Zeus Technology Journal

Zeus Technology, a leading provider of application delivery controller software announced that ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) has been selected by NTractive as part of its infrastructure to manage its hybrid web application, Elements SBM. Elements SBM is a feature-rich online business management application that offers subscribers a combination of CRM (Customer Relationship Management), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PIM (Personal Information Management). Available as Software as a Service (SaaS), Elements SBM is aimed at the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) market. Says Justin Bartak, Co-founder and CTO of Ntractive "In order to offer Elements SBM as a reliable '24/7‘ Software as a Service (SaaS), we needed our infrastructure to be robust and scalable. We chose ZXTM because it offers a cost-effective entry point, with the ability to scale both horiz... (more)

Build and Automate Your Own Cloud HA Config at Cloud Expo 2011 New York

Cloud Expo 2011 New York $800 Savings here! What is the current state of the cloud? In their session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Josh Odom, Product Line Leader of Platform at Rackspace Hosting, and Raja Srinivasan, Vice President of Cloud Computing at Zeus Technology, will educate attendees on how to build a robust HA solution in no time and provide a live demo to prove it. They will discuss how to save time, utilize load balancing solutions through either the control panel or programmatically via the API - and how this leads to cost savings, scalability and ultimately t... (more)

Riverbed Tanks

Riverbed Technology got royally thumped Tuesday when the network equipment start-up posted weaker-than-expected fiscal Q2 revenues because of weakness in Europe, an admission that sent its stock tumbling 28% after-hours. Its revenues were up 35% to $170.3 million, but came in short of analysts expectations of $172.9 million. Earnings came to $34.9 million or 21 cents a share. Maybe the reaction was due to its buying Zeus Technology in England, a cloud traffic manager, and Aptimize in New Zealand that does web content optimization. It's paying $110 million for Zeus plus a possib... (more)

Sun Microsystems Announces Technology Preview of Open Source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server

Sun Microsystems and the GlassFish community announced the availability of the technology preview release of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 and new Sun GlassFish Communications Server. Sun also announced a new GlassFish Partner initiative designed to provide developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) with access to a large number of frameworks and applications running on the GlassFish application server. GlassFish is an open source application server with more than 7 million downloads since its first release in May 2005. The new r... (more)

Zeus Technology’s Owen Garrett to Present at Cloud Computing Conference in NYC

Owen Garrett, Product Manager of Zeus Technology, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Cloud Computing is transforming how services are being deployed across organizations. The agility of an ‘in the cloud' application infrastructure unlocks ways to deploy, manage and monitor network and internet services. This presentation describes how load balancing and application traffic management software can deliver unexpected and cost reducing benefits in the cloud, without deploying unnece... (more)