Kepware and Marathon Technologies Partner to Deliver High Availability Communications for Manufacturing Automation
RELEASE: Portland, ME April 2, 2008 Portland, ME – Kepware Technologies, the leader in Communications for Automation, and Marathon Technologies
announced today that they have formed an Alliance Partnership for the purpose of validating Kepware's KEPServerEX on
Marathon Technologies everRun HA and everRun FT software.
The latest generation of Kepware's technology, KEPServerEX was designed to allow users to quickly set up
communications from equipment to control systems via a wide range of available "plug-in" device drivers and
components. KEPServerEX delivers over 130 protocols and connectivity to thousands of devices, and has set the
standard in the support of OPC Technology for Data Access. KEPServerEX has been tested with Marathon Technologies
High Availability software platforms and will continue to be supported on those platforms on a go forward basis.
"Marathon Technologies is one of the leading suppliers of high availability computing environments," said Tony
Paine, Executive VP and CTO for Kepware Technologies. "We have many customers today, using our products on Marathon
Technologies platforms, and we want to make sure our joint customers can rely on both of our companies working
together to maintain a relationship, and deliver a high quality solution with the highest reliability."
"Kepware is the leading communications company in the automation space," said Joost Verhofstad, Business Development
Manager for Marathon Technologies. "Most of our partners either resell or recommend Kepware's products as part of
their solutions. Our partnership will ensure Kepware stays abreast of our latest developments, and that our joint
customers and partners will have access to the best possible communications solutions."
According to Craig Resnick, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group, "Manufacturers who deploy automated,
fault-tolerant availability and disaster recovery software solutions require the same level of integrity of their
communication solutions. That is why it is critical that Marathon offer a communication solution that has been
validated to perform with their everRun HA and everRun FT products to ensure manufacturers continuity of operations.
Marathon's validation of the Kepware's KEPServerEX solution should provide manufacturers with a high level of
confidence of the integrity of their communication solutions."
ABOUT KEPWARE: Kepware is the world leader in
communication software for automation and offers unique experience
in both OPC and embedded
device communications. Since 1995, Kepware has focused on
the development of communication drivers to automation controllers,
I/O and field devices. Today, with over 100 communication protocols,
and through the efforts of our direct sales, distribution and
embedded partners, Kepware is the leading provider of communications
with annual shipments exceeding 100,000 units. Kepware's responsiveness
to customer needs and strong partnerships with other leading
automation suppliers ensure that your next application will be
a success. Ask around and you'll hear why automation professionals
everywhere consider Kepware Technologies; "Automation's Best
Friend";. (http://www.kepware.com)
ABOUT MARATHON TECHNOLOGIES: With over 1800 global customers, Marathon is the world's first and only provider of fault-tolerant, automated, high
availability and disaster recovery software for physical and virtual servers. Marathon's everRun® software prevents
outages and data loss – without IT intervention. Organizations using everRun achieve uninterrupted availability,
100% data protection, and rapid recovery – all through "one-click" operation. The company won a "Best of VMworld
2007 – New Technology" award for bringing fault tolerant availability to virtual servers. CIO.com recently named
Marathon Technologies one of "10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2008." For more information visit
www.marathontechnologies.com.
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names of their respective companies.
Kepware Media Contacts:
Roy Kok
V.P. Sales and Marketing
Kepware
207-775-1660 x253 roy.kok@kepware.com
