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- Rapattoni Corporation's 250+ Websites Roar With Speed Using ZXTM's Content Compression and Application Acceleration
- Rapattoni's success came with a need to ensure that all the sites remain highly available and responsive, so Rapattoni investigated their acceleration options. Rapattoni also experienced problems with scalability to accommodate growth. In addition to solutions from F5, they looked at solutions from Crescendo Networks and Zeus Technology. Zeus' ZXTM...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, Web Site, Rapattoni, ZXTM Software
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Ntractive Offers ERP,CRM and PIM for Small Businesses as a Single Hybrid Web Application, Accelerated and Managed by ZXTM
- Ntractive required a solution that was cost effective for them as a start-up company, but they also needed a solution that would grow with them. They also didn't want to purchase stacks of hardware that would be quickly outdated. They wanted to invest in a solution that was capable enough...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, Web Application, Small Business, Cloud Computing
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- With ZXTM, Bourne Leisure Enjoys No Downtime During Holidays
- Bourne Leisure had a limited web farm hosted in-house with most of their servers being hosted with third parties. They found that this gave them a somewhat inflexible service. They could not change or implement business requirements quickly, so they planned a major expansion of their own web farm infrastructure...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, Downtime, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Rodgers Townsend Boost Customers' Website Speeds by 75 Percent Using ZXTM VA Within Their VMware Environment
- For Rodgers Townsend, the "Green appeal" of virtualization was a consideration. Rodgers Townsend deployed VMware ESX Server on HP Blades, prompting them to question the role of dedicated hardware appliances in a world where virtual appliances exist and function as well as their hardware ancestors. They required an application delivery...
- Tags: Appliance, Environment, Zeus Technology, VMware Inc., Web Site, ZXTM VA, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Innovative Italian Service Provider DNS Hosting Supports Its Virtualization Strategy With ZXTM Virtual Appliance
- DNS Hosting has a data center containing over 300 physical servers. After a number of years of successful growth, and having just created a virtualized data center, DNS Hosting decided it needed a new web traffic management system to increase the performance, speed and reliability of the services it provided...
- Tags: Virtualization, DNS, Zeus Technology, DNS Hosting, Domain Names, Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- SmallCapInvestor.com Sees Excellent ROI in ZXTM VA Within Their VMware ESX Server
- Prior to their preparations for the launch, BFP had single servers performing multiple functions, with no load balancing which resulted in occasional loss of service in production. BFP decided to implement VMware Virtual Infrastructure to consolidate hardware resources, enabling them to choose to either allocate servers for other tasks or...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Zeus Technology, ROI, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Server Room, VMWare ESX, SmallCapInvestor.com, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- ITV Wins the Race Against Time to Keep Formula 1 Website Available With ZeusTechnology as the "High-Octane" Additive
- The day before the first qualifying race in Australia, ITV was becoming a victim of its own success. Formula 1 fans were visiting the website in the hundreds of thousands, and the third party infrastructure that hosted the site was running up against severe bandwidth limitations. To keep the site...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, Web Site, iTV, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Getting More From Server Virtualization: Building an Adaptive Computing Infrastructure With Virtualization and ZXTM
- Server Virtualization has dramatically changed the landscape in the datacenter. Organizations are consolidating workloads from underutilized servers and are seeing large reductions in datacenter space, power, cooling and administration. However, server consolidation is just the beginning of what can be achieved using virtualization technologies. Virtualization unleashes applications and compute workloads,...
- Tags: Data Center, Zeus Technology, Data Centers, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-09-24
- Zeus Technology, Blue State Digital and the Barack Obama Phenomenon
- Blue State Digital BSD is a leader in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking and constituency development programs for nonprofit organizations, political candidates and causes. Because political campaigns are extremely intense, highly event-driven activities with so much at stake, having a robust infrastructure is necessary for BSD to provide Service Level...
- Tags: Barack Obama, Zeus Technology, Blue State Digital, Service Level Management, Social Networking, Leadership, It Operations, It service Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Managing SIP Traffic With ZXTM
- Voice-over-IP VoIP services are converging on SIP and RTP for signaling and real-time media delivery respectively. This paper will introduce the key elements of a SIP network, and describe the scalability and high-availability services provided by Zeus' Application Delivery Controller, ZXTM. Although SIP is an IETF standard, many implementations and...
