Web 2.0 - What does it mean for you?

If you are hosting or adopting Web 2.0 applications, be prepared for a huge growth in traffic, the need to manage vast quantities of XML data and even higher expectations of performance and responsiveness from your users.

Web 2.0 applications, with their AJAX communications and SOA-like distributed architecture, promise easy application delivery, improved productivity and rapid time-to-market. But, like pure-play SOA applications, this comes at a cost;

Vast increases in network traffic arise as applications in the remote browser make numerous, verbose XML requests to the application servers;
System stability is critical: unlike traditional applications, Web 2.0 AJAX applications depend critically on their connection to the master server. A couple of seconds downtime can affect thousands of users;
Extremely challenging performance demands: an end user may be prepared to suffer several seconds delay when loading a web page, but he or she certainly won't suffer that delay every time they interact with their application!
Traffic management and visualization: how can an administrator track and debug traffic, ensure that users are pinned to the correct application version during their session (despite application upgrades), maintain reliability and ensure that each request is routed to the most appropriate component at any time?

Use ZXTM!

ZXTM is ideal for managing chatty and verbose AJAX traffic. Full transaction inspection and full XML awareness (including XPath searching, XSLT transformation and DTD/Scheme validation) means that ZXTM has the capability to inspect, manipulate and route all HTTP-borne SOAP transactions.

ZXTMs powerful application acceleration capabilities are fully applicable to AJAX applications, accelerating transactions, decrypting SSL traffic and multiplexing data to minimize the I/O burden on the application servers.