Adoption of cloud based services is clearly on the up. Further to this, recent news from V3.co.uk reports on new figures from Gartner that found that worldwide software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenues in the enterprise application software market will surpass $8.5bn (£5.6bn)...

It’s been great to see such good traction with the media around our appointment by STA Travel. We have started working with the company to provide their users with a much faster and highly accessible website. Given that STA Travel...

For those of you that were unable to attend a webinar (Virtualization and Application Performance) we co-hosted earlier this month you will be pleased to hear that we recorded the event and are now offering it as an on-demand webcast. The webinar was co-hosted with Jim Metzler from Ashton Metzler and Associates and discussed the impact of Virtualization in the datacenter on application performance.

He may not be world famous, but King Canute is quite a well known historical figure in the UK. Fed up with being lauded by his courtiers as all-powerful, he had his throne moved down to the local beach and...

As you trawl the Interwebs reading about all this Cloud stuff, it swiftly becomes apparent that there is more than one school of thought on the benefits (or not) to an organization. What all these contrary opinions have managed to do is split the potential users of “The Cloud” into a number of groups cited below.

This week sees us participate in our second online event this month. The event is a live online all day summit hosted by BrightTalk. Zeus along with the likes of HP and redhat are sponsoring the event and presenting on a number of webinars, you can find more details below.

This month we are co-hosting two great online events that we hope you will find informative. The first event is a webinar hosted by Dr. Jim Metzler, Ashton Metzler & Associates and Owen Garrett, Zeus.

The biggest change to the Zeus Traffic Manager (ZTM) is to actually extend it into a new product, the Multi-Site Manager (MSM to its friends). This license enabled upgrade, changes the whole perspective of managing Zeus products. Before this release, if you had multiple locations in which you had Zeus Traffic Manager deployed, you would have to manage each cluster as a separate entity, with no easy way to replicate (and control) configuration elements across these clusters. Enter MSM!

It’s great to see some genuinely helpful traffic management advice on Stephen Fry’s website, The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry. A prolific tweeter, Fry often retweets requests from charities or event organisers, and this inevitably leads to one and a half million followers visiting this site.

Version 7.0 is quite an exciting release, as it really fills in a missing piece of the jigsaw that makes up application delivery as it is today. To demonstrate this there is also a new name for our whole product family “Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform”.

The new Zeus platform is exciting for a number of reasons. It will mean that no matter where users are or where applications are being used, the best possible level of service can be maintained consistently and as cost-effectively as...

Twitter’s running commentary on a variety of issues requires a well managed process to avoid downtime. Unfortunately the service has had a number of outages over the past couple of weeks causing frustration amongst avid tweeters. In an article on...

Silicon posted an interesting article last month about the way we will work in the future. The story focused on research from PriceWaterhouseCoopers that questioned 1,150 workers in the UK about their career aspirations and workplace predictions for 2020.

Zeus will be attending angelbeat, Structure 2010, IT Decisions and the Cloud Computing World Forum. It would be great to see you there if you can spare the time. Zeus staff will be on hand throughout the events should you have any questions about Zeus or our solution offerings. If you would like to set up a meeting with a Zeus member of staff while you are at any of these events please email: info(at)zeus.com.

In the first part of this post we highlighted Twitter as an example of how a business might apply rate limiting to users of a particular service. Below, I will explore some of the first steps a business might look to deploy as a more elegant way to rate limit.

For some businesses, individual users may try to dominate the use of a particular service, to the detriment of other users of the service, and a business may have limited scalability in terms of their back-end application infrastructure, which would become easily overwhelmed when too many requests are given to it. This is when a business may wish to restrict the rate at which certain activities can occur, such as sending an email, or logging in to a service, as-part of a threat management policy.

Well...if you would like to find a little more about this offering and learn how to deploy Zeus Traffic Manager in The Rackspace Cloud create a space in your diaries for this Thursday at 1pm CDT. Chad Keck, Sales Engineer at The Rackspace Cloud will be hosting a webinar with Raja Srinivasan from Zeus presenting. You can find out more and register your interest here.

Well...thanks to the powers of the inter-web and Google I came across a presentation given by John Adams, Operations Engineer at Twitter this month at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The presentation 'Billions of Hits - Scaling Twitter' will certainly appeal to those of a technical disposition. It gives a great insight to the infrastructure and applications they have in place and some of the issues they face. One slide in particular caught my attention; performance impacts of abuse and why rate limiting is so important.

If you’re interested in finding out more about Zeus Traffic Manager then we have put together an on-demand presentation which will give you a thorough introduction to the product. Listen to and watch Alex Gosse (Zeus Training Officer) as he outlines the Zeus Traffic Manager product and runs through the feature set available. You can watch a preview here. Alternatively you can watch the whole on-demand presentation here (approx 8 mins).

For those of you who have not come across the guys at CSTechcast.com before, they class themselves as an information technology podcast network for IT professionals and are based in Colorado Springs, US. In the most recent edition (released on Monday of this week) Owen from Zeus had the pleasure of chatting with Eric Beehler on the subject of how to make your applications perform and scale in the Cloud.