Marathon Technologies Corporation

In the fall of 2012 the Stratus Technologies company purchased the Marathon Technologies private firm specializing in development of software products of high readiness. Thus Stratus expands the portfolio of offers in the market of the systems of high readiness and the failsafe systems.

"Developments of Marathon will organically add our products. Having integrated both portfolios, we will be able to offer a full range of the systems of high readiness — David Laurello, the chairman of the board of directors and the CEO of Stratus noted. — Besides, purchase gives us new distribution channels. We receive more developed ecosystem of distribution and the various customer base".

Marathon Technologies proposes the software solutions ensuring failsafe operation of applications. The main product of the company, Marathon EverRun MX, guarantees continuous operation of applications for Windows on the computers equipped with multi-core processors and on multiple processor systems.

Acquisition allows Stratus to expand even more a portfolio of the systems of high readiness (High Availability, HA) and the failsafe (fault-tolerant) systems. The first play a key role in ensuring operability of the server systems even at failure of one of servers. Such services are necessary for the crucial transactions providing business continuity and recovery after failures. Stratus, the provider of such services, offers them under the name ftServer now. Also the company developed tools of high readiness Avance for small and medium business working at computer systems of standard architecture.

Acquisition of Marathon will give to the company the chance to offer more perfect systems of ensuring fault tolerance in a packet with EverRun MX. Unlike Avance, the EverRun system provides the valid fault tolerance, i.e. executes switching to the backup copy of the program without data loss at such transfer. This system has also additional support functions of business continuity, recovery after failures and preparation of reports which are not in Avance.

Commenting on a class of the offered systems, Laurello told that EverRun "a little more developed system, than Avance, and is a little lower than the level, than ftServer".

Over time Stratus is going to integrate the best Avance and everRun MX functions in a new packet, the name to which it is not offered yet. The purchased technologies will allow also Stratus to prepare packets for support of the systems of high readiness and crucial applications in the environment of a private cloud and other virtualized environments.

Stratus will get additional benefits thanks to parnersky network and the customer base of Marathon. Among partners of the last, in particular, Microsoft and Citrix Systems. The Marathon company quite successfully tried the forces on such vertical segments of the market of services as protection, logistics of freight air transportation, house and corporate security systems and industrial automation. "Portfolios of our offers are crossed slightly" — Laurello emphasized, having noted that Stratus has quite strong positions in the financial sector, in the sector of ensuring public security and industrial automation.

Jobs in Stratus will be offered the staff of Marathon working in the USA, Great Britain and Japan.