Zeus expands channel strategy through partnership with IXEurope

Zeus today announced that IXEurope has selected Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) to be the only traffic management solution to be offered to customers via its IXExchange community portal.

July 28, 2006

Zeus Technology, the leading provider of award-winning application traffic management software, today announced that IXEurope has selected Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) to be the only traffic management solution to be offered to customers via its IXExchange community portal.

One of Europe's fastest growing providers of datacenter services, IXEurope has created the IXExchange portal to act as a reference library of leading services and products for its customers, which include systems integrators and IT consultants, hosting and managed service providers, and network service providers. ZXTM will deliver these organizations a comprehensive traffic management, network security and application optimization solution to ensure swift and seamless interaction between web-enabled application services.

Through the portal, Zeus will join a network of approved suppliers and partners that provide IXEurope customers with a wide range of IT and networking systems that help drive performance in datacenter environments. Availability of ZXTM through the IXExchange portal represents an expansion of Zeus' channel strategy, which also includes OEM and licensing agreements, allowing it to tap into new markets and geographies.

"More and more of our customers are using our datacentre services to host and manage business-critical network and web-enabled applications," said Michael Winterson, Vice President Sales & Marketing for IXEurope. "As the traffic and performance demands on such applications grow, our customers are looking to us to recommend solutions to improve the reliability, availability, scalability and security of their IT systems. As the only pure software traffic management solution on the market, ZXTM provides the ideal balance of performance and flexibility that our customers need within an outsourced datacenter environment."

"As Zeus Technology continues its global expansion, we are focused on building and investing in our network of partners and creating new channels to market," said Paul Di Leo, CEO, Zeus Technology. "We are delighted to be partnering with IXEurope - joining the IXExchange community means we have access to an established network of potential customers and partners right across Europe."


About IXEurope

IXEurope is one of Europe's fastest growing providers of datacentre services. Its principal activities include primary datacentre services, connectivity services and business continuity solutions.

IXEurope works with enterprise and internet customers to provide resilient datacentre infrastructure to house their IT systems far more cost-effectively than through in-house provision. The benefits include optimised IT performance, improved systems availability and reduced corporate risk through improved regulatory compliance. By continually focusing on quality, IXEurope also gives clients exceptional service levels and on-site access to a high level of technical expertise.

With award winning datacentre facilities in key European cities, broad technology expertise and a proven track record, IXEurope provides solutions that give customers the confidence that their operations are protected. The Company has over 400 customers in the enterprise, internet and networking markets including Merrill Lynch, Google, Network Rail and France Telecom.

Founded in 1998, IXEurope was listed on the London Stock Exchange in April 2006. For more information please visit the website at www.ixeurope.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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