Hardware
Taunton-based MooBella Inc., which makes technology to produce on-demand ice cream, has named Robert Beauregard as national sales director. Most recently, Beauregard served as key business development manager, Southeast region, for Van Houtte USA/Filterfresh, a provider of office coffee service. Prior to his stint at Van Houtte USA, Beauregard was the director of chain and national accounts, eastern U.S., for Oneida Global Foodservice Ltd. Earlier in his career, he was associated with Empire Beef & Redistribution Co., Benchmark Sales and Marketing and Dole & Bailey Inc.

Wireless
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. has hired Michael Murphy as vice president of engineering. Most recently Murphy served as vice president of engineering of TriQuint Semiconductor’s networks and standard products business unit. Prior to that he led TriQuint’s New England Design Center, which he initially launched for Infineon Technologies in 1999. TriQuint purchased the Infineon GaAs IC business unit in 2002. His early career included a 13-year tour with M/A-COM where in the late 1990s he served as product line manager.

Services
Everything Channel has promoted Robert C. DeMarzo from senior vice president and editorial director to senior vice president strategic content, brought back on board Kelley Damore as vice president, editorial director. In this newly created position, DeMarzo will help focus and shape the company’s event offerings as well as its custom content offerings. For more than 20 years, DeMarzo has helped solution providers and IT professionals analyze complex issues facing their businesses and drive technology sales. Damore was formerly the editor-in-chief of CRN Magazine from 1999 to 2002 and served in a number of roles at the publication for nine years including senior executive editor, executive editor, news editor and senior editor/hardware editor. Most recently, Damore was an editorial director at TechTarget Inc. Earlier in her career, Damore was senior writer at IDG’s InfoWorld and a staff writer for Ziff Davis’ PC Week.

Brian F. Connolly has joined Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. as a vice president on the leasing team. He will focus on representing midsize portfolio companies in the delivery of multiple services across markets. Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, Connolly was a vice president with Richards Barry Joyce & Partners where he specialized in domestic and international transaction management, complex financial modeling, deal structuring, consulting and portfolio management for clients. Connolly holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Bentley College.

Information Technology
Wakefield-based Edgewater Technology Inc. has appointed Timothy R. Oakes as its permanent chief financial officer. Oakes has been serving as the company’s interim CFO since September. Since joining Edgewater in 2004, Oakes has been responsible for the company’s overall financial operations and controls of the company, while directing the overall accounting, audit, tax functions and associated practices. He joined Edgewater as a director of finance, was promoted to vice president of finance in 2007 and chief accounting officer in 2008. Prior to joining Edgewater, Oakes was a senior director of finance within Symmetricom Inc.

Networks
Stratus Technologies Inc. has appointed Roy T. Sanford as chief marketing officer, a new position at the company. Prior to coming to Stratus, Sanford held a number of senior executive positions during his 14 years at EMC Corp., most recently as vice president coordinating the company’s entry into the software-as-as-service business. Prior to EMC he ran worldwide marketing and alliances with then startup ON Technology, and has held leadership roles at Bull HN and Data General.

LineSider Technologies Inc., a Danvers-based provider of network services virtualization, has appointed John Donnelly III as executive vice president of sales and marketing and will lead the newly expanded sales and technical team based in Boston, New York and London. Donnelly joins LineSider Technologies from MetaCarta, where he was executive vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to that, he was vice president of the Americas sales team for Interwise, an IP conferencing software company, which was acquired by AT&T.

Software
Marathon Technologies of Littleton has hired Rafael Costa as its new vice president of worldwide sales. Costa joined Marathon from CDC Software, where he served as CDC Global Services group general manager responsible for five business units. Prior to CDC Software, Costa worked as general manager of Vis.align, vice president of sales at Bang Networks and worldwide vice president of indirect and OEM channels at Inktomi. He was also instrumental in leading sales efforts at Hitachi Data Systems and IBM Corp.

Burlington’s Veracode Inc. has named James Cash, Jr., of Harvard University Business School to its board of directors. Cash is Emeritus James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University Business School, where he served from July 1976 to October 2003. He also served as chairman of the MBA program and the senior associate dean and chairman of HBS Publishing while at the Harvard. He serves as a director of The Chubb Corp., General Electric Co., Wal-Mart, Microsoft Corp. and is a limited partner in Banner 17, the entity that owns the Boston Celtics.

XOS Technologies Inc., a Billerica company making software for managing digital media assets for sports teams, has appointed Christopher R. McCleary as its new chief executive officer. Co-founder Randy Eccker has been promoted from CEO to the executive chairman of the company’s board of directors. McCleary has held several senior executive positions including partner at Blue Chip Venture Co., chairman of Radware Ltd., founder and CEO of Evergreen Assurance Inc. and USinternetworking Inc., CEO of Digex Inc., president of Radiation Systems Inc., vice president of American Mobile Satellite Corp., and vice president and CFO of United Cable Television Corp.’s Broadcast Division.

