Optimisation

Zeus Load Balancer improves the performance, reliability and scalability of application services such as web, mail, news, FTP and database protocols, through a combination of SSL and WAN offload, content compression, performance and health monitoring, and automatic fail-over in the event of hardware or software failure.

Content-aware load balancing enables performance optimization and resilience across an application cluster. Throughput and responsiveness is measurably improved by the load balancing capabilities and the high performance request handling architecture shared with the award-winning Zeus Web Server and Zeus Traffic Manager.

How will Zeus Load Balancer affect the speed of my applications? 

Zeus Load Balancer accelerates applications in a number of ways:

• SSL offload: by processing SSL traffic, it frees up application servers to spend more time doing their own specialist tasks
• WAN offload: by accelerating and condensing the number of incoming connections, it enables your applications to handle more requests with fewer connections
• Content compression: by compressing content before it is sent to clients, it reduces the burden on your networking infrastructure.

Using Zeus Load Balancer to manage your applications can have a very positive effect on their performance; using the WAN offload capabilities alone, Apache can be accelerated by as much as 40 times, and application servers such as IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic by as much as 10 times.

How fast is Zeus Load Balancer?

The performance of Zeus Load Balancer depends on the licensed performance capacity, and, in the 'unlimited' performance band, on the peak capacity of the underlying hardware. Zeus 'Performance Quick-Reference' describes the performance that can be achieved on a range of hardware platforms.