Zeus Technology Named Finalist For CNET Technology Awards 2006

ZXTM short-listed for Networking Product of the Year

July 07, 2006

Zeus Technology, a leading provider of award-winning application traffic management software, has been selected as a finalist in the Networking Product of the Year category of the CNET Networks UK Technology Awards 2006, for its Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) product.

ZXTM is the only traffic management solution available as a software or appliance-based platform, combining traffic management, network security and application acceleration in one scalable solution. ZXTM's unique capabilities provide organizations with centralized control and resilience for applications, ensuring swift and seamless interaction between today's web-enabled applications and evolving XML-based web services. In 2005, ZXTM gained significant industry recognition, winning six awards both in the UK and the US from IT Week, Techworld and Broadband Testing.

Paul Di Leo, CEO of Zeus Technology, said: "The CNET Technology Awards have established themselves as one of the most sought-after industry accolades and we are absolutely delighted to make it onto the finalist’s list for this year’s awards. In offering a single solution for managing the traffic, securing the network and accelerating applications, ZXTM provides customers with a comprehensive platform that delivers flexibility to meet their technology and business needs."

"Having extended our presence globally, experienced significant year-on-year customer growth and having been named a visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, the CNET award nomination caps a truly great year for us."

The awards will be presented at a gala dinner on 26 September 2006 at the Hilton Park Lane Hotel, London. The awards are entered by those companies or individuals who have achieved an outstanding result or raised the bar for their technology sector. Entries are judged on business success by a panel of global technology experts.

About CNET Networks UK

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For further information: Helen Cooke, Marketing Manager, CNET Networks UK - 020 7903 6994 - helen.cooke@cnet.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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