- Tags: SIP, Zeus Technology, ZXTM, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2008-07-14
- Gilt Groupe Ushers in Gilded Age of Couture Shopping With ZXTM Delivering 1,000% Increase in Application Performance
- Gilt Groupe schedules their designer-specific sales to start at exactly noon New York, creating extreme spikes of traffic. Over 95% of Gilt Groupe's pages require member authentication. These pages contain content that is dynamic and personalized to the member. This presents a difficult challenge in terms of content caching especially...
- Tags: Performance, Load Balancing, Zeus Technology, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Scaling With ZXTM GLB
- "The average multinational corporation loses more than 1 million hours of productivity because of applications failure. Depending on the industry, each hour of downtime can cost businesses £3 million or more"1 "Each hour of application downtime costs Fortune 1000 companies in excess of $300,000, according to nearly one-third of respondents...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, Downtime
- White papers 2008-06-09
- Using Virtualization and ZXTM VA, YottaServe Offers Accelerated "Hosting Without the Toasting" in a Web 2.0 World
- Many of the customer applications that YottaServe hosted were resource intensive, with limited scalability and poor performance under load. YottaServe desperately needed a solution that could improve the performance and capacity of these applications, without increasing their expenditure on hardware. The company set to work looking for a solution that...
- Tags: Web, Virtualization, Zeus Technology, Web 2.0, Performance Management, Strategy, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- ZXTM Empowers e-Government in Newport
- With broadband take-up greater in the UK than anywhere else in Europe and growing by 10% in the last quarter of 2005 alone, it is clear that public demand for e-government services would continue to grow apace. Bearing this in mind, it was clear to Newport City Council that their...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, ZXTM, E-government, Government
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- ZXTM Supports GreatSchools by Helping With the ABCs: Application Acceleration, Bandwidth Savings and Content Compression
- Based in San Francisco, GreatSchools is an independent nonprofit organization committed to helping parents in the U.S. choose schools, support children's education and improve schools in their communities. They were looking for a solution that would run on top their operating system of choice, FreeBSD. They have three x86 boxes...
- Tags: ABC Inc., FreeBSD, Zeus Technology, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Naviance Uses ZXTM to Scale Its Business to Provide College Planning and Advising to Millions of Students Worldwide
- Naviance needed to upgrade their technology infrastructure in order to scale the application to accommodate more customers and to provide 24/7 uptime. They had two key infrastructure pieces to address - local site redundancy, and capacity planning. Solving those two challenges was critical for Naviance to continue on its growth...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Zeus Technology, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Venda Uses ZXTM to Provide Greater Speed and Reliability to Some of the World's Leading e-Commerce Sites
- Venda has doubled in size year on year since they founded the company in 2001 and they expect that to accelerate. With this in mind, they were looking for a solution that would serve them well for at least three years. In order to future proof their infrastructure,Venda evaluated several...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, E-business, Venda, Web Technology, Performance Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Virtual Appliances: Once and done philosophy in action
- Suppliers offering "virtual appliance servers" have often stopped by to brief me on their products and how they're going to take over the market in some segment or another. The most recent example was a really interesting discussion I had with Dave Asprey, VP of Marketing for Zeus Technology, about...
- Tags: Appliance, Network, Zeus Technology, Product, Networking, Security, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- iLike Offers Great Music Through Personal Networking, With the Backstage Performance of ZXTM
- iLike need a scalable and flexible solution to keep up with the growth. Their existing solution wasn't handling failure cases well enough, and just didn't give them much confidence in its future scalability. They reviewed a number of options including Citrix Netscaler and F5 BIG-IP. A few of them had...
- Tags: Network, Zeus Technology, Music
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- ZXTM Ensures Discshop's Customers Don't Have to Shop Around
- Discshop needed to manage its growing web traffic, and wanted a software-based solution that was stable, fast and would allow it to reuse existing architecture without investing in new hardware. Discshop also required a solution that would allow it to load-balance connecting clients across several servers. The company looked at...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, ZXTM, Performance Management, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2007-08-01
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