Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager

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- What will Zeus Traffic Manager do?
- The need for Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager
- What the Analysts say about Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager

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The Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager will form part of the new Zeus Enterprise Traffic Management Platform, which will be launching in early 2010.

The Cloud Traffic Manager will enable an organization to grow their service offerings, bursting from one datacenter to another and optimizing the user experience within cost and compliance constraints.

With more companies moving applications into the Cloud, traffic management and application delivery is becoming absolutely critical. Our recent Cloud survey shows that only 14% of businesses feel that they have the tools to control a Cloud environment.

Zeus will enable businesses to monitor and control their Cloud usage, with the launch of the first Cloud Traffic Manager in early 2010. This launch builds on the success of the Zeus Traffic Manager which already enables customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services, in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments.

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What will Zeus Traffic Manager do?

Zeus Traffic Manager runs as independent clusters in physical, virtual and cloud datacenters.  Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager is a natural, logical evolution and will coordinate these clusters to create a single, integrated traffic management service for applications running in multiple datacenters.

Zeus is the only company that can deliver this type of solution into a Cloud environment.

Zeus will enable organizations to put business policies in place to exploit the scalability and flexibility of any Cloud environment in accordance with their business needs including:

• No vendor lock-in
• Flexible, commercial models
• Visibility and control of usage and costs
• Enabling the fluid management of different IT environments
• Ensure applications are online, all the time, even during peak periods.

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The need for Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager

Organizations are adopting hybrid cloud models to run their services from multiple locations, for redundancy, cloud bursting and performance reasons.  Our recent Cloud survey has revealed that only 27% of these organizations had plans in place to coordinate their services across locations, and almost 50% of organizations were very concerned about lock- in to particular clouds. The Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager will address these concerns, providing a single control point for your distributed applications, reporting on datacenter usage and allowing for business goals (cost, SLA, security and compliance) to be specified and applied.

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What the Analysts say about Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager

“Organisations are keen to embrace Cloud Computing and enjoy the benefits the technology can deliver but have concerns over how they can manage their IT environments.  The Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager will help enterprises address these concerns by providing valuable insight into how much cloud resource is being used in real-time. This insight is crucial if businesses are to effectively manage Cloud traffic and control costs. Zeus understands the market shift into the Cloud, providing the technology that will enable organisations to see its full potential and make the Cloud a reality in the future.”

William Fellows, The 451 Group

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“One of the prime benefits of the Cloud Computing model is that it provides access to computing resources on demand, making it especially suited for applications for which there is variable demand. In order to be able to satisfy such peaks in demand, it is necessary that services are always available, no matter how high the load. This requires that traffic can be intelligently routed to the most appropriate site. The Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager soon to be released by Zeus Technology performs exactly this function—allowing organisations to use the Cloud when necessary to satisfy peaks in demand and to benefit from the cost and availability benefits of the Cloud Computing model.”

Fran Howarth, Bloor Research

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"The Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager is for managing interactions with the Cloud. This move signals yet another avenue for expansion and is based on considerable expertise gained in serving virtualized and Cloud environments with its flagship product, Zeus Traffic Manager.

Zeus Traffic Manager combines load balancing and application traffic management, and has achieved what the company set out to do. As a versatile software solution that leverages cheap hardware, and scales cost-effectively, Ovum Butler Group believes that Zeus Traffic Manager should be considered by enterprises and datacenters seeking to improve the management of application traffic, both internal and Web-related."

Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff - Ovum Butler Group

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“There is no doubt that industry interest in cloud computing is increasing, but many CIOs still have understandable concerns. The Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager is designed to address a number of the practical issues standing in the way of Cloud Computing and help make it a reality for many businesses. Zeus Technology is well-placed to deliver effective traffic management in the Cloud.”

Rachel Chalmers, The 451 Group

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