Customer Endorsements of everRun's High Availability Data Recovery Solutions

“It just works.”  That’s what we hear from everRun® high availability solutions customers and partners all the time. Here is just a sampling of other comments from some of our more enthusiastic everRun users.

Manufacturing

“Since implementing everRun over two years ago, we’ve had 100% server uptime and no data loss on the systems we are running Marathon’s solution. Marathon’s software was everything we thought it was – and more. It’s been a great partnership. When we’ve needed it, we’ve always got great support from Marathon.”

- Craig Moore, Senior Manager of Facilities at Abercrombie & Fitch

“The cost savings resulting from this efficient use of staff resources paid for the Marathon software in a short time frame.” 

- John Joyner, Senior Manager, City of Santa Rosa

“We are very pleased with our Marathon everRun servers. We have the level of redundancy and reliability we require in a simple-to-use Windows-based solution.”

- Brian Mudra, Project Manager, Rich Projects

“We recently had a network card failure on the production server. Under normal circumstances this would have resulted in system downtime, but with the Marathon solution it was business as usual!”

- Brian Murphy, IT Technical Manager, Dungannon Meats

“Given that we have customers all over the world, we must make sure the system continues to run 24 hours a day. The everRun software has dispelled all these concerns."

- Michio Kubota, Logistics Planning Department Manager, Hankyu Express International

“The Marathon solution for the Johnson Controls P2000, offers us the extremely high level of availability we need for our critical access control system at the airport.”

- Rob Benstein, Public Safety and Operations Director, Gerald R. Ford International Airport

“The Marathon solution for Rockwell RSMACC, offers us the high level of availability we need for our critical asset management system at the oil sands operations. The Marathon system has worked extremely well for us and has been very easy to manage.”

- Steven Korum, Control Systems Specialist, Alibian Sands Operations

“A disruption to the provision of data and applications would affect every employee, and in the worst case scenario, halt operations altogether. But with everRun, we no longer have to worry about downtime. Should we need to protect more of our mission-critical data and applications against downtime, we will definitely go with everRun.”

- Asmir Hrustanbegovic, IT specialist, MAN AG, Vehicle Manufacturing

Financial Services

“Marathon software keeps the hedge fund’s Exchange servers up and available 24x7, 365 days a year.”

- IT Director, Multi-Billion Dollar Hedge Fund

“Marathon software helps ensure pricing board information and order confirmation messages are always available.”

- IT Administrator, World’s Largest Commodities Futures Exchange

Media & Broadcasting

“We are highly impressed that none of our programs and data were affected by the move and we can now rely on server availability up to 99.999% of the time.”

- Clayton Doige, IT project manager, Central European Media Enterprises (CME)

“Marathon software was put through stringent testing. It passed its tests with flying colors and has exceeded the company’s requirements for uptime and availability.”

- Leading Sports News Network and Media Company

Healthcare

“The Marathon solution for SiPass, offers us the extremely high level of availability we need for our critical control system at 24*7 facilities, where interruptions in the access control security system cannot be tolerated.”

- Royce Cox, Senior Project Manager, Siemens Building Technologies

“We chose Marathon’s everRun software because of its unique ability to protect at the application level, ensuring no interruption of service. It was a perfect fit for our environment.”

- Gary Dupont, Director of Telecommunications, Masco Services

“With the key elements for this medical institution being space, installation cost, and high reliability, we think that fault tolerant servers will be an institution standard.”

- Junichi Sawabiraki, General Physical Examination Department- Head of Health Promotion & Health Management, Ohta General Hospital

“It is unthinkable what we would be up against without this system in place. We transferred all the users on to the system over a weekend period; in the space of a week, the system proved its worth.”

- Philip Leighton, Senior Systems Specialist, Belfast City Hospital

“Previously, our old exchange servers had to be rebooted frequently; [since installing everRun] we haven’t had to reboot the new once in the last year. Ideally, this is the level of reliability we want on all our systems so we’re looking to Marathon’s everRun products to help us attain this.”

- Doug Constance, Team Leader Windows Development, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

"We have been using everRun, Marathon's high availability solution for physical server environments since 2006, and haven't suffered any downtime at all during this time. Choosing a Marathon technology for our virtual server environments was therefore an easy choice."

- Alexander Witkowski, Systems Administrator and Administrator IIT for co.don AG

Gaming

“With potentially thousands of games connected to the system; downtime at the database level could have a significant financial impact.”

- Adam Goldstein, Director of Information Technology, Aristocrat

“The benefits of using Marathon go beyond the obvious improved availability. When a problem occurs, the property does not have to wait for a specialist to arrive. In addition, the IT staff don't have to come in during off hours on an emergency call. That's good for morale.”

- Steven Bastille, IT Director - Server and Desktop Systems, Station Casinos

Other

“We experienced a hardware failure about two weeks after installing everRun where the entire server went down, but we never knew it occurred because of Marathon’s everRun VM technology.”

- Erika Simpson, Network Administrator, The Sullivan Group

 

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