Load Balancer

We find that many of today's most challenging server load balancing issues involve recognising and understanding the nature of individual application requests and responses. Consequently we are drawn to and recommend the popular Zeus offering.

Zeus Traffic Manager (ZXTM) can read and understand requests, and then load-balance them across a pool of servers using one of a variety of intelligent load-balancing algorithms.

We rate it, not only because of this but also because it allows you to create a fully fault-tolerant Cluster of server machines by protecting against failures of back-end server nodes and front-end traffic manager units. Providing that sufficient balancer and server machines are functioning, the Cluster will continue to operate without failure.

If a server goes down, you need to know that your web sites will keep running. Zeus Traffic Manager can seamlessly handle server failure, redirecting traffic to a different, healthy machine without your customer ever knowing. What's more, because Zeus Traffic Manager can be deployed in a horizontally-scalable TrafficCluster™, if a traffic manager unit is unavailable, another unit will automatically handle the traffic until the problem is fixed.

Zeus ensures the successful delivery of online services cost effectively from any deployment environment – physical, virtual or cloud. Zeus Load Balancer is a powerful load balancer that grows with your traffic management needs. It is a cost-effective starting point for adding load balancing and resilience to your services, with a smooth upgrade path to Zeus Traffic Manager to scale as your services grow.

Create resilient services and monitor the health and performance of these services. Advanced health monitors find application problems and route traffic away from failing servers. Comprehensive visualization and detailed diagnostics help you understand site behaviour and resolve any problems rapidly.

Improve performance with SSL offload, WAN offload and content compression, as well as sophisticated HTTP optimization, delivering dramatically faster responses and improved capacity.

Upgrade to Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform as your service grows and you require the additional functionality and control that Zeus Traffic Manager offers.