Stories about: Zeus Technology

Whether you call them application delivery controllers, application accelerators, application traffic managers, or just load balancers, the solutions for scaling out Web sites and improving the performance of Web applications have come a long way from their humble beginnings. The result is a great deal of choice in the marketplace, from bare-bones appliances with basic functionality to high-capacity switch-based systems that handle Web traffic in wildly sophisticated ways.

Zeus Technology, has launched a new version of its application delivery software, ZXTM. The new release, version 5, will include Java extensions enabling developers to include Java libraries.

Australian IT managers are facing serious network disruptions after Juniper announced its decision to end the life of the DX line of hardware, software and licenses.

Anyone interested in buying a Juniper DX application-acceleration box better do it soon, because the very last day to buy one is September 15, after which all models will be dropped from the product line.

Zeus Technology has produced a new version of its traffic management software.

Wyse has introduced a thin-client desktop device designed for virtualized desktops -- allowing administrators to store users' entire desktops, applications and all as virtual machines on a server.

SSL VPN vendor AEP is partnering with clustering software vendor Zeus Technology to enable larger deployments of the SSL gear initially, but with aims to add load balancing and Web security later.

Zeus Technology has updated its Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) to integrate better with emerging data center technologies such as virtualization and service-oriented architectures. ZXTM version 4 includes a new control API, allowing it to drive -- or be driven by -- other applications or devices.

NetScaler claims to have vastly increased Web speeds with its latest software upgrade. New compression technology comes complete with lab tests, although the results have since been questioned over their flawed methodologies.

IBM Corp. has prepared a version of its DB2 database to run on Linux servers that use a 64-bit processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

One in nine servers running Microsoft Corp.'s IIS (Internet Information Services) has software installed on it that would allow attackers to take complete control of the system, according to a new survey by Web server information firm Netcraft Ltd.