Why Software Wins: Drawing on the Power of one of the World’s Most Popular Software Platforms Enables Zeus Technology to Enhance its Highly Scalable, Energy Efficient Application Delivery Controller

Zeus Technology announced today the release of ZXTM 5.0 (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager). Being equipped with Java™ Extensions, this latest version enables application architects, administrators, and developers to control their application delivery using policies that build on the robust, rich, and powerful body of reusable Java application code.

Zeus released the latest version of its award-winning software at Interop, and announced an Early Access program where participants can be among the first to experience the improved functionality of ZXTM 5.0. Java, one of the most widely-used programming languages to build web applications, has a wide range of reliable and proven class libraries to accomplish any application task – from communicating with a database, to signing a PDF file, to compressing images. With Java-enhanced ZXTM 5.0, architects, developers, and administrators can dramatically expand the number of different application delivery solutions that can be built.

For more information about ZXTM 5.0, please visit their webpage: http://www.zeus.com/zxtm5

“Our customers told us that their requirements for the rapid, scalable delivery of applications were becoming increasingly more complex,” said Paul Brennan, Chairman and CEO of Zeus Technology. “Other application delivery controllers are not sufficiently flexible. Coupled with our compelling software architecture, Java-enhanced ZXTM 5.0 is the ideal, cost-effective software platform for building a wide array of application delivery solutions.”

ZXTM 5.0’s Java Extensions allows users to extend the capabilities of traffic management rules written in Zeus’ unique TrafficScript™ language. Java Extensions can inspect traffic in any protocol, process and rewrite it and can control how it is routed and managed within ZXTM. Java Extensions run within Zeus’ high-performance traffic management kernel and can control all of ZXTM’s traffic management capabilities: bandwidth limits, session persistence, content caching, content compression, etc. A user can leverage any of the thousands of Java class libraries to build extensions that process data, store persistent state across a cluster, communicate with other applications, apply security policies or implement almost any other conceivable traffic management policy. This immense flexibility makes ZXTM the only truly extensible application delivery platform.

Version 5.0 additionally provides full support for managing IPv6 traffic as well as IPv4, and adds full support for load-balancing SIP (used for VoIP applications) and RTSP (streaming media) traffic.

Beginning immediately, interested parties can participate in Zeus’ “Early Access” program (www.zeus.com/zxtm5) to obtain an early build of ZXTM 5.0 to evaluate and prepare for deployment when it becomes generally available.

The ZXTM 5.0 solution builds on the innovations found in Zeus’ unique application delivery platform:

*** Green credentials through virtualization;

*** Enhanced ROI through the hardware independent, extensible and flexible nature;

*** Improved application performance and capacity;

*** Best-in-class scalability; and

*** An adaptable and agile application infrastructure with deep visualization, monitoring and control.

ZXTM is an extensible Application Delivery platform that manages application traffic by inspecting, transforming and load-balancing requests across an application infrastructure. It is the only software application delivery controller available on the market and is flexible enough to meet the requirements of any organization’s deployment environment, whether dedicated appliances, standard servers, blades, or virtualized environments. A typical cluster of 2 ZXTM systems can deliver over 5 Gbits of application traffic, and throughput scales linearly as further nodes are added to the cluster.

ZXTM –based products are available as Software (for Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD servers), as Hardware Appliances and as Virtual Appliances (for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2).

About Zeus Technology

Founded in 1995, Zeus Technology, a leading provider of application delivery software, develops application traffic management software, dramatically improving network and web-enabled applications making them run faster, more reliably, more securely and making them easier to manage. The Zeus solutions enable organizations to intelligently manage their applications, streamline operations and provide a seamless end-user experience. As the only pure software traffic management solution, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; a purpose-built Zeus appliance, standard servers, blades, or even virtualized environments.

Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as AMD, Dell, Egenera, HP, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm, and VMware. Zeus powers over 1 million sites across the world and provides web infrastructure solutions to over 800 customers including, BT, China Telecom, Hotel.de, NASA, PLAY.COM, Federal Railroads Administration, ifs School of Finance, STA Travel and Virgin Holidays.

For more information, please visit their webpage: http://www.zeus.com