Marathon Technologies is introducing two new products, including EverRun VM Lockstep, designed to provide system-level, fault-tolerant software for virtual environments. VMware and other IT companies have also been exploring solutions for high availability within the virtual environment.Marathon
Technologies is releasing two new products, EverRun VM Lockstep for Citrix
XenServer, system-level, fault-tolerant software for virtual environments, and
EverRun 2G, a software platform designed to expand upon the capabilities of two
other company products, EverRun HA and EverRun FT.
The companys previous virtual environment solution was EverRun
VM, software that worked with Citrix XenServer and allowed its users to
choose from different levels of failover protection.
EverRun VM Lockstep provides full system-level, fault-tolerant
protection for applications running on virtual machines, by ensuring that those
applications will run on another server in the virtual pool should the original
server fail. The software runs on Citrix XenServer and Citrix Essentials for
XenServer.
EverRun 2G serves as the companys successor to its EverRun
HA and EverRun FT solutions; the high-availability software is tailored for
Windows Server environments, and supports both 32- and 64-bit Windows
applications. It features three levels of availability: automated high
availability, component-level fault tolerance and system-level fault tolerance.
Marathon
has traditionally offered high-availability software for Microsoft
applications, along with a portfolio of disaster-recovery and data
protection software. The companys EverRun CDP (continuous data protection)
software works with standard server, networking and storage environments, with
specific options for Microsoft products including Exchange and Windows Server.
Marathons portfolio includes high-availability software for
the XenSource enterprise platform. It also produces EverRun VM software for
virtual environments that works with Citrix XenServer.
Moving high-availability capability into the virtual realm
has been an increasing goal of IT companies supplying the enterprise as more and
more large organizations embrace virtualization as an efficiency measure. In
February 2009, VMware introduced the VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat tool, designed
to protect the VMware vCenter Server against downtime issues by replicating
server configuration and data onto a passive server.