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ICT Forum 2011 Singapore
24th February 2011,
Time : 9am to 5pm
Venue : Raffles Convention Centre
Padang/Collyer Room Level 4, Raffles City Convention Centre 80 Bras Basah Road Singapore 189560
Booth : Q

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Sharepoint Conference Australia
Date: 8th & 9th March 2011 Time: 8.30am to 6pm (Day1) 8.30am to 5pm (Day 2)
Venue : Hilton Sydney, Australia 488 George Street, Sydney, Australia 2000

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Global Security Asia 2011
Date: 15th to 17th March 2011,
Time : 10am to 5pm
Venue : Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 1 – Halls A & B, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Booth : 505

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It has been a few days since we released our next generation product PHD Virtual Backup 5.1 for VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer and the response from our users has been awesome. Our engineering group as well the entire staff has worked very hard on this release and we believe the new architecture sets a strong foundation for our goal of providing virtual backup solutions across hypervisors. This is the just the first release and we are working hard on the next feature release to continue to grow the product and its offerings.

I wanted to share some of the quotes we are getting from our user community in just the first few days of the release.

Firstly, I just tried 5.1 – Wow! – that is a hell of an update. Really easy to get setup – the previous versions were getting better, but they were never something that just ‘made sense’ like this does. Feels like something I could pass onto my boss and he’d understand it! Very nice, very clean.

So far I am loving 5.1! As always, your team and you have done a phenomenal job. Although I loved the previous versions, this product is very polished and will be far easier for a novice to install, understand, and use. The backup process is almost instantaneous compared to the old VBA startup process. And, for firing off a quick backup or restore, that is very nice to have

I just wanted to thank the PHD team for 5.1. The new interface is cleaner, faster, and easier to navigate. I found the install and configuration process to be a breeze. Backups and restores are so simple I could probably walk my kids through it over the phone.

Ok, I have 5.1 installed already and ran a few backups. WOW, I have to say that this thing is fast! I

I personally think it’s great and a huge improvement

Manageability is a whole lot easier, I don’t want to have to manage backups. This seems a step closer to set and forget.

Keep the feedback coming.

Pete

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Today is another landmark day for PHD Virtual as we release our Next Generation Product ( PHDVB 5.1 ) for both Vmware VSphere and Citrix XenServer. The new product leverages and builds the key architecture points that PHD Virtual has been a leader in, for example using Virtual Appliances for backups, doing source side deduplication and providing self healing backups. It takes that foundation and extends it to the next generation solution with a key focus on being on providing an end user experience that is easy to download, install, configure and maintain. Another key aspect of this release is the support for vSphere ESXi.PHD Virtual is the only provider that offers virtualized backup and recovery solutions purpose-built for Citrix and VMware environments. PHD Virtual Backup 5.1 delivers unique value including:A completely virtualized solution leveraging the PHD VBA™- Faster backup to meet your backup windows- Quick restore of full vm, virtual disk or individual files to meet your RPO and RTO- Optimizations for efficient backup over LAN and WAN environments- Dramatically lower backup storage requirements and overall solution costsPHD Virtual Press ReleaseEveryone at PHD Virtual is very excited about this release and we look forward to providing further enhancements and innovations to virtual backup solutions across hypervisors in the upcoming year.

Data Protection, Disaster Recovery Software, high availability, virtualization, Virtualization backup

