When faced with the task of assessing the risks and impact of downtime, many companies either don’t know where to start or simply decide to live with the unknown and hope that nothing bad happens.  Yet it’s important to ask if clients know how much even 5 minutes downtime affects their company’s bottom line. (more…)

Having recently read the Software Advice article “A Plain English Guide To Modern Manufacturing Methods” on Internationalechem’s blog,  there is something else to consider when looking to improve overall equipment efficiencies (OEE).  (more…)

We’ve been working with UK manufacturing companies of late – protecting their production line environments with Marathon everRun.  So we have added a new page to our web site that specifically deals with their issues – please take a look at high availability for manufacturing to find out more.

Every business welcomes a new sale - but it’s so frustrating when the opportunity is lost because your internal systems don’t work, despite your sales people doing everything they can to close the deal.  And from the consumer point of view, it can be equally frustrating …… (more…)

We’re including here a recent product review of Marathon everRun high availability software by LAN Magazine – the article is written by a well-known independent Dutch IT reviewer who doesn’t always give favourable reviews….. (more…)

everRun 2G provides fault tolerant high availability for physical or virtual environments.   Our partners, Marathon Technologies, (developers of the everRun group of products) have produced a full one hour demonstration showing how to protect critical applications using a software based solution loaded on non proprietary hardware. (more…)

A new white paper published by Stephen Wydkoop, Microsoft SQL server MVP, highlights the overall benefits of virtualising a SQL environment as well as the potential pitfalls of doing so. (more…)

White Papers and Deployment Blue Print Explain How to Protect All Aspects of XenApp Environment with Fewer Resources and at Lower Cost. (more…)

We’ve added some Marathon everRun videos and webinars to our site so you can see the Marathon technical team explaining how the high availability software works.  Click here to take a look.

..  no it’s not actually a joke – more to the point what do these household names – plus others such as Singapore Government, several NHS trusts, the MOD, Dungannon Meats and Hovis  all have in common? (more…)