Hilversum (The Netherlands), Littleton (USA), February 11, 2010 – NEC Philips Unified Solutions (NEC Philips) and Marathon Technologies today announce a partnership, enabling channel partners and customers throughout EMEA to benefit from the combined offer of their virtualisation products and technologies, providing business continuity at the highest level.
With the further integration of enterprise communication applications into business processes, the number of business critical applications on servers spread across enterprise networks is increasingly significant. Organisations recognise that they need to ensure uptime and are turning to virtualisation to realise this.
“More and more businesses are turning to virtualisation as the answer to their IT challenges. It not only accelerates deployment of new capabilities without the need to acquire new hardware, but also simplifies disaster recovery. Additionally, virtualisation allows organisations to improve their infrastructure utilisation, thereby helping reduce costs. Finally, it increases the availability of business applications and improves the agility of IT infrastructures”, says Nick Turnbull, vice president for EMEA Sales at Marathon Technologies.
“With the solutions NEC Philips and Marathon provide, businesses are able to virtualise their infrastructure to provide fully fault tolerant systems. Regardless of the size or nature of an organisation, our solutions provide components to address end-to-end scenarios like data centre consolidation, business continuity and virtualised solutions realising lower total cost of ownership, zero downtime and enhanced security. We are therefore very pleased to add Marathon Technologies’ solutions to our portfolio of server virtualisation methods. With voice being an application where zero downtime is a mandatory requirement, Marathon’s fault tolerance in software adds to the high availability achieved by applying NEC’s fault tolerant hardware and blade server technology”, adds Marco Koenen, enterprise business manager at NEC Philips Unified Solutions.
Virtual High Availability Infrastructure
Implementing a reliable, rapid server recovery strategy can be time-consuming and expensive, requiring redundant server, storage and network infrastructure often in separate locations. Because of this, many companies simply don't have comprehensive business continuity plans to protect their critical infrastructure and applications.
With NEC’s virtual server solutions, organisations can add high availability and disaster recovery options to their enterprise communications solutions. Marathon’s everRun FT (fault tolerant) solution delivers system-level fault tolerance to protect mission-critical applications. With system-level fault tolerance, Windows Server applications run redundantly on both servers. Even when an entire server fails, continued availability is ensured, without loss of application or data.
The integration of Marathon’s everRun software and Citrix XenServer provide high availability and virtualisation without complexity. By providing fault tolerance for virtual servers and synchronised mirroring of network, storage and data, everRun prevents application downtime and data loss and delivers reliable protection for critical applications like NEC Philips’ SIP@Net server and Business ConneCT and MA4000 applications.
Support to channels across EMEA
The enhanced solutions available through the partnership between NEC Philips and Marathon are available to customers and channels across EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa). “We are very pleased with our cooperation with Marathon Technologies’ business partner for Benelux, Raxco Software, providing additional support to our channel partners across EMEA in the area of training and implementation of the offered solutions”, concludes Marco Koenen.