Neverfail Wins ‘Infrastructure Innovation of the Year’ at the UK IT Industry AwardsREADING, UK – 15 November 2010 – Neverfail, a global software company specialising in affordable continuous availability and disaster recovery solutions, has been awarded the UK IT Industry Award for the Neverfail 6.2 Continuous Availability Suite in the category of ‘Infrastructure Innovation of the Year.’ Neverfail was lauded for its combination of class-leading replication technology which is integrated with application monitoring and automated failover to deliver continuous availability for business-critical applications, meaning that users are not disrupted when IT systems go down and the business is protected against lost productivity, revenue and data.Neverfail’s Continuous Availability Suite is architected to provide the maximum depth of protection from the widest set of downtime threats. By integrating local high availability and remote disaster recovery with Neverfail Tertiary™, Neverfail protects availability of mission-critical applications across any combination of physical, virtual and cloud-based servers, ensuring that neither localised failures such application issues nor site wide issues such as floods, hurricanes or power failures will bring the business down. Where organisations are looking to take advantage of private, public or hybrid Clouds, the unique combination of storage independent replication, advanced bandwidth reduction with Neverfail WANSmart™ technology and automated failover and seamless switch back means the economies of scale from cloud computing can be fully leveraged.Also key to Neverfail’s Continuous Availability Suite is the Continuous Availability Director, a centralised management console which enables a business-centric view of high availability and disaster recovery across systems, processes and business services that are dependent upon multiple applications. This means that IT applications can be grouped to reflect business function (e.g. E-commerce), technology functions (e.g. mobile email); geographical structure (e.g. New York, London) or any other desired view. Neverfail Continuous Availability Director sits on top of Neverfail’s Application Management Framework (AMF), which controls how continuous availability is optimised for different applications.Neverfail’s Continuous Availability Suite has achieved significant commercial success during the past year, and is being used by a wide range of companies, both large and small, in a variety of industries across the globe to ensure their businesses will remain up and running. For example, Fast Track, an internationally renowned sports marketing agency, has deployed Neverfail to ensure its business-critical processes and the applications which underpin them, including Microsoft® Exchange, RIM BlackBerry® Enterprise Server and Microsoft® SQL Server, are protected from failure, safeguarding the productivity of the business and saving significant monetary impact per hour of downtime should IT systems fail. According to Magnus Leask, IS Director, Fast Track, “With Neverfail we can rest assured that our most important applications will be protected whether they run in a physical or a virtual environment, taking the strain off IT and providing employees with the flexibility to work when and where they want.”“We are honoured that the Neverfail Continuous Availability Suite has been recognised for its innovative approach to protecting mission-critical applications from downtime,” said Andrew Barnes, SVP of Corporate Development at Neverfail. “Technology forms the backbone of businesses today, and any disruption to critical applications means an interruption to vital business processes, which is not acceptable in today’s 24/7 operating environment. Neverfail is committed to helping organisations of all sizes determine which core applications drive their business, as well as providing targeted solutions to ensure round-the-clock availability of those key applications, even in the event of an IT failure.”The BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards provide a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence. In total, the Awards feature 24 categories which cover: project,organisation, technology and individual excellence. The categories are open to organisations and individuals involved in IT across the public, not for profit and commercial sectors.“This has been another exceptional year for the Awards, with winners drawn from a wide range of industries, once again highlighting that IT is truly embedded in our society and brings tremendous benefits to all aspects of life from industry, healthcare through to entertainment and security,” said David Clarke, Chief Executive Officer of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. “As the Chartered Institute for IT, we offer our congratulations to all those who took part and in particular, the medallists and winners. To qualify as a finalist is terrific; to win is an absolutely fantastic achievement in these highly contested Awards.”“On behalf of Computing, I would like to congratulate the winners and medalists on their achievements,” said Robin Booth, Publishing Director of Computing. “The UK IT Industry Awards are rigorously judged and as a result truly celebrate innovation and best practice in IT today.”About NeverfailNeverfail is a leading global software company providing affordable data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions focused on keeping users productive. Neverfail’s software solutions enable users to remain continuously connected to the live software application irrespective of hardware, software, operating system, or network failures. Neverfail’s mission of eliminating application downtime for the end user delivers the assurance of business continuity, removes the commercial and IT management costs associated with system downtime, and enables the more productive use of IT resources. Neverfail, a US Managed Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a consistent and active early adopter participant and contributor in all mission-critical Microsoft application. It is also a member of the Microsoft SQL Server Always On Alliance. More information can be found at www.neverfailgroup.com.

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October 5, 2010 – Marathon Technologies released a software-only solution today that provides fault tolerance and high availability for symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) and multi-core CPU servers. Dubbed everRun MX, the software enables users to eliminate server, application and I/O downtime in Windows environments without purchasing specialized fault-tolerant hardware.

Based on Marathon’s ComputeThru technology, everRun MX is designed to reduce the need for system/VM restarts and data recovery/restore (although the company does recommend implementing standard backup and recovery procedures.) The software can be implemented with direct-attached storage (DAS), eliminating the need to deploy a SAN for high availability purposes (although everRun MX can also be used in conjunction with a SAN).

“A lot of people approach high availability from a storage perspective, and deploy a SAN for fault tolerance,” says Rob Ciampa, vice president of marketing at Marathon, “but a SAN is expensive and doesn’t provide full fault tolerance. everRun MX can eliminate the need for a SAN.”

everRun MX protects against all types of failure, including server (physical and virtual), software, I/O and storage. The software includes three key modules:

–A Component Management element interfaces with network and storage I/O on protected servers

–Availability Manager maintains synchronization between server, network and storage resources

– Workload Manager supports multiple workloads and VMs, as well as application consolidation

Storage-specific features of the software include safeguards to protect storage and data against corruption during mirror copies, and the ability to add disks with pre-existing data to a protected virtual machine (VM).

