Zeus Technology Receives Top Rating from InfoWorld
Balancing the scales between Zeus and F5
May 16, 2006
Zeus Technology receives 'Very Good' award from InfoWorld Media Group, responsible for delivering award-winning technology and product news, research and analysis to the IT community for over 25 years.
A rating of 'Very Good' recognizes companies whose products are reviewed and receive a score of 8.0 or higher based on a list of criteria most relevant to enterprise buying decisions. Receiving a 'Very Good' rating assures IT professionals of a product's quality and market readiness before they make a purchase.
The review concludes that Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) 7000 is more feature-rich than F5's BIG-IP 6800 at a more attractive price-point.
Reviewer Logan Harbaugh conducted extensive testing of the two products, using real-world traffic in a demo version of an e-commerce application. This involved setting up several servers with the same Web site, with ZXTM and BIG-IP 6800 used to create a virtual cluster of the servers, which varied in processor number and power. He found that even when trying to overload the products by enabling processor intensive features such as SSL sessions and application security, the ZXTM 7000 saturates gigabit connection first.
ZXTM was ranked at 9 out of 10 for both performance and value. Harbaugh comments: " The ZXTM 7000 offers excellent performance and a strong feature set. Because it can be clustered up easily to 64 appliances, it also offers a way to start relatively small and scale as your application grows."
Paul Di Leo, CEO of Zeus, said: "We are proud to be recognized by such an industry-leading publication for the quality of our product. We have seen a period of rapid growth both in the US and globally, and we are committed to continuing to improve the features of ZXTM to offer customers truly enterprise-class traffic management and load balancing capabilities."
"Our methodology for testing products is simple," says Doug Dineley, InfoWorld Media Group/s Executive Editor for the Test Center. "We utilize real, working technologists and analysts with years of 'in the trenches' IT experience to construct tests in an environment that mirrors the real enterprises of our readers. This ratings program gives IT buyers a quick sense of the top enterprise-ready products on the market today."
InfoWorld's testing environment spans over 6,000 miles in seven locations, allowing test center analysts to realistically simulate environments of the IT professional. With multiple locations and true IT professionals conducting the tests, InfoWorld is able to accurately review products and services that require either a highly distributed or networked environment or a single, specialized testing facility. Using a unique rating system, the InfoWorld Test Center evaluates product based on the criteria most important to the specific technology category.
In addition to this recognition, ZXTM has also recently won: Accelerator Product of the Year; Editor's Award for most innovative use of technology; 'Product Breakthrough' award in the Application-Aware Infrastructure category; Gold Award from Broadband-Testing; and a nomination for Infrastructure Technology Product of the Year.
About InfoWorld Media Group
For 25 years, InfoWorld Media Group has provided cutting-edge coverage and evaluation of IT products and services for technology experts in senior management. Through integrated channels including print, online, and events, InfoWorld reaches the most influential senior-level information technologists -- those who drive their enterprises' strategies and technology purchases. Powered by a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products.
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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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