As VMworld fast approaches, Marathon Technologies would like you to remember to stop by their booth to check out what they call an "industry first".  The company is going to be demonstrating a true fault tolerant lockstepping for virtual environments with everRun software. 

Marathon says this milestone in technology enables the first true convergence of virtualization and availability in one complete integrated software solution and introduces the following:

• First and only lockstep solution for virtual machines
• Completely automated fault tolerance for virtual machines

So what are the benefits of everRun lockstepping?  The company describes them like so:

• Enables mission-critical applications to be virtualized/consolidated
• Completely automated setup, configuration, fault detection and management
• Application agnostic

You can check it out at their Blog site, here.  Be sure to stop by the New Innovators Section at VMworld to find out more.