Physical, Server-Centric Datacenters

Compared to virtualized and cloud environments, physical, server-centric datacenters can suffer from poorer return on investment, lengthy provisioning and change processes and higher capital and operational costs.

How can you manage these costs, break the cycle of having to purchase more and more hardware, and prepare to migrate to more agile infrastructures in the future?

Break the cost cycle

Zeus' software Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is a key tool in managing costs, improving agility and is easily migrated to on-site virtual environments and off-site clouds:

• Reduce Capital Expenditure: Zeus Traffic Manager improves application performance, reducing server count by up to 50% or more.  Zeus software runs efficiently on cost-effective general purpose hardware, reducing capital costs and lock-in to legacy, proprietary hardware.

• Improve Agility: Zeus Traffic Manager manages your application traffic, securing, transforming and intelligently routing network requests. When your infrastructure or application architecture changes, Zeus software ensures that traffic is routed and rewritten accordingly.  Dynamic traffic policies, connection draining and a SOAP-based Control API mean that Zeus software can support and enable rapid infrastructure change and maintenance.

• Rapid Deployment: No longer are you dependent on supplier's stock levels, delivery schedules and physical access to your datacenter - Zeus Traffic Manager is a software alternative to legacy hardware ADCs and can be downloaded and installed on general-purpose server hardware in a matter of minutes.

• Supports Future Infrastructures: If you are considering moving to virtual or cloud-based infrastructure, Zeus software and virtual appliances are the perfect fit.  Your Zeus Traffic Manager software and license can be migrated from a dedicated server to an off-site co-located server, or to a virtual or cloud based server at no cost, ensuring your investment in Zeus Traffic Manager technology is preserved, no matter what your plans are for the future.

Physical, Virtual and Cloud

Virtualization technology is revolutionizing the legacy server-centric datacenter, and Cloud Computing (outsourced virtualization) promises to build on this further to deliver huge cost savings in both capital and operational expenditure:

Evolution from legacy, hardware-oriented datacenters, through adoption of virtualization to enablement of outsourced or private cloud infrastructures

Is your infrastucture and application architecture ready for the revolution, or is it weighed down by its dependency on legacy, hardware-only solutions and appliances?

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