Zeus Load Balancer

A high performance Load Balancer

Zeus Load Balancer adds load balancing and resilience to your services, with high-performance SSL and content compression, content-aware traffic management rules and flexible health monitoring. It offers a low-cost starting point, with a smooth and cost-effective upgrade path to scale as your service grows.
Zeus Load Balancer is available as software and as a Virtual Appliance, on Amazon EC2, and through Zeus' Service Provider License Agreement and selected Cloud partners.

Features

• Improves Performance
  With integrated SSL, WAN offload, and content compression, Zeus Load Balancer dramatically accelerates many networked applications.
• Creates Resilience
  Zeus Load Balancer can be deployed in active / active high-availability pairs for load balancer resilience, and creates fault-tolerance for your back-end servers.
• Adds Intelligence
  Content inspection rules allow you to send requests for certain web pages to specific groups of servers.
• Improves Reliability
  By continually monitoring the health of your back-end servers, failed servers are automatically detected and removed from the cluster until they recover.
• Ease of Use
  Zeus Load Balancer takes minutes to install and configure, and includes a secure, web-based graphical user interface which provides you with visual alerting, health monitoring and cluster diagnostics.
• Advanced Load Balancing Algorithms
  When deciding which is the most suitable server to send a request to, Zeus Load Balancer makes use of several advanced algorithms, bringing extreme efficiency to content delivery.
• One-Click Session Persistence
  If sticky sessions are required for your web application, just turn on session affinity with one click.
• Connection Draining
  Allows you to remove back-end servers from your cluster safely without disrupting any users' sessions.
• Security
  Provides protection against intrusion and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, and is designed from the outset with security in mind.

Feature Comparison

The Feature Comparison matrix describes the differences between Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer.

Product Review

IT Pro - September 2008
ZXTM LB 5.0 reviewed by IT Pro's Roger Howorth

In this Section

• Management
• Optimization
• Security
• Features
• Upgrades

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