Last week, we announced our v-Available initiative and XenSource Partnership and the public response has been overwhelmingly positive. Throughout the week, we updated our last post with some of the coverage of the recent news. Below are some snippets from last week’s coverage that will provide you with a look at the future of Marathon Technologies:

• “Right now, the v-Available extensions to everRun are only available for Xen, but Phillips says that Marathon will support the Viridian hypervisor that Microsoft has put into Longhorn Server. Because XenSource and Microsoft are working on Xen-Viridian interoperability, this support should come relatively easily.” – Timothy Prickett Morgan at IT Jungle
• “This means applications hosted in an everRun environment do not see failures. Processing “fails through” to remaining resources when something fails. Marathon is supporting Windows-based applications today and will support Linux-based applications in the future.” – Dan Kusnetzky at ZDNet
• “By integrating with XenSource, Marathon will have access to a virtualization platform that can support both Windows and Linux operating systems such as Red Hat Linux and Novell’s SUSE Linux.” – Scott Ferguson at eWeek

We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to speak with us regarding the recent news and encourage you to read their full coverage. However, we’d also like to hear from those interested in utilizing virtualization within thier organization?

• Does the integration of everRun and XenEnterprise alleviate some of your concerns with adopting virtualization?
• What roadblocks are you currently facing within your organization regarding high availability and virtualization technology?

Feel free to leave a comment as we’d enjoy talking with you about the future of your organization.