Marathon Technologies to Present Three Tips to Increasing Cost Savings, Driving Greater ROI From Server Virtualization

LITTLETON, MA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - While many organizations have adopted server
virtualization, their return on investment has varied dramatically. Marathon Technologies is
explaining three straightforward steps best practice organizations are
taking to achieve aggressive cost savings with its live webcast, "How to Get at least
2x Greater Cost Savings from Server Virtualization."

Topic: How to Get at Least 2x Greater Cost Savings from Server
Virtualization

Date: Wednesday, August 19, at 8:30 am PDT, 11:30 am EDT, 3:30 pm GMT

Speakers: Brian Mullins, Sr. Director, Marketing, Marathon Technologies;
IT ROI Analysis Certification from Babson College and Nucleus
Research, and Steve Keilen, VP of Marketing, Marathon
Technologies

Sign up: Register online: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/722419688

Three Steps to Achieving Dramatically Higher Cost Savings from Server
Virtualization

There are at least three straightforward steps best practices companies are
implementing to achieve aggressive cost savings with their server
virtualization initiatives:

1 Expand Ratio of Virtual Machines to Physical Hosts -- One of the
simplest steps companies are taking to realize larger cost savings
from server virtualization is increasing the ratio of virtual
machines per physical host. The average ratio for companies who've
adopted server virtualization is five virtual machines per one
physical host. But the improved performance of the latest hypervisors
and Intel processors can easily support 2x greater virtual to
physical ratios.

2 Increase the Percentage of Applications Running in Virtual
Environments -- Another step best practice companies are using to
increase their virtualization cost savings is to increase the
percentage of their applications running in their virtual
environments. According to Goldman Sachs research on IT spending and
trends, 90% of respondents currently virtualize only 15 to 30%
of their applications. Best practice companies, including
one showcased in the webinar, are virtualizing 90% of their
applications.

3 Decrease Virtual Storage Costs by Avoiding Fibre Channel Storage Area
Networks -- Early virtualization platforms required shared or
networked storage to take advantage of the most compelling features
of server virtualization including live migration, high availability,
provisioning templates and other valuable features. However, newer
virtualization platforms and high availability solutions no longer
require expensive FC SANs.

These three steps will be covered in more detail, with customer use cases
in the August 19th webinar. Register here:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/722419688

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