LITTLETON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/28/09 -- Marathon Technologies, the only provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, will co-present the live webcast, "Direct from Microsoft - The Top 10 Reasons you Should Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 Now," featuring Microsoft Executive David Hanna. Windows Server 2008 delivers new functionality and powerful improvements to the core operating system to help organizations of all sizes increase control and manageability, provide high availability, and have more flexibility for their most demanding business applications. In combination with Marathon's everRun® automated high availability software, Windows Server 2008 enables IT professionals to extend high availability protection to their critical applications with fewer resources and at lower cost than Unix or proprietary platforms.

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

Date:      Thursday, July 30, at 8:30 am PDT, 11:30 am EDT, 3:30 pm GMT

Speakers:  David Hanna, Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft Corporation and
           Michael Bilancieri, Sr. Director of Products, Marathon
           Technologies

Sign up:   Register online: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/353435360

In the live webcast, Hanna and Bilancieri will highlight:

--  The new Web tools, virtualization technologies, security enhancements,
    and management utilities available in Windows Server 2008
--  The top 10 reasons you should upgrade to Windows 2008
--  How to extend the high availability features of Windows Server 2008 to
    fault-tolerant protection with Marathon's everRun software
--  Why organizations can now confidently migrate mission critical
    applications from Unix or proprietary platforms and realize significant
    cost savings
    

David Hanna is an infrastructure architect with Microsoft Corporation where he has been since 2005. In this role, David works with Microsoft's customers to provide in-depth technical information, architectural designs, and proof-of-concept environments. David has broad infrastructure experience including directories, systems management, messaging, high availability, identity management, application integration, database, storage, web, and disaster recovery solutions. David is an MCSE in Windows 2003, is ITIL Foundations Certified and a Six Sigma Green Belt.

Michael Bilancieri is an expert in disaster recovery and high availability technologies and best practices. He directs Marathon's multi-award winning everRun software product strategy. Michael has over ten years experience in high availability and disaster recovery software engineering, presales engineering, professional services, product management and product marketing with Marathon and DoubleTake Software.

About Marathon Technologies

With more than 2500 global customers, Marathon is the world's first provider of fault-tolerant, automated, high availability and disaster recovery software for physical and virtual servers. Marathon everRun® software prevents outages and data loss -- without IT intervention or specialized IT skills. Organizations using everRun achieve continuous availability, 100% data protection, and rapid disaster recovery -- all through automated "click-to-protect" operation. In the past 18 months, the company has been recognized with more than a dozen major industry awards including Best of VMworld 2007 - New Technology, SearchServerVirtualization 2008 Products of the Year, CIO.com "10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2009." The company was also recognized as a 2008 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate, a winner in eWEEK's Eighth Annual Excellence Awards Program and finalist for 2009 Citrix Ready Solution of the Year. For more information visit www.marathontechnologies.com

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