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IBM Japan, Sumisho Electronics Offer Non-Stop Server Solutions

Marathon Technologies Corp, a developer and supplier of fault and disaster-tolerant business continuity solutions for industry standard Microsoft Windows environments, announced that its Marathon FTvirtual Server software is being used in a new Non-stop Server product line offered by IBM Japan and Sumisho Electronics Co Ltd (SSE). The products are sold by SSE who combines the Marathon software with IBM eServer Blade Center or IBM eServer xSeries server hardware to create highly affordable servers with "mainframe class" availability. In addition to providing the server hardware, IBM Japan also sells evaluation services for these solutions at their eServer Competency Center in Harumi Koutou-ku, Japan.

The new product line features three Windows 2003-compatible server models: the FTV-4U, using IBM xSeries 206 dual processor servers; the Blade FTV, using dual-processor HS20 BladeCenter blades; and the LE FTV-8U, using xSeries 206 single processor servers with Hyper-Threading technology.

Marathon software combines two industry-standard servers into a single, fully redundant configuration. Servers protected with Marathon software continue to operate continuously through hardware failures and disasters without failover or loss of application state.

"We are pleased that Marathon FTvirtual Server software will be part of this new product line," said George C. Tranos, president and CEO of Marathon Technologies. "As the trend toward utility computing continues to grow, so does the demand for highly available, entry level and blade servers. Marathon software was designed specifically to meet this demand."