Zeus Technology shatters record secure Web serving benchmarks using AMD Opteron(tm) processor-based systems
Zeus Technology, the acknowledged leader in mission-critical hosting automation and Web infrastructure solutions, today announced that the Zeus Web Server and Zeus Load Balancer will be optimized for the 64-bit AMD OpteronTM proc
Zeus Technology, the acknowledged leader in mission-critical hosting automation and Web infrastructure solutions, today announced that the Zeus Web Server and Zeus Load Balancer will be optimized for the 64-bit AMD Opteron
Using a 4p 4-way AMD Opteron processor-based server, Zeus Web Server scored a SPECweb99_SSL score of 3498. Compared with Sun Microsystem's latest published score of 568, the AMD Opteron processor-based system provides better performance than six four-processor UltraSparc III-based servers. AMD Opteron processor-based servers provide customers mainstream x86 server pricing, while also providing the fastest 4 processor SPECweb99_SSL score ever, and even beating all previous 8 processor SPECweb99_SSL scores.
"Servers based on AMD Opteron processors running Zeus Web Server and Zeus Load Balancer provide the industry's fastest 4p server performance," said Ben Williams, AMD's director of the server/workstation business segment. "With AMD64 technology, customers can now scale their enterprise Web services with a 64-bit x86 server environment."
"With commodity hardware running at this speed it no longer makes sense to purchase dedicated hardware to perform load balancing." said John Paterson, Zeus CEO, "Software load balancing solutions when optimized for performant industry standard processors like AMD Opteron processors can perform just as adequately as hard wired units, but with the flexibility and upgradeability that only software can offer."
About Zeus Web Server
Zeus Web Server is the most scalable, high-performance web server software available, underpinning business-critical solutions for the world's leading web hosting, content provider and secure e-commerce companies. Flexible web-based management, extensive integration capabilities, and the most comprehensive range of features available from commercial server software, combine to provide fully extensible and future-proof web-based solutions
Zeus Web Server regularly wins awards as best in class and is the industry standard for SPECweb benchmarking.
About Zeus Load Balancer
Zeus Load Balancer is a powerful traffic management solution for providers of clustered network services such as web or mail.
Zeus Load Balancer improves the performance, reliability and scalability of TCP/IP based network services such as web, mail, news, ftp and database protocols, through a combination of content-aware traffic management, performance and health monitoring, and automatic fail-over in the event of hardware or software failure. Zeus Load Balancer can add traffic management intelligence to existing hardware load balancing solutions.
Request-aware traffic management enables performance optimization and resilience across a web server cluster, whether it contains Zeus Web Servers, Apache, IIS servers or any combination. Throughput and responsiveness is measurably improved by the traffic management capabilities and the high performance request handling architecture shared with the award-winning Zeus Web Server.
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