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V-Available, An initiative designed to bring fault tolerant class availability to virtual environments. Marathon just make the news announcement of V-Available Initiative launches today. They claim that the purpose of V-Available initiative is aiming to provides companies with best reliable protection for critical virtual workloads and continuously up and running in their virtual environment. Meanwhile, Marathon help its partners better understand and deploy Highly Availability and Fault Tolerant solutions.

This announcement of V-Available seem like a great virtualization solutions for server consolidation and improved data center efficiency since it can deliver a solutions that can address both planned and unplanned downtime in virtual environments.

“Although consolidation and legacy migration have been the primary motives for server virtualization, going forward we see high availability and disaster recovery for business resiliency as key reasons why organizations will deploy virtualization software,” said John Humphreys, Program Director of IDC’s Enterprise Virtualization program.

To improve V-Available, Marathon has bring in their flagship product Marathon’s everRun™ fault tolerant technology to intergrate with XenSoource, The leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen™ hypervisor. The partnership among both parties to establish to create a more powerful and efficient virtual environment solution with fault tolerant availability with lower cost, ease of use, higher availability and protecting virtual workloads.

Marathon has grown its customer base to include more than 1,200 companies. The company has also signed more than 125 reseller and other strategic partners that are key to expanding the company’s reach in growing markets throughout the world.

The existence of V-Available Initiative has prevent greater proliferation of server virtualization, especially to critical data operation. As IT administrator point of view, V-Available has benefit to end user to ensure the server operation services availability. Meanwhile, cutting down IT budget and consolidate server on virtual environment with simply and complete confidence.