Have you ever found yourself trying to explain to colleagues what the Zeus Traffic Manager is and what actions it can undertake? Are you currently looking at the solution and need a better understanding? Then look no further...
For those of you who are at this stage unfamiliar with the Zeus Traffic Manager, we sometimes jokingly refer to it as a 'load balancer on steroids'. Alternatively it can be more accurately described as a very sophisticated load balancer for networked services like web servers, email and applications running on J2EE, .Net, PHP or Ruby. For those of you who are familiar with Gartner, Inc (a leading information technology research and advisory company), solutions like the Zeus Traffic Manager are often referred to as Application Delivery Controllers. But before you decide to stop reading this post thinking you now know that we provide a load balancing solution, stop right there. Your partly right but would have left with only half of the picture.
Now..I could continue writing this post and publish something the length most undergraduates would recognise as a dissertation. However what many organizations have known (including Zeus) for some time now is that audiences like to consume information in many different forms not just the textual form. With this in mind, some of you might be interested in the on-demand presentation material below.
On-demand Presentation
If you’re interested in finding out more about Zeus Traffic Manager then we have put together an on-demand presentation which will give you a thorough introduction to the product. Listen to and watch Alex Gosse (Zeus Training Officer) as he outlines the Zeus Traffic Manager product and runs through the feature set available.
You can watch a preview here. Alternatively you can watch the whole on-demand presentation here (approx 8 mins). If after watching the presentation you have any comments, please feel free to fire these over to us at blogatzeus.com.
Platform Independent
Zeus Traffic Manager is available as software and as a Virtual Appliance, on Amazon EC2, Joyent, and through Zeus' Service Provider License Agreement and selected Cloud partners. We have been developing production ready software Application Delivery Controllers (SoftADC's) since 2003 and we released our first production ready Virtual Appliance back in 2006.
Mark Gyles
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