Zeus Technology’s Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) – a next-generation online traffic management and load balancing system – is picking up steam in cyberspace, with California-based loan document software producer Document Systems, Inc. becoming a ZXTM client.
That came over a month after French radio station Skyrock signed on to use ZXTM for their expanding Internet platform.
"We evaluated both commercial and open source traffic management solution which would allow us to have a robust, scalable, fault tolerant load balancing system,” said Document Systems Unix administrator Nicholas Bernstein, whose company is known best for the Docmagic loan document software platform. “None of the other products were near competing with Zeus, the price, simplicity of its install and configuration - nothing came close."
DSI believes ZXTM in a “fault tolerant design” can guarantee between 9,000-12,000 customers a day can process documents reliably using the Documagic platform, since ZXTM is capable of reading and managing requests both to DSI’s Website on Windows 2000 or higher and application servers running Linux.
Zeus marketing manager Steve Palmer said the company was pleased DSI signed on. "By deploying ZXTM, DSI have been able to overcome existing limitations in their infrastructure and now have the flexibility to deploy any type of server or operating system on their network, ensuring they can continue to expand, improve and enhance their market-leading services to maintain their respected position in the industry," he said.
ZXTM features include TrafficScript control language, deep content inspection, Web services routing and end-to-end traffic security, which Zeus says lets the product translate “business logic into traffic management decisions - differentiating services, handling application failures to safeguard service availability, automating complex recovery tasks and providing richer information with finer-grained control.”
Zeus says the product is built to accommodate both business-to-consumer and business-to-business traffic, with a process architecture aimed at letting it handle more transactions, content inspection rules, applications, and back-end servers.
For more information, including a 30-day trial version of ZXTM, visit Zeus.com.
