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Zeus Technology Introduction
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Run this desktop evaluation on any Windows or Linux system and learn how to configure and manage a versatile web application. The step-by-step instructions will get you started and using ZXTM within minutes.
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About Zeus Technology
Founded in 1995, Zeus Technology provides software that enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services. Zeus' ZXTM solution dramatically improves network and web-enabled applications making them faster, more reliable and easier to manage.
As the only pure software traffic management solution, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; a purpose-built Zeus appliance, standard servers, blades, or even virtualized environments.
Web-enabled businesses rely on Zeus for reliability, scalability and security. Reshaping the market by taking an intelligent approach to application traffic management, Zeus integrates the three essential business requirements of traffic management, optimization and security in a single robust and scalable solution. This provides centralized control and resilience for applications, and ensures swift and seamless interaction between web-enabled application services.
Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as AMD, Dell Egenera, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm and VMware.
Zeus powers over 1 million sites across the world and provides web infrastructure solutions to over 800 customers including Business Financial Publishing, BT, China Telecom, Hotel.de, iLike, NASA, PLAY.COM, Rapattoni, Rodgers Townsend, STA Travel and VNU.
For more information, please visit: www.zeus.com
ZXTM - A high performance Application Delivery Platform
The powerful TrafficScriptT engine lets you implement whatever traffic management policies are most appropriate for your enterprise, drawing on the whole range of capabilities of ZXTM. Where necessary, JavaT Extensions can be used to implement additional, complex traffic transformations and other policies.
Capabilities and Benefits
Application Acceleration
By placing ZXTM in front of your networked and web-enabled applications, you can boost the number of transactions your infrastructure can handle, and dramatically increase the speed and responsiveness that your users experience.
Service Reliability
Detect and work around application and hardware failures, ensuring your services have the best possible availability, whatever the circumstances.
Application Security
Mitigate flash floods, filter invalid or malicious requests, apply access controls - all to be confident that your applications are hardened and your user data is safe.
Manage your traffic and infrastructure with ZXTM
ZXTM keeps you informed with detailed logs and status reports. Manage, transform and route traffic across multiple applications, and manage clusters of application servers to reduce your operational costs.
A high performance Application Delivery Platform
ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) manages your application traffic, inspecting, transforming and routing requests as it load-balances them across the application infrastructure. The powerful TrafficScript™ engine lets you implement whatever traffic management policies are most appropriate for your enterprise, drawing on the whole range of capabilities of ZXTM. Where necessary, Java™ Extensions can be used to implement additional, complex traffic transformations and other policies.
- What is an Application Delivery Controller?
- ZXTM Product Options
- What's new in ZXTM 5.0
- Service Provider Licensing for ZXTM
Capabilities and Benefits
By placing ZXTM in front of your networked and web-enabled applications, you can boost the number of transactions your infrastructure can handle, and dramatically increase the speed and responsiveness that your users experience.
Detect and work around application and hardware failures, ensuring your services have the best possible availability, whatever the circumstances.
Mitigate flash floods, filter invalid or malicious requests, apply access controls - all to be confident that your applications are hardened and your user data is safe.
ZXTM keeps you informed with detailed logs and status reports. Manage, transform and route traffic across multiple applications, and manage clusters of application servers to reduce your operational costs.
- Find out how ZXTM works
Protocol and Application Support
- Application servers: WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, JBoss, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Apache TomCat, Caucho Resin, GlassFish, etc.
- Web Servers: Apache, Zeus Web Server, IIS, SunONE, iPlanet, etc.
- Web Applications: Exchange, Sharepoint, Outlook Web Access, etc.
- Media Delivery: full RTSP (TCP and UDP) support for Windows Media Services, Darwin Streaming Server, Helix Server, QuickTime Streaming Server
- VoIP Applications: support for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
- Next-generation protocols, including on-the-fly acceleration, inspection and modification of Web2.0/AJAX traffic
- Detailed inspection and modification of long-lived protocols such as SMTP, POP3, IMAP and database sessions
- FTP, DNS, almost any TCP or UDP-based protocol
- Fully supports both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, in mixed deployments where necessary
ZXTM's TrafficScript™ Rules Language and Java™ Extensions can inspect, modify and route any TCP or UDP protocol.
ZXTM GLB is a powerful, easy to use Global Server Load Balancing solution that provides business continuity and improved customer experience by enabling failover and load balancing across globally-distributed datacenters.
It is a DNS-based Global Server Load Balancing product that allows organizations to host business critical services from multiple locations.
Key Benefits
- Business Continuity: In the event of a catastrophic datacenter failure, ZXTM GLB will direct your users to alternative datacenters that host your services.
- Improve Customer Experience: ZXTM GLB can load-balance your users across multiple datacenters, directing each user transparently to the datacenter that is performing the best and is geographically closest.
Advantages
- Visualization: The real-time traffic visualization in ZXTM GLB gives an almost hypnotic view of your customer activity and datacenter health!
- Easy to Deploy: ZXTM GLB extends your existing DNS configuration, manipulating responses to control user activity. It does not replace any existing infrastructure, and can be easily deployed or removed.
- Flexible, without lock-in: ZXTM GLB is available in two different product versions, and in software or appliance form. It functions equally well with any vendor's server load balancer and other infrastructure.
Traffic Management for Virtualized Environments
Available for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and WindowsVirtual Server 2005 R2.
ZXTM VA has passed VMware's stringent Virtual Appliance Certification program and can also be deployed on Windows Server systems equipped with Virtual Server 2005 R2. It contains the award-winning ZXTM or ZXTM LB software, a proven operating system foundation and additional management tools to make installation and configuration quick and easy.
Benefits of ZXTM VA
- Fast and easy deployment
- VMware Certified, Supported on Win2K
- Lower consumption of datacenter resources
- Scalability with growing business needs
- Award-winning functionality of ZXTM or ZXTM LB.
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ZXTM VA is the only traffic management solution available as a virtual appliance. ZXTM VA is available with either ZXTM traffic management software, or ZXTM LB load balancing software.
Supported platforms
Platform Fully Supported OS version VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 ESX 3.0 (3.0.0+) Microsoft Virtual Server Windows Server 2003R2, Virtual Server 2005R2
Alternative Platforms
ZXTM Software can be installed on any supported Linux, Solaris or FreeBSD server.