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Innovator Zeus Joins Blade.org
Added: (Tue Feb 28 2006)
CAMBRIDGE, UK, 28, February, 2006 – Zeus Technology, the award-winning innovative application traffic management software developer, has joined more than 40 technology leaders in the formation of Blade.org, an open community that will develop and advance next-generation technology for blades.
The Blade.org community, initially conceived by IBM and Intel to accelerate expansion of solutions for BladeCenter, will focus on solution design guidance, compliance and interoperability testing, industry events and marketplace education.
“What started only months ago as a group of companies interested in driving innovation on the BladeCenter-based platform, has become a fully functioning organisation, supporting openness and collaborative innovation around new products and systems,” said Doug Balog, chairman, Blade.org. “The Blade.org community is already innovating and delivering new BladeCenter solutions, expanding customer confidence in this still rapidly growing market.”
Damian Reeves, CTO, Zeus Technology commented; "BladeCenter is well recognized for offering operational efficiencies in high performance data centers, but the slew of competing vendors with individual agendas is a threat to this. Blade.org offers the opportunity for multiple vendors representing the application, network and edge-computing components to develop interoperability standards that will allow BladeCenter to fully realize this potential. Zeus will bring application continuity to BladeCenter, and contribute to building an open platform integrating traffic management, optimisation and security into virtualised SOA environments.”
Zeus continue to invest in the development of Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM), unique integrated software that forms an essential part of the development of Web-enabled applications. More adaptable and easier to use than anything currently available on the market, ZXTM enables both the network and application to become more fluent and closely integrated. As organisations move into SOA environments and volumes of traffic across the network increase, ZXTM is well placed to provide a centralised point of control to which intelligence, security and flexibility can be added to application infrastructures.
Damian Reeves continues, “Zeus has a proven record of creating innovative software solutions and we are proud to join the Blade.org community to remain at the forefront of advancing next-generation technologies. Through collaboration with other industry leading technology players, we expect to be able to help our customers to accelerate adoption of blade computing to realise significant cost and management efficiencies.”
For further information on the Blade.org community please visit www.blade.org
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For further information, please contact the Zeus Technology press office: Donna Perry, dperry@zeus.com, +44 1223 525000
About Zeus Technology:
Zeus Technology is leading the development of innovative application traffic management software. Since 1996, its award-winning solutions have enabled organisations to harness the power of the internet, dramatically improving operations to provide a seamless experience for end-users. Millions of internet services across the globe rely on Zeus infrastructure products for reliability, scalability and security. Reshaping the market with its intelligent approach to Application Infrastructure Management ZeusAIM manages the three essential requirements of traffic management, optimisation and security as a whole. Its flagship product – Zeus Extensible Traffic management (ZXTM) – integrates these functions in a single, scaleable solution. Zeus partners include HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. Its customers include eBay, BT, Cable and Wireless, Yahoo, NTT Docomo, AT & T, Qualcomm, NEC Biglobe, Virgin Holidays, Wells Fargo and Play.com. For more information, go to www.zeus.com.
About IBM BladeCenter:
IBM BladeCenter is one of the fastest-growing server business units in IBM history, with more than 2,600 percent growth in less than past three years. More than 320 companies have received the BladeCenter specifications, with more than 600 technology and solution providers participating in the BladeCenter Alliance Program and Open Specification Program, making it possible for them to develop products and solutions based on the open specifications for BladeCenter.
BladeCenter has been the leading blade server vendor in the industry for nine successive quarters according to IDC. IBM has shipped well in excess of 350,000 blades since market introduction, the first and only vendor to reach that milestone.
About Blade.org:
Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intel blade ecosystem. This organization is intended to create and speed time to market for new solutions that will offer more customer choice.