Zeus Technology Introduces ZXTM Virtual Appliance

By Niladri Sekhar Nath

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

Zeus Technology has introduced its Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (ZXTM VA), the latest version of its traffic management technology. ZXTM VA is a virtual application within virtualized datacenter environments.

ZXTM VA runs on VMware’s ESX Server 3 datacenter infrastructure. The appliance handles incoming network traffic across a cluster of virtual machines as well as inspecting, routing, rewriting and manipulating each request. ZXTM VA routes incoming traffic with the virtual machines being deployed, moved and removed.

ZXTM VA has been introduced exclusively through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. The network aims to create a alliance between virtual appliance partners and existing virtual infrastructure customers to provide customized solutions.

According to a news release, ZXTM VA has passed VMware’s stringent certification program, which ensures that all featured virtual appliances have been fully configured to operate within VMware’s ESX Server 3 datacenter platform.



“In launching the Virtual Appliance Network, VMware has made a bold play to create an ecosystem of solutions that will help organizations deploy and manage a completely virtualized datacenter environment,” said Paul Di Leo, CEO, Zeus Technology. “By joining this program, Zeus is able to help VMware customers improve the performance and resilience of their virtualized applications, giving them greater control over security, provisioning and traffic management.”

Organizations using the VMware Virtual Appliance Network can learn more about ZXTM VA and download a trial version for evaluation within their virtualized environment.

Zeus offers reliable and secure solution to Web-enabled businesses. The company has won strategic partnerships with companies such as AMD, HP, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems (News - Alert), Qualcomm and VMware.

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Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking.