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Stock News Bot Date: March 13, 2007 05:30:00 AM
SI News Siemens Building Technologies Group and Marathon Technologies Form Collaboration Agreement
LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Marathon Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of high availability software for Microsoft®Windows® environments, announced today that it has partnered with Siemens Building Technologies, a subsidiary of Siemens AG (NYSE:SI).
Siemens Building Technologies (SBT) is an international leader in the security, safety and building automation sectors. With a comprehensive range of products, systems, solutions and services, SBT provides all the technical infrastructure required to achieve optimal security, comfort and efficiency in buildings of any size. The partnership with Marathon is with regard to the Siemens integrated access control system SiPass.
It’s critically important from a business continuity perspective that an access control system is up and running at all times and is highly redundant. Marathon’s solution is a proven and cost-effective approach to providing high-availability for access control systems.
Marathon’s everRun line of high availability products protects Microsoft Windows applications from leading sources of downtime while eliminating the need for costly and complex failover processes, specialized applications, or proprietary server hardware. Turnkey, automated, and simplicity are the cornerstones of the everRun line, which uses embedded intelligent policy management to resolve faults and failures. The primary benefit to the end user is that applications continue to ComputeThru® platform faults and failures, without needing to modify or script the application.
“We are pleased to be working with Siemens, a market leader who has built an outstanding reputation by delivering the highest quality products and services,” says Kristen Robinson, Vice President of Sales at Marathon Technologies. “Combining Marathon’s everRun technology with Siemens’ SiPass integrated access control system provides customers with top-of-the-line security systems that are continuously available.”
About Marathon Technologies
Marathon Technologies Corporation defines what’s next after clusters -- Infinite Availability™. Moving beyond traditional high availability, Marathon sets a new standard for application availability using its patented virtualization technology that embraces off-the-shelf servers, Windows and business process applications. Marathon’s everRun™ product family delivers a completely automatic path to application availability, liberating busy IT professionals from unnecessary complexity. Marathon is a privately held, venture-backed corporation based in Littleton, Massachusetts, USA, with offices worldwide. For more information please visit www.marathontechnologies.com or call 978-489-1100 or 888-682-1142.
About Siemens Building Technologies
Building Technologies, an operating group of Siemens, combines offerings for security and life safety and building automation within one company as a service provider and systems integrator and as a manufacturer of respective products. By virtue of the unique combination of these business sectors, the company occupies a leading position worldwide. The Siemens group is part of Siemens Switzerland Ltd, Zurich (Switzerland) and consists further of Siemens Building Technologies GmbH & Co oHG, Erlangen (Germany), Siemens Building Technologies Inc., Buffalo Grove, IL (USA), their subsidiaries and affiliates and all significant Siemens activities in the field of building technologies. The company totaled sales of 4.8 billion euros in the 2006 fiscal year (September 30) and currently employs a workforce of 28,000 in 51 countries.
