Zeus accelerates adoption of utility computing

Zeus Technology, the award-winning innovative application traffic management software developer, today announces a new alliance with utility computing global leader Egenera.

March 31, 2006

Zeus joins the Egenera Accelerate alliance program as an Assured Solution Alliance member. With its BladeFrame system of integrated hardware and software, Egenera has set new industry standards for simplicity and agility in enterprise data centres. The relationship will see Zeus working closely with Egenera to reduce IT complexity, improve business responsiveness and streamline operations through more reliable and intelligent application delivery. The combination of Zeus' application expertise and Egenera's breakthrough virtualization technology will enable enterprise customers to significantly reduce costs and increase efficiency.

"In today's complex data centre environment organizations can no longer rely on manual effort to provision resource in the most cost-effective and timely manner." said Paul Di Leo, CEO at Zeus. "The powerful combination of Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager running on the Egenera BladeFrame will enable dynamic provision of resource, ensuring high availability of business-critical applications."

Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) is unique and integrated software that has been independently verified to be more powerful, more adaptable and easier to use than comparable products currently available on the market. ZXTM enables organizations to manage complex application traffic effectively, optimize application delivery over the network and to keep Web-enabled applications secure and safe from attack. The product also provides a centralized point of control to add intelligence, security and flexibility into utility computing environments.

As organisations move away from static physical banks of servers to a virtualized server environment, ZXTM, as a software-based solution, is uniquely placed to intelligently manage, secure and optimize complex application traffic. Switching focus to how much resource an application needs, rather than which servers are running that application, enables organizations to dramatically reduce IT costs whilst increasing reliability and application performance.

Kathy Yenke, vice president of business development, at Egenera said: "We are always seeking new ways to enable our customers to improve system flexibility and agility. ZXTM provides our customers with a robust traffic management solution, enhancing the value of their BladeFrame systems to speed time to market and achieve sustainable competitive advantage."

Paul Di Leo added: "Zeus is committed to helping our customers accelerate the adoption of utility computing to lower total cost of ownership and ease the management of business-critical applications. We look forward to working with Egenera to further enhance BladeFrame deployments."

About Egenera Inc.

Egenera is a global leader in delivering computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame product family simplifies the datacenter with an innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business applications, and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time-to-market, and lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide. More information is available at www.egenera.com

About Zeus Technology

With over ten years industry experience, Zeus Technology develops application traffic management software, dramatically improving network and web-enabled applications making them run faster, more reliably, more securely and making them easier to manage.

The Zeus solutions enable organizations to intelligently manage their applications, streamline operations and provide a seamless end-user experience.

As the only pure software traffic management solution, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; a purpose-built Zeus appliance, standard servers, blades, or even virtualized environments.

Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as AMD, Egenera, HP, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm and VMware.

Zeus powers over 1 million sites across the world and provides web infrastructure solutions to over 800 customers including, BT, China Telecom, Hotel.de, NASA, PLAY.COM, Federal Railroads Administration, The Institute of Financial Services, STA Travel, Strategic Command, VNU, and Virgin Holidays.

For more information, contact info@zeus.com.


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