IM Ingram Micro Inc. (delisted)

Marathon Technologies, the only provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with the exclusive Citrix XenServer distributor in North America, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM). Under terms of the agreement, Ingram Micro will offer Marathon's everRun� high availability and disaster recovery software to its resellers in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Included in the distribution agreement is Marathon's everRun VM, the world's first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization that is integrated with Citrix XenServer. Citrix XenServer is a dynamic virtualization software platform that virtualizes application workloads across any number of servers in the datacenter as a flexible aggregated pool of computing resources. The combination of Citrix XenServer high-performance, easy-to-use virtualization hypervisor with the proven automated availability of Marathon's everRun software, enables more organizations to deploy virtualization across a much broader array of applications.

"Marathon Technologies is successfully addressing a significant painpoint for our resellers customers -- high availability for both their physical and virtual environments," said Jodi Honore, vice president, vendor management at Ingram Micro. "The seamless integration of Citrix XenServer and everRun VM provide our resellers with a range of availability options that deliver the best performance and value. Teaming with Marathon gives our resellers a software solution that will enable their customers to prevent business disruptions instead of merely planning for recovery after a failure occurs."

Marathon's everRun software is for IT professionals who want to prevent outages and data loss in their physical and virtual infrastructures. everRun provides fault-tolerant, high availability for Citrix� XenServer(TM) and Windows Server to deliver uninterrupted availability, 100 percent data protection, and rapid recovery through a "one-click" operation. Unlike bolt-on failover, cluster, or data replication products that place the burden on the IT professional, everRun software is completely automated. It makes high availability and disaster recovery easy to manage and cost effective for both midsize companies and enterprises.

"As the world's largest technology distributor, Ingram Micro provides us industry leading channel marketing and logistics," said Michael Oleksinski, vice president, americas channel development for Marathon Technologies. "We look forward to working closely with Ingram Micro to expand our reseller network throughout North America."

About Marathon Technologies

With more than 2000 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 continuous availability, 100% data protection, and rapid disaster recovery -- all through "one-click" operation. In the past year, the company has been awarded ten major industry accolades including the "Best of VMworld 2007 - New Technology" award for bringing fault-tolerant, high availability to virtual servers. CIO.com named Marathon Technologies one of "10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2008." The company was also recognized as a 2008 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate and named a winner in eWEEK's Eighth Annual Excellence Awards Program. For more information visit www.marathontechnologies.com.

About Ingram Micro Inc.

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves more than 150 countries and is the only global broad-based IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit www.ingrammicro.com

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Contacts: For Ingram Micro Marie Meoli WhiteFox Marketing & Communications 714.680.0335 Marie.meoli@whitefoxpr.com For Marathon Technologies Brian Keith Mullins Marathon Technologies Corp. 978.489.1146 bmullins@marathontechnologies.com Lynda Sylvia Racepoint Group 781.487.4619 lsylvia@racepointgroup.com