Pricing for everRun MX starts at $10,000. The software does not require application-level customization or scripting.

Market researcher IDC estimates that revenue loss per hour for midsize companies ranges from $60,000 to $1 million, and that end-user productivity loss adds another $4,000 to $22,000 per hour.

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Marathon Technologies, a provider of network availability solutions, has announced the release of everRun MX, which it characterizes as the industry’s first software-based fault tolerant solution for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and multi-core servers and applications. Marathon says that with everRun MX, any organization can turn standard servers into hardened, fault tolerant platforms that prevent application downtime and eliminate data loss, critical requirements for systems that must operate without interruption.

“Marathon’s everRun MX solves one of the most technically challenging problems in computing: scalable fault-tolerance across multi-core server architectures,” said Simon Crosby, chief technology officer, Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix, a Marathon business partner. “The implications for application availability are profound: every Windows-based application can be emancipated from downtime.”

Jim Welch, Marathon’s president and chief executive officer, says that this new platform is cost effective enough for even smaller users. He explains, “everRun MX is a major technological achievement that shatters the price/performance barrier that prevents organizations from truly being always on. We call this application availability – and we’re taking it mainstream. For years, too many organizations have settled for a complex patchwork of recovery-oriented solutions. everRun MX, offering complete application availability, blows that all away with a unified, prevention-based approach. We’re removing the complexity, risk, and economic constraints so no organization – large, small, local or remote – will have to settle for less.”

Key attributes of everRun MX include:

• World class application availability through downtime prevention instead of recovery. Full SMP/multi-core fault tolerant and redundant operation across servers eliminates risks associated with system/VM restarts and data recovery.

• No hardware lock-in. It runs on commodity servers, not specialized equipment. It immediately leverages hardware innovations while providing server selection freedom.

• Natively scales and works with all applications, regardless of computing demands. Requires no application level customization or complex scripting routinely found in conventional availability offerings.

• Fully automated and self-healing, everRun MX’s prevention response requires no operator intervention, ideal for environments where staffing or access is constrained.

“Marathon’s everRun software was the only solution that had exactly what I needed right out of the box, including fault tolerant support for multi-processors, easy snapshot capabilities, and the freedom to choose the hardware that best fit my applications and environment,” said Mike Rische, senior electrical project engineer, PPG Industries. “In addition, the automated failover and synching features are essential for my manufacturing environment, staffed mostly by non-IT employees, where manual failover solutions are not practical.”

www.marathontechnologies.com

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Marathon Technologies this week unveiled fault tolerant software for high availability of applications on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and multicore servers in Windows environments.

The latest version of Marathon’s everRun family, everRun MX, is targeted at small- to medium-sized IT operations as well healthcare, manufacturing and remote offices. everRun MX synchronizes between disk systems, and can work with storage area networks (SANs) or direct-attached storage (DAS). Marathon’s first generation everRun 2G was introduced about two years ago and it supported a single processor. This generation of everRun MX supports two, four or eight physical processors.

The everRun MX software is composed of three parts. The Component Manager allows the application to look at the hardware across all platforms as a single instance. It controls all the I/O operations to the disk, network and memory and helps maintain connections for data and transactional integrity. The Workload Manager supports multiple workloads so that applications can be stacked onto a single server pair, and the Availability Manager helps the traffic between the two servers stay in sync. “All of our key intellectual property is inside the Availability Manager,” Marathon CEO Jim Welch said. “It’s where all the hard work is done. This is where all the true fault tolerance occurs.”

Marathon vice president of marketing Rob Ciampa said everRun MX is more about preventing downtime than enablingapplication recovery.

“It’s much better never to go down than to deal with the implications of an outage,” he said.

Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC, described this launch as a reboot of the company. Marathon secured $13.5 million in venture funding over the past year, and she said most of the vendor’s employees have joined in that period.

“This is getting back on track with new staff and new direction,” DiDio said. “They have expanded their focus. They are heading more into applications, virtualization and fault tolerance.”

She said the most interesting thing about everRun MX is that is that it enables software-based fault tolerant without requiring a specialized hardware solution. “In the past, if you wanted fault tolerance, you needed specialized fault tolerance hardware,” DiDio said. “Most people couldn’t afford it.”

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