Marathon Technologies, the award-winning provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, today announced a set of planning tools designed to help companies protect all aspects of Microsoft® SQL Servers, in both physical and virtual server environments. Microsoft SQL Server is the preferred database management system for a large number of Windows-based applications. The white papers, case studies and webinar recording in the SQL Server Availability Toolkit provide best practice recommendations including a proven approach that focuses on prevention instead of recovery.

The SQL Server Availability Tool Kit includes:

-- The SSWUG.org Increasing Reliability and Availability in a Virtualized SQL Server Environment white paper provides IT professionals with best practices and considerations for designing and implementing a virtualized SQL environment including:

-- Potential pitfalls to avoid when virtualizing SQL Server

-- How to increase reliability and availability of a virtualized SQL Server environment -- A SQL Server virtualization case study