Technology Solutions

Platform Solutions

Virtualization

• Virtual Appliance

  Many organizations are running services on virtualization platforms to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Zeus Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance is a VMware Ready virtual appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

• Why Go Virtual?

  Virtualization can manage the cost and operational problems caused by the vast proliferation of underutilized machines in redundant server environments.

• Zeus Traffic Manager in Virtualized Hosting Environments

  This paper outlines Zeus software capabilities within virtualized service-hosting environments.

Blades

• Running Blades?

  If your organization is one of the many who are moving their server infrastructure to blades, you'll be glad to know that with Zeus Traffic Manager you can use your investment in Blades for your traffic management layer as well as your applications.

• Running Zeus Traffic Manager on Blade Systems

  This white paper investigates the performance of the Zeus software on blade servers. It was demonstrated that Zeus Traffic Manager ran as efficiently on blades as on conventional hardware, and that performance scaled linearly as additional blades were added to the traffic manager cluster.

Technology Solutions

Deployment Guides

• Deployment Guides

  Read about the applicaitons that Zeus Traffic Manager has been tested and validated with.

• Zeus KnowledgeHub - Deployment Documentation

  Hints, Tips and FAQs useful when configuring Zeus Traffic Manager to manage traffic to a range of third-party applications and services.

Server architectures

• Multicore, 64 bit server architectures

  Multicore, 64 bit processors make your calculations run faster and let your applications use more memory - precisely the requirements of your Traffic Management layer. Zeus software takes advantage of the latest developments in hardware technology to give you the best possible performance.

Application Technology

• Service-Orientated Architectures and XML

  Zeus Traffic Manager is ideal for managing complex SOA traffic. Full transaction inspection and full XML awareness (including XPath searching, XSLT transformation and DTD/Scheme validation) means that Zeus software has the capability to inspect, manipulate and route all HTTP-bourne SOAP transactions.

• Web 2.0

  If you are hosting or adopting Web 2.0 applications, be prepared for a huge growth in traffic, the need to manage vast quantities of XML data and even higher expectations of performance and responsiveness from your users.

For more detailed examples of how Zeus Traffic Manager can be deployed, please visit the Zeus KnowledgeHub.