Zeus Technology announced its flagship web traffic management solution, Zeus
Traffic Manager 6.0, is available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2).
The solution gives companies access to extra computing power with the tools
to deliver exceptional online services on a pay-as-you-go basis.
The platform will make web development easier for companies and developers.
Using a simple web service interface, users can monitor and control web
traffic and automate maintenance to ensure online services are always fast
and available even during high peaks in web traffic.
Zeus is packaged on Amazon EC2 as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). An AMI is a
template from which virtual machines can be created.
Users create one or more ‘instances' of this AMI, where each instance is a
Virtual Appliance with Zeus software preinstalled. To use Zeus Traffic
Manager 6.0, companies s... (more)
Sometimes it is important to reflect back on activities and achievements of
the past year in order to focus on the road ahead. 2009 was a year full of
“firsts” and exciting announcements for GoGrid and I thought that I would
quickly summarize and highlight a some blog posts of interest.
I have personally enjoyed documenting our achievements, analyzing trends,
reviewing opportunities, showcasing new clients and partners as well as
musing about Cloud Computing in general. Much of the writing on the GoGrid
blog during 2009 was my own, however, the people who have helped provide me
... (more)
Zeus Technology Journal on Ulitzer
Zeus Technology, the Anglo-American concern whose web server ran 3% of the
world's web sites back before the dot.com bubble burst, third in the race
behind Apache and Microsoft, was asking around among CIOs, IT director and
senior IT managers at large organizations and came to find out that although
75% of them, give or take, are either in the cloud or soon will be, only 27%
have a solution in place to manage it and so are basically flying without a
net.
Which is bully for Zeus because it's got just the ticket - or soon will have
- in its back... (more)
Zeus Technology, the only software-based application delivery company, and
Joyent, one of the premier cloud computing vendors, today announced a
partnership that will provide a more flexible and cost-effective cloud
computing infrastructure to their customers. Zeus now provides its advanced
ZXTM traffic management software within Joyent Accelerators - virtualized
servers that deliver a highly scalable and fast on-demand infrastructure for
websites and web applications.
Zeus’ software solution enables Joyent to not only provide their customers
dedicated application delivery serv... (more)
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4c6d01/mainframe_as_a_clo) has
announced the addition of WinterGreen Research, Inc.'s new report "Mainframe
As A Cloud Machine: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009-2015" to
their offering.
Worldwide cloud computing markets are poised to achieve significant growth as
applications become more available. Advertising support of cloud computing
makes software less expensive to get and operate. The markets start to expand
to provide productivity improvements.
According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the stud... (more)