Zeus Technology has announced the launch of ZXTM GLB (ZXTM Global Load Balancer), which will allow enterprises to seamlessly share traffic across globally distributed data centers. ZXTM GLB is a DNS (Domain Name System)-based Global Server Load Balancing system, available as both software and a hardware appliance. It works alongside an Internet traffic manager by allowing organizations to scale their Internet-enabled services to two or more data centers, achieving improved reliability, better utilization and better performance. This translates to a better experience for users as they are always directed to the best performing or closest data center.
ZXTM GLB is based on Zeus Technology's award-winning ZXTM product, the only traffic management solution available as both an appliance and as a software platform to run on existing data center servers and blades and in virtualized environments.
The product provides a rich GUI that allows organizations to visualize real-time traffic and data center performance on a map of the world.
ZXTM GLB can be used to ensure business continuity in the event of a site attack, data center failure or unplanned maintenance. It also enables companies to offer a faster, more reliable service, improving data center utilization and efficiency by load-balancing traffic towards data centers with spare capacity as user volumes move throughout the day.
ZXTM GLB is available as two product options. The full version offers dynamic load balancing and disaster recovery capabilities. This means that organizations can balance traffic across multiple data centers at the same time, to whichever is responding fastest and is located geographically closest to the user. The disaster recovery version is suitable for organizations that require disaster recovery protection for business continuity. With this option, only one data center is active at a time; if the service fails at the active data center, ZXTM GLB sends users to the next available data center.