Zeus Technology
Encyclopedia : Z : ZE : ZEU : Zeus Technology
|
| The [Neutral point of viewneutrality] of this article is [NPOV disputedisputed]. Please see the discussion on the [Cambridge, UK. Zeus Technology, Inc. is a wholy owned US subsidiary. It is best known for creating Zeus Web Server which currently (2006) is one of the highest-performance web servers for Unix and Unix-like platforms. Zeus Web Server is the software of choice for the majority of participants in the [SPECWEB benchmarks]. In 2004, Zeus released Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager, a software load balancer for TCP and UDP based network protocols. HistoryZeus Technology was founded in 1996 by Damian Reeves and Adam Twiss, while they were undergraduates at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. The company grew rapidly during the excesses of the Dot-com boom. Zeus Technology was nominated one of the top 50 most important privately held companies in the world by [Red Herring] (2000/06) and one of the Top 100 Emerging Technology Companies by [Tornado Insider] (2001/05). A public flotation was anticipated ([BBC News article]), but Zeus Technology remains privately held. During 2001 and 2002, almost 3% of the world's websites ran on Zeus Web Server . For much of 2003, Zeus Web Server was the third most popular webserver (after Apache and Microsoft IIS) ([April 2003 Netcraft survey]). As competitors matured and Windows NT platforms became more commonplace in the web serving environment, Zeus Web Server's share shrank significantly. In April 2006, the [Netcraft survey] indicated that Zeus Web Server held approximately 0.7% market share. 2004 marked a change in strategy for Zeus Technology with the release of Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM). ZXTM, based on Zeus' earlier Zeus Load Balancer product, is used to manage traffic to networked application servers. Competitors include F5's Big-IP, Cisco LocalDirector and Radware's App Director, as well as other products by Juniper Networks, Cisco and Citrix. PronunciationAs a UK company, Zeus is pronounced as Seuss rather than zay-oose.
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. |