Medical Devices
Newport, R.I.-based Neograft Technologies Inc. has named Jon McGrath as president and chief operating officer. Between 2005 and 2008, McGrath was president and CEO at LumeRx, a venture-backed startup in Hingham, where he focused on phototherapy for ulcer causing H pylori bacteria. Previously, McGrath held various senior executive roles at Biosphere Medical in Rockland; Urologix in Minneapolis; and Schneider, based in Minnesota and Bulach, Switzerland, and now part of Boston Scientific Corp. McGrath co-founded Harbor Medical before that, and he began his career at Boston Scientific holding several positions including R&D director.

Internet
FreshAddress Inc. of Newton has named Elmer Bartek as strategic alliance manager and Sandy Pochapin as marketing manager. Bartek is responsible for developing strategic alliances across all industries as well as managing key partner relationships. He has worked for companies including Tealeaf Technologies, Salary.com, Computer Associates, and Harte-Hanks. Pochapin has worked with companies including Bose Corp. and Reed Exhibitions where she developed and managed programs for American Express, Toyota, Bass Pro Shops, Crutchfield and many other major retailers.

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High Availability has changed the way we now do business. But more than that it has changed the way users expect our business to run. This has made it more important than ever to keep our applications highly available.

In a recent paper I wrote titled “Making High Availability Pay for Itself” I wrote about how you can achieve these goals without emptying your pockets.

One of the products I looked at was from a company called Marathon Technologies. Marathon has been working in the areas of Disaster Recovery, Fault Tolerance and High Availability for a while now.

Their latest product everRun 2G, provides a flexible and cost effective way to implement high availability.
Some of the things I found that impressed me were a single solution for all your Windows platforms. There is no need to buy separate product versions for Windows 2003 or 2008, for 32 or 64bit platforms; everRun 2G will work across all of them.

This newest HA solution from Marathon not only provides a single platform solution for HA it also has a ton of great features like:
• The ability to use local storage, shared storage or a SAN
• Create single or multiple workloads

And most importantly everRun 2G offers automation…Automate the setup and configuration using setup wizards and a very functional browser interface. Automate fault detection and management of your HA solution with everRun’s embedded policy management. One of the best features I found was the ability to choose the level of protection for each application.

I have found that many HA solutions tend to be all or nothing and we are trying to fit our applications into our HA solution rather than our solution fitting our needs. This kind of customization was a real winner for me. I also liked the SplitSite feature which allows you to create a continuous availability in a different geographic location from your main data site.

everRun 2G is easy to setup, simple to manage and provides the kind of flexibility that really makes high availability pay for itself. Check out the webinar demo, schedule a live demo or download a trial at Marathon Technologies everRun 2G product site.

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan

Posted in Virtualization, 26th February 2010 08:02 GMT

Fault tolerant and high availability clustering software maker Marathon Technologies has received the second part of a $13.5m round of equity funding that the company lined up late last year.

According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Marathon has sold $13.5m in equity in total, but the company did not disclose who kicked in the money or how much came in during this round. The Boston Business Journal reports that $6.5m came in during this second traunche of funding from ten investors, with $7m coming in last August from unnamed investors.

Of its many investors, Atlas Venture, Sierra Ventures, and Longworth Venture Partners have kicked in dough to the company. Since it emerged from bankruptcy in 2003, Marathon has raised $27.8m and has completely revamped its product line.

Last September, after getting the first traunche of cash, Marathon tapped Jim Welch to be its chief executive officer. Welch was vice president of product operations at data integration software maker Ascential Software (which was spun out of database maker Informix) when IBM shelled out $1.1bn to acquire it in March 2005. (IBM had bought the database half of Informix back in 2001 for $1bn). Both bits of software have played key roles in the development of the InfoSphere data warehouse software business, which has grown to about $600m a year according to a statement put out by Marathon upon Welch’s appointment.

Marathon currently has more than 2,500 customers using its everRun clustering and fault tolerance software for physical and virtual servers. Marathon is based in Littleton, Massachusetts. It was formed in 1993 by a group of fault tolerant computing engineers from the former Digital Equipment Corp who worked on that company’s VAXft fault tolerant server line.

The company started out doing hardware-based fault tolerant clustering and then moved on to use more flexible software-based techniques, embodied in the everRun products, to accomplish the same levels of high availability that used to require hardware lockstepping.

What Marathon has not done, and perhaps should do, is expand beyond supporting the clustering of Windows with everRun 2G and fault tolerance with the everRun HA and FT products solely based on the XenServer hypervisor. Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX Server have larger market share on X64 servers. But there are two issues with going more broadly: Marathon has failover products that compete with those from Microsoft and VMware, and the hypervisors from Microsoft and VMware are closed source, which means Marathon needs their help to support them with its everRun suite.

In a separate announcement, Marathon has partnered with NEC Phillips Unified Solutions to integrate its everRun tools with the server-based communications systems created and sold by the NEC-Phillips partnership in Europe. NEC, you will remember, shuttered its PC business in Europe last February and said it would farm out production of its servers for EMEA. But it still sells servers and various turnkey products in Europe. ®

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