Running Blades?
According to Gartner, in the second quarter of 2006, blade server shipments grew 61.4% in Europe compared with the previous year. Worldwide, revenue from blade servers grew 37.1% and shipments increased 29.7%
If your organization is one of the many who are moving their server infrastructure to blade servers, you'll be glad to know that with ZXTM you can use your investment in Blades for your traffic management layer as well as your applications.
Why Blades?
Blade Servers can reduce your datacenter footprint, and reduce your power and cooling requirements. The blade backplane gives better throughput and lower latency than conventional ethernet, so your applications run faster.
If you've adopted blade servers for any of these reasons, why would you want to run other applications - for example traffic management - on a dedicated, proprietary appliance?
Use ZXTM!
Fortunately, Zeus gives you a way to utilize your well-considered investment decision. You can run ZXTM on any blade server, including Dell, Egenera, HP, IBM and Sun, just as you can on a conventional server.
Benefits of ZXTM on Blades
- All of the award-winning ZXTM functionality and full performance within a blade server environment
- Saves cost - ZXTM is deployed on standard blade servers, negating the need for separate rack-mounted appliances or servers
- Saves space - no additional hardware is needed with ZXTM
- Saves power and heating costs in datacenters
- Fast deployment
- ZXTM can be integrated into the blade environment's provisioning and management systems
- Scalability - deploy more ZXTM as your business needs grow / Lock in ZXTM today for future changes in your infrastructure
- Internal application traffic stays in the blade architecture rather than going over LAN
- Can run natively or in virtual environments, such as VMware
Blade.org
Blade.org is the premier open community dedicated to creating solutions based on the blade server platform pioneered by IBM and Intel. The organization was established in February 2006 to increase the number of blade platform solutions and accelerate the process of bringing them to market.
ZXTM is an approved Blade.org solution - click here for more information.
HP BladeSystem Solution Builder
Zeus Technology is a proud member of the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program, a program that brings together a broad community of IT providers dedicated to helping customers of all sizes build better solutions with the HP BladeSystem.
Read the HP BladeSystem & ZXTM Fact Sheet.
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