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ZXTM Traffic Manager Solution

Every organization whose success depends on their networked services – websites, intranets, etc – will wish to ensure that their services are reliable, secure and scalable. They will invariably use a load balancer or application traffic management device to achieve this business imperative.

Most devices – F5 BigIP, Cisco CSS, and others – are proprietary hardware appliances. ZXTM is the only pure software traffic management device and is the only choice for customers who wish to utilize their investment in blade hardware.

Any company adopting blades has the problem of scaling applications over multiple blade servers. There are two solutions, 1. you buy an additional proprietary network device or 2. use the ZXTM software to utilize your well-considered investment decision and run all of the award-winning ZXTM functionality and full performance within your blade server environment, just as you can on a conventional server or network appliance.

ZXTM is a programmable Application Traffic Manager that inspects, secures, shapes, tranforms and load balances application traffic across your infrastructure.As the only software product of its type, ZXTM can be deployed on blades and in virtualized environments as well as on standard servers or on a purpose-build Zeus appliance.

ZXTM software was benchmarked on IBM blade servers, to read the results, please : click to view white paper.
 

Blade server PRODUCTS linked to this solution

IBM BladeCenter remains an innovative solution to running business solutions. IBM BladeCenter builds on the IBM commitment to integrating server, storage and networking functionality with technology exchange and heterogeneous management. IBM BladeCenter offers the ease, density, availability, affordability, and scalability that are central to the blade technology promise.

Blade servers have captured industry focus because of their modular design, which can reduce cost with a more efficient use of valuable floor space, and its simplified management, which can help to speed up such tasks as deploying, reprovisioning, updating, and troubleshooting hundreds of blade servers. In addition, blade servers provide improved performance by doubling current rack density. By integrating resources and sharing key components, not only will costs be reduced but also availability will be increased.
 

ZXTM is available as software, as hardware appliances and as a Virtual Appliance (for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3).