Zeus Global Load Balancer is a powerful, easy to use Global Load Balancing solution that provides business continuity and improved customer experience by enabling failover and load balancing across globally-distributed datacenters.
It is a DNS-based Global Server Load Balancing product that allows organizations to host business critical services from multiple locations.
Key Benefits
Business Continuity: Service Downtime can be a catastrophic event for many organizations. Two techniques - Server Load Balancing and Global Server Load Balancing are used to reduce the risk that infrastructure failure will cause downtime for your business-critical sevices.
Improve Customer Experience: No matter how much bandwidth and infrastructure you invest in, users who are far from your datacenter will get poor levels of service due to high-latency, congested and unreliable neworks. Zeus Global Load Balancer can identify where a user is located and connect him to the closest, best performing datacenter.
Advantages
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Visualization
Zeus Global Load Balancer presents a global, real-time view of service activity, clearly showing the activity and health of each datacenter and the location of your users. The rich graphing, logging, diagnostics and SNMP data gives you the confidence that your load-balancing configuration is accurate and effective.
- Current Activity graphs show you in real time the activity at each datacenter, including new user accesses, datacenter load and DNS activity;
- Historical Activity graphs can be used for long-term trend analysis and diagnostics.
- Recent Connections report is a key diagnostic tool, showing you the recent user DNS connections and how they were processed.
- Customizable logging lets you record every load-balancing decision for offline analysis - customer location, datacenter activity and trend monitoring.
- Diagnostics Report gives a single page report of the health of your entire load-balanced system, giving you confidence when everything is function correctly, and rapid diagnosis if a problem occurs.
- SNMP data can be analysed by external agents and integrated into datacenter monitoring tools.
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Easy to Deploy:
Zeus Global Load Balancer is easy to deploy because it does not replace or duplicate any of your existing infrastructure. A Zeus Global Load Balancer deployment builds on a stable Round-Robin DNS configuration. Global Server Load Balancing configuration is built up step-by-step, first with test services and then with live services. At any point the configuration can be immediately rolled-back in the event of problems or change of plan.
The Zeus solution builds on the core traffic management technology in the Zeus Traffic Manager product family. It operates as a "DNS proxy", like a gateway to the DNS servers. It controls how users are routed to datacenters by manipulating the DNS responses that correspond to the load-balanced services.
- Flexible, Without Lock-In: ZXTM GLB is available in two different product versions, and in software or appliance form. It functions equally well with any vendor's server load balancer and other infrastructure.
You have the choice...
Zeus Global Load Balancer is available in two product versions ('Disaster Recovery' and 'Full'), and as software or hardened appliances, so you can choose the product version and platform to suit your needs.
Zeus Global Load Balancer functions equally well with any server load balancer and other infrastructure. There is no lock-in to any other product, so you can use it effectively in any datacenter environment.
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