The Zeus Blog: Application Delivery, Cloud Computing, Load Balancing, Virtualization

Case Study Of The Week - Bango

For Bango, there’s only one load balancing and application traffic management solution...ZXTM from Zeus

“With a Microsoft-centric infrastructure, we needed a traffic manager capable of integrating with our existing IT investments. We use sessions a lot in our applications, so being able to use TrafficScript™ to build session persistence rules based on .Net and IIS was another huge advantage for us. At any moment, we may have tens of thousands of users and the ability to easily configure ZXTM with TrafficScript™ means we don’t have to be Linux experts." Ray Anderson, CEO of Bango.

Bango, based in Cambridge, UK, makes it easy for businesses to drive traffic to a mobile website, understand who their visitors are, track marketing campaigns and collect payment for digital content world-wide.

Case Study Of The Week - Blue State Digital

Zeus Technology, Blue State Digital and the Barack Obama phenomenon

When the now U.S. President Barack Obama was in the middle of his presidential campaign, he retained Blue State Digital (BSD) to manage the online fundraising, constituency-building, issue advocacy, and peer-to-peer online networking aspects of his 2008 Presidential campaign. BSD selected Zeus Technology’s software to ensure that BSD’s customers receive outstanding service and consistent availability during their peak fundraising activities.

“We’re in the business of raising money for our clients and managing the software for social networking for grassroots political initiatives,” explains Leigh Heyman, Lead System Administrator at Blue State Digital. “Since implementing Zeus, our overall site traffic has increased by 400%, yet traffic to our backend nodes has only increased by 75%, while simultaneously reducing the burden on the applications by 80%.We can now do things with our applications that we wouldn’t have otherwise been able to do.

Blue State Digital (BSD) is a leader in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking and constituency development programs for nonprofit organizations, political candidates and causes.

Case Study Of The Week - Rapattoni

250+ websites roar with speed using ZXTM’s content compression and application acceleration

For Rapattoni, three key factors in finding a suitable network performance solution were: 1) highly efficient content compression without sacrificing speed, 2) scalability for future growth and 3) platform flexibility. Rapattoni had become discouraged with proprietary networking hardware that was inflexible and quickly fell behind Moore’s Law in terms of speed.

“For us, it’s all about flexibility of deployment and Zeus is clearly the most flexible solution in the market,” said Isaac Abecassis, CIO of Rapattoni. “We want an environment that scales with our growth.

Rapattoni Corporation provides an array of integrated products and services for U.S. real estate associations and MLS (multiple listing service) organizations and has been serving the industry since 1970. Founded by Andy and Niki Rapattoni, the company provides cutting-edge technology, and excellent customer service has always been the company’s focus.

Case Study Of The Week - Rodgers Townsend

Rodgers Townsend boost customers’ website speeds by 75 percent using Zeus' ZXTM VA within their VMware environment

“I have long been a fan of virtualization,” explained Jonathan Knorr, IT Director for Rodgers Townsend. “It breaks down the barriers between proprietary hardware and software and makes clustering much easier, opening up virtually limitless possibilities. Very important for us is the fact that redundancy is no longer limited to the physical layer."

Rodgers Townsend are a full-service, business-to-business advertising agency, offering creative online marketing and strategy, along with website design and web hosting. To fully support their large and increasingly tech-savvy clients, Rodgers Townsend implemented a virtualized environment to deliver high quality services, while keeping IT costs and labor hours as low as possible.