Every year Windows IT Pro magazine talks with hundreds of vendors, attends dozens of product demos and reviews some of the best products out in the Windows market. All the products the Windows IT Pro staff has identified can help IT professionals do their jobs faster and more efficiently. This year we are pleased to announce that everRun VM has been chosen as a bronze winner in the virtualization category. Here’s what our CEO Gary Philips had to say:

“Given all of the innovative virtualization companies considered for this award, we are honored to be named a Windows IT Pro Editors’ Best Award winner in the virtualization category. This award is the tenth industry award we have received in the past year, a testament to the importance and value of what we are doing to help companies reduce costs and ensure the availability of their applications.”

Other winners in our category include Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (gold winner) and VMware ThinApp (silver winner).

At the beginning of July I posted asking our readers to vote for us for Fast Company Magazine’s Fast 50 Reader Favorites. Apparently quite a few people listened because we placed #1 on the list! Being nominated was honorable enough, nevermind topping the chart.

The companies nominated are all major innovators of business technology including: BlogHer, Mozilla, our partner Citrix, FedEx, etc.; so you can imagine the look on our faces when we saw where we placed on the list.

We’ve worked hard to achieve this recognition and are glad that our services aren’t going unrecognized by the community. Thanks to everyone that voted and to the team here at Marathon for making this possible.

Now we’re going to Disney World!!! (just kidding…VMworld’s more like it)

Every year Fast Company magazine “highlights the most innovative companies worldwide that take business to new creative heights.” This year we are pleased to announce that Marathon is a nominee for the Fast 50 Reader Favorites. We are asking our readers to please take a moment and vote for us as an organization that is driving and demonstrating business innovation.

The voting is open until July 15th so be sure to cast your votes!

The folks at eWEEK have been giving Marathon a lot of love lately. On Monday they announced the winners of the eWEEK Excellence Awards and named us the winner in the infrastructure software category for everRun VM and had this to say:

“If infrastructure is the heart of the network, then infrastructure software is the brains. Marathon software helps to make these brains that much smarter with everRun VM, a product with the potential to solve many of the problems found in today’s complex networks. everRun VM combines server virtualization with high availability, leveraging Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition. With everRun VM, enterprises now have a fault-tolerant virtual-server solution that can provide continuous access to network services and reduce operating costs, yet is designed to be easy to implement and manage.”

In addition, the voting for eWEEK’s Best in Show wrapped up yesterday, and we weren’t the top winner, however we were in the running for second place as of late last night. Winner or not, it’s an honor to be recognized among so many top level companies that all produce products that can be considered as having the greatest impact on business moving forward.

Congrats to all nominees and winners!

For those of you that might have missed it, Computerworld presented medals Monday to this year’s Laureates for the 2008 Honors Program. We are pleased to say that Marathon was among the recipients for everRun VM (see the award submission here). This is a tremendous honor for us as we recognize that Marathon is amongst several of the major players in the industry who are all innovators in information technology.

Thanks to everyone that made this possible!

David Laubner, author of the 93South blog, who recently covered the nominees for the 2008 MITX Technology Awards , is profiling some of the finalists and just posted a profile on Marathon. While you’re there, check out his post, Is Boston the PC and San Fran the Mac?

This week the folks at SearchServerVirtualization.com announced the winners of their first annual Products of the Year awards. The contest spanned four categories: virtualization platforms, hardware for virtualization, systems management and data protection.

We wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate our counterpart Citrix for taking home the Gold in the virtualization platform category for Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 4.0. Way to go guys! Give em’ hell in 08’!

The results are finally in and we are pleased to announce that Marathon has been chosen as the winner of the “Best of VMworld Award” in the New Technology Category. Tech Target’s SearchServerVirtualization.com selected from more than 100 exhibitors offering new products and innovations.

Below is the complete list of winners:

Category: New Technology
Winner: Onaro Inc. – VM Insight
Winner: Marathon Technologies Corp. – everRun FT for XenEnterprise
Winner: InovaWave Inc. – InovaWave VirtualOctane for ESX Server

Category: Capacity planning, consolidation software
Gold: CiRBA Inc. – CiRBA Data Center Intelligence 4.4
Finalist: 3Leaf Systems – V-8000 Virtual I/O Server

Category: Performance Monitoring and Optimization
Gold: Akorri – Akorri BalancePoint 1.7
Finalist: B-hive – B-hive Conductor
Finalist: Netuitive Inc. – Netuitive SI for VMware

Category: Migration Tools
Gold: PlateSpin Ltd. – PlateSpin PowerConvert 6.6
Finalist: Leostream Corp. – Leostream P>V 4.0

Category: Data Protection and Security
Gold: Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) – NetBackup 6.5
Finalist: Blue Lane Technologies Inc. – VirtualShield
Finalist: LeftHand Networks – Virtual SAN Appliance

Category: Utilities
Gold: Veeam Software – Veeam Reporter 2.0 VMware
Finalist: ThinPrint GmbH – .print Virtual Desktop Engine

Category: Desktop virtualization software
Gold: ClearCube Technology Inc. – Sentral 5.6
Finalist: VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) – VMware Workstation
Finalist: VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) – VMware ACE 2

Category: Green Computing
Winner: 3PAR Inc. – 3PAR Utility Storage
Winner: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) – AMD’s quad-core processor technology

Category: Best of Show
Winner: IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) – IBM System x 3950 M2 with VMware ESX Server 3i

If you aren’t already aware, we have been nominated for the Best of VMworld Awards under the Data Protection category. We are up against some tough competition so being talked about amongst the best is an honor in itself. The winners will be announced at VMworld on Wednesday, September 12, at 1:00 PM in Moscone Center’s Room 232 for those attending the event.

Good luck to all nominees – we are surely keeping our fingers crossed!

We’re humbled by the nomination of everRun HA for the 2007 ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards in the Virtualization Tool category. Winners of the Excellence Award are determined by public vote, so we encourage you to visit ServerWatch here and vote! No matter who you vote for (everRun) we believe that venues like this that allow end users to vote for excellence in product development (everRun) results in the development of products customers truly need and appreciate. So feel free to stop by and vote for your favorite (everRun) in the 2007 ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards. It’s an honor just to be nominated.