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For our second 93Startup Profile, we go from a 1 person, self-funded startup to an 80 person well-funded startup out of Littleton. Marathon Technologies is also one of the finalists in this years MITX awards and the first to break the “keep it to just a few sentences” rule.

What do you think of Marathon? Let Boston Know.

Marathon Technologies
Location: Littleton, MA
Funding: VC-Backed
# of Employees: 80
URL: www.marathontechnologies.com
Blog: www.marathontechnologies.net
Submitted By: Brian Mullins

What’s your elevator pitch?

Why Respond to Failure? PREVENT IT.

What if you were able to prevent business interruption instead of merely
planning for the recovery when a failure (inevitably) occurs?

Marathon Technologies prevents outages and data loss in physical and
virtual infrastructures - without requiring an army of IT people or
specialized IT skills. More than 1800 companies around the globe use
everRun(r) software to achieve uninterrupted availability, 100% data
protection and rapid recovery - all with “one-click” operation.

Who is your target market?

Mid-market customers with very limited IT resources and enterprise
customers who need to improve the resiliency of their IT systems.

What makes you different or stand out?

Five “First and Only’s”

1. FIRST AND ONLY FAULT-TOLERANT, HIGH AVAILABILITY SOFTWARE FOR
PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SERVERS everRun VM provides Compute-Thru(r)
protection without the use of specialized hardware. The fault-tolerant
redundancy of everRun VM ensures no outages and zero data loss.
Companies can reliably run production applications in virtual machines -
gain virtualization benefits across much broader range of applications.

2. FIRST AND ONLY FULLY AUTOMATED HA SOLUTION FOR PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SERVERS everRun VM has completely automated setup, configuration, fault
detection and policy management. Fully deployable in 30 minutes or less.
Removes traditional availability burden for IT. Brings automated HA and
DR to mid-market and F500 remote facilities.

3. FIRST AND ONLY AVAILABILITY SOFTWARE THAT ALLOWS AVAILABILITY TO BE
SELECTED BY VM Users have the ability to dial-in different availability
levels - from true high availability and fault tolerance to disaster
recovery and remote availability - based on specific application
requirements. Companies only pay for the protection needed - get the
best price/performance.

4. FIRST AND ONLY GEOGRAPHIC FAULT-TOLERANCE SOFTWARE FOR PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SERVERS - everRun VM goes beyond local server-level protection
by enabling fault tolerance between geographically disperse locations to
maintain system availability even through more serious environmental and
regional outages. Production applications running in VMs available even
when entire data center is down. Compliance & production requirements
met even if disaster.

5. FIRST AND ONLY AVAILABILITY SOFTWARE DESIGNED AND PRICED FOR BROAD
ADOPTION everRun VM is the first software that combines the
availability benefits of server virtualization with simple automated
availability software. Companies can afford to protect applications they
aren’t protecting today.

Who are the founders?

Marathon Technologies was founded by senior executives and engineers
responsible for developing Digital’s VAX FT fault-tolerant systems. The
team used this experience to create the first software and networking
technology that allowed multiple Windows/Intel servers to operate as a
single fault-tolerant system.

What is your startup story?
(Where did the idea come from, inspiration, funny anecdote, etc., etc.)

Marathon’s original name, Marathon Computer Company, was chosen because
of the association of running with incredible endurance and resiliency -
two core components of the company’s high availability technology. Also
as a New England-based company with strong ties to the region, it was
fitting to be associated with The Boston Marathon, the world’s
longest-running marathon.

Marathon didn’t want to be seen as just another computer company, but as
a company with an enabling technology that protected businesses from
downtime, so they quickly changed the name to Marathon Technologies -
still highlighting their ability to keep customers’ systems and
applications up and running.

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