SpatialNews Press Release
Brookline Police Choose Marathon to Deliver 24/7 Uptime for Critical Public Safety Applications
www.marathontechnologies.com
BOXBOROUGH, Mass.--Jan. 7, 2002--Marathon Technologies Corporation, the developer and supplier of Marathon Assured Availability(TM) solutions for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) operating systems, today announced that the Brookline Police Department in Massachusetts has selected Marathon Endurance(R) to protect critical public safety applications from hardware failure, software faults, and disasters.
To ensure the safety of the towns 57,000 residents, the police department requires continuous, 24/7 access to several mission- critical public safety applications, including an arrest booking program, records management system (RMS), detective case management, and GIS mapping. In addition, the department relies on its computer- assisted dispatch (CAD) and Enhanced 911 Interface-to-CAD applications to coordinate all dispatch for police, fire, and emergency medical services. The police department chose Marathon Endurance, running on standard Intel-based Dell servers, to guarantee that these applications are available and operational at all times.
"Any type of downtime would disrupt communications and deprive our officers of the critical information that aids them in their duties," stated Officer Scott Wilder, director of technology for the Brookline Police Department. "We found that only Marathon could supply us with every feature we needed, especially zero downtime."
"With Marathon Endurance, the citizens of Brookline can rest assured that their police, fire, and EMS teams have continuous access to the applications they need to respond to emergencies," said Linda Mentzer, vice president of marketing, Marathon Technologies Corporation. "We provide a cost-effective fault- and disaster-tolerant solution for organizations who require full protection of critical-applications and data."
Prior to using Marathon Endurance, the Brookline Police Department used a secondary server as backup when their main server was down. They had to manually start up and switch over to the backup server. "I estimated that depending on the time-of-day and day-of-week of the main server failure, we would need between 5 and 10 hours to be fully operational on the back up server," said Wilder. During the downtime, they would revert to a less efficient manual dispatch system and lose access to the arrest booking program, records management system (RMS), and detective case management records.
About Endurance
Marathon Endurance products protect businesses from the costs and consequences of business-critical server downtime. With the Load 'n Go(TM) feature, customers simply use shrink-wrapped application software and off-the-shelf Windows server operating systems, eliminating additional costly programming expenses. Using leading server brands, Marathon's patented ComputeThru(R) technology continues computing through all component failures and hot swaps. The No Touch Recovery(R) feature automatically assimilates new components into the array, restoring full redundancy, without operator intervention. The entire process takes place transparently to users. Marathon's SplitSite(R) technology delivers site disaster tolerance by permitting geographic separation of the two redundant halves of a system up to 10 kilometers.
Marathon Technologies Corporation delivers Assured Availability solutions for business-critical applications and databases. Enterprises worldwide in manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, public safety, and other industries entrust their IT infrastructure and high value applications and networks to Marathon products. Marathon is a privately held corporation based in Boxborough, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in California, Illinois, Seattle, and Texas. International offices are located in Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. For information, please call + 1 978 266 9999 or visit online at www.marathontechnologies.com.
The Marathon logo, Endurance, SplitSite, No Touch Recovery, and ComputeThru are registered trademarks, and Marathon Assured Availability, and Load 'n Go are trademarks of Marathon Technologies Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
(c)2002 Marathon Technologies Corporation.
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