New benchmark shows Zeus Load Balancer accelerates Apache by a factor of 100

Zeus Technology, the world's leading internet infrastructure software vendor today announced a new benchmark for its Zeus Load Balancer product that shows it accelerates Apache web server delivery by a factor of a hundred.

Damian Reeves, CTO for Zeus, commented "Most IP benchmarks are done in the laboratory with little regard to real world conditions. We simulated the more challenging conditions - multiple simultaneous slow connections - that are more typically found in the real world."

The benchmark shows that installed on the same machine as Apache, Zeus Load Balancer can deliver 100 times the throughput that Apache can by itself, whilst reducing use response times from 30 seconds to 1 second. This is done because Zeus Load Balancer's advanced connection handling buffers both the request and response queues, allowing Apache to serve each page request immediately without having to wait for network latency.

Sally Barton, Director of E-Business at Unipalm, said "With demand increasing and user patience decreasing, many organizations know they need to upgrade their web serving capability but don't have the budget to replace their basic infrastructure. Zeus Load Balancer allows our partners to offer their customers a non disruptive way to dramatically improve web serving performance and reliability without major expense."

Paul Oxley, Commercial Director for Wick Hill Group, said "Resellers looking for new solutions to sell to existing customers will be helped by the impressive ROI that Zeus Load Balancer delivers."

About the Benchmark

Apache was installed on a 2 way Opteron 1.8MHz box running under Linux and tested under various loads over networks with latency ranging from 0ms to 400ms. Zeus Load Balancer was then installed on the same box and the test re-run. The tests showed that with Zeus Load Balancer installed Apache could deliver 100 times more content on high latency networks, and that user response times dropped from 30 seconds to 1 second. For a full copy of the benchmark, contact sgreen@zeus.com.

About Zeus Load Balancer

Zeus Load Balancer is a software traffic manager that is both faster and has more functionality than comparable hardware load balancers. Intelligent content-aware traffic management, fault tolerance and automatic fail over, full HTTP 1.1 support including session persistence, are all offered with a compelling price advantage.

Zeus Load Balancer is available on most implementations of UNIX and Linux. Pricing for Zeus Load Balancer starts at £3,000 for a single Zeus Load Balancer for two servers, with a pair of Zeus Load Balancers for unrestricted servers priced at £8,000.

About Unipalm

Unipalm is the UK and Ireland's leading distributor of e-Business and e-Security solutions from world leaders in open systems technology, such as Check Point and Nokia. These have been carefully chosen to complement one another, ensuring Unipalm offers its partners total e-solutions. Unipalm's unique distribution approach is to broker the relationships between vendors, resellers and users to ensure businesses gain competitive advantage through the deployment of well-architected IP-based solutions. Unipalm offers the training, consultancy, sales, marketing and technical support its partners need to recommend, install and support its portfolio. Unipalm is owned by ComputerLinks, a public company, trading on the German Neuer Markt. For more information on Unipalm, visit www.unipalm.co.uk

About Wick Hill Group

Wick Hill is a leading international value added distributor of secure infrastructure solutions for ebusiness. Users of products sourced through Wick Hill include most of the Times Top 1000 companies in addition to many non-commercial organizations and government departments. Based in Woking, Surrey, the company has been established for over 25 years and has delivered IT solutions to more than a million users world-wide through its channel partners. For more information, visit www.wickhill.com.

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