A high performance Application Delivery Platform
ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) manages your application traffic, inspecting, transforming and routing requests as it load-balances them across the application infrastructure. The powerful TrafficScript™ engine lets you implement whatever traffic management policies are most appropriate for your enterprise, drawing on the whole range of capabilities of ZXTM. Where necessary, Java™ Extensions can be used to implement additional, complex traffic transformations and other policies.
ZXTM is available as software (for physical or virtual servers), as a Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3, and as SunFire™-based hardware appliances.
Capabilities and Benefits
Application Acceleration
By placing ZXTM in front of your networked and web-enabled applications, you can boost the number of transactions your infrastructure can handle, and dramatically increase the speed and responsiveness that your users experience.
Service Reliability
Detect and work around application and hardware failures, ensuring your services have the best possible availability, whatever the circumstances.
Application Security
Mitigate flash floods, filter invalid or malicious requests, apply access controls - all to be confident that your applications are hardened and your user data is safe.
Manage your traffic and infrastructure with ZXTM
ZXTM keeps you informed with detailed logs and status reports. Manage, transform and route traffic across multiple applications, and manage clusters of application servers to reduce your operational costs.
Protocol and Application Support
Application servers: WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, JBoss, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Apache TomCat, Caucho Resin, Sun Java System Application Server, GlassFish, etc.
Web Servers: Apache, Zeus Web Server, IIS, SunONE, iPlanet, etc.
Web Applications: Exchange, Sharepoint, Outlook Web Access, etc.
Media Delivery: full RTSP (TCP and UDP) support for Windows Media Services, Darwin Streaming Server, Helix Server, QuickTime Streaming Server
VoIP Applications: support for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
Next-generation protocols, including on-the-fly acceleration, inspection and modification of SOA/XML and Web2.0/AJAX traffic
Detailed inspection and modification of long-lived protocols such as SMTP, POP3, IMAP and database sessions
FTP, DNS, almost any TCP or UDP-based protocol
Fully supports both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, in mixed deployments where necessary
ZXTM's TrafficScript™ Rules Language and Java™ Extensions can inspect, modify and route any TCP or UDP protocol.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Cisco Virtual Switch Upcoming Technology
Cisco Systems has concocted a virtual switch that it’s selling in tandem with VMware, the leader in virtualization software and a close Cisco partner.
The Cisco Nexus 1000V is a curious device because it is a virtual device. Instead, the virtual switch, scheduled to ship in the first half of next year, uses software to handle many of the networking and security functions found in Cisco’s standard hardware.
Cisco’s networking products tend to receive less attention than the third-party servers and storage systems they connect. The new virtual product can be seen as a way for Cisco to try to tap into one of the hottest parts of the software market and draw more attention to its data center gear.
The switching technology proves helpful when dealing with the virtual servers created by VMware’s software. VMware customers can run numerous operating systems and applications on a single physical system, and all of that software still needs to maintain the networking connections and policies usually associated with physical systems. To date, VMware has been including a virtual switch of its own making, but the Nexus 1000V can link more systems and is a step up from the old VMware product.
“That virtual switch today does not have the capabilities of our product,” said Soni Jiandani, a vice president at Cisco.
Cisco declined to provide any pricing details for the virtual switch but did say it would ship as standard with VMware’s software and customers would pay to activate the technology.
The Cisco Nexus 1000V is a curious device because it is a virtual device. Instead, the virtual switch, scheduled to ship in the first half of next year, uses software to handle many of the networking and security functions found in Cisco’s standard hardware.
Cisco’s networking products tend to receive less attention than the third-party servers and storage systems they connect. The new virtual product can be seen as a way for Cisco to try to tap into one of the hottest parts of the software market and draw more attention to its data center gear.
The switching technology proves helpful when dealing with the virtual servers created by VMware’s software. VMware customers can run numerous operating systems and applications on a single physical system, and all of that software still needs to maintain the networking connections and policies usually associated with physical systems. To date, VMware has been including a virtual switch of its own making, but the Nexus 1000V can link more systems and is a step up from the old VMware product.
“That virtual switch today does not have the capabilities of our product,” said Soni Jiandani, a vice president at Cisco.
Cisco declined to provide any pricing details for the virtual switch but did say it would ship as standard with VMware’s software and customers would pay to activate the technology.
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