September 2012.

References

External links

Official Website

Official Blog

24/7 Uptime - UK elite partner

Stratus acquisition
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