By joining the Zeus Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program, Netcetera can now lease the Zeus load balancer software (ZXTM LB), which will become an essential part of its on-demand service portfolio. As part of the rental agreement, the offering is based on a non-perpetual, monthly, subscription model, which allows customers to pay purely for what they use each month. Customers will also have access to additional traffic management features that are simply not available from hardware products.
Tim Cass, CTO, Netcetera, comments: “Joining the Zeus SPLA program has a number of key advantages for us. By offering a pure-software application traffic management solution, there are no upfront costs and the software has the capacity to scale on-demand very quickly. This ensures our customers online services remain fast and available at all times, with the benefit of pay-as-you-go monthly billing.
“For these reasons, it lends itself very well to our business model. In addition, after completing some competitor research, Zeus undoubtedly offers a superior yet cost-effective, easy-to-manage software solution. Immediately available and with web-based configuration, we had it up and running in a matter of minutes.”
ZXTM LB provides load balancing and resilience to customers’ services, with high-performance Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and content compression, content-aware traffic management rules and flexible health monitoring. In addition, the Zeus software can be migrated across any hardware platform and can be deployed in any Physical, Virtual or Cloud environment.
Steve Webb, VP Sales, Zeus, concludes: “By partnering with Netcetera, together we have the opportunity to offer their customers a comprehensive layer-7 load balancing software solution that is easy to manage, highly-performant and extremely resilient. Our relationship will enable Netcetera’s customers to scale their web infrastructure up and down very easily and quickly. We look forward to working with Netcetera as part of our SPLA initiative, providing a new value-added service that will create additional sales opportunities, whilst exceeding the expectations of their customers worldwide.”
For more information about the Zeus SPLA program, please go to http://www.zeus.com/
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About Zeus Technology
Zeus software enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to their web-enabled applications, thus ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure. Coupled with the ability to deploy new online services very quickly, Zeus helps provide the competitive advantage businesses need, by making their online services faster, more reliable, more secure and easier to manage. Zeus software can be deployed on industry standard hardware, virtual machines and any Cloud platform, making it the right strategic choice for today and tomorrow. Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Oracle, Sun, Qualcomm and VMware. Zeus powers over one million website infrastructures across the world including, BT, Comic Relief, Domino’s Pizza, Gilt Groupe, ITV, PLAY.COM, STA Travel and Virgin Media. Zeus is in a unique position to assist any business looking to enhance their mission-critical Internet service infrastructure.
For more information, visit http://www.zeus.com.
About Netcetera
Formed in 1996, Netcetera is the largest web host on the Isle of Man and one of Europe's leading managed hosting and data centre providers.
Netcetera provides co-location, dedicated servers and managed infrastructure services to businesses in over 60 countries worldwide. A 16,000 square foot ISO27001:2006 certified facility located in the Isle of Man, enables Netcetera to offer any business enterprise level co-location and hosted solutions.
From single server co-location and Disaster Recovery to fully customised dedicated servers, Netcetera can provide companies with the IT systems they need. Companies are able to focus on their core business instead of managing servers, networks and firewalls often at significant cost savings.
Reliable, cost effective services are delivered with "best of breed" technologies, superior quality bandwidth and expert IT personnel along with well defined processes to ISO9001 standard.
For more information please visit http://www.netcetera.co.uk
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