The
Planet Brings Enterprise-Level Load Balancing to Small
Business Market [January 12, 2005]
JANUARY 12 2005 DALLAS, TX — The Planet recently
announced it now offers affordable, enterprise-level
load balancing to the entirety of its customer base
through a partnership with Zeus Technology.
The Zeus load-balancing solution is
designed to improve the performance, reliability and
scalability of customer networks through a combination
of traffic management protocols, service level monitoring,
SSL decryption and re-encryption, bandwidth management
and other features.
"We’re thrilled to bring
advanced load balancing to all of our customers, small
business and otherwise," said Sam Fleitman, Vice
President of Managed Services at The Planet. He stated
that package prices begin at just $49 per month for
load balancing of three services and two nodes. Additional
nodes and services can be added for a nominal fee. "This
very affordable solution in turn allows our customers
to provide highly available services at market-leading
prices."
The Planet selected the Zeus Extensible
Traffic Manager (ZXTM) load balancing solution, Mr.
Fleitman added, because the product offers a variety
of features that could be extended directly to The Planet’s
customers through its proprietary ORBIT™ portal.
"With user-level access to load balancing functions
through ORBIT, customers can load balance any server
in our datacenter and manage settings in real-time,"
Mr. Fleitman said. "This level of control is truly
unprecedented at this price point."
Steve
Palmer, Vice President of Marketing at Zeus Technology,
commented, "Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager is
the next generation in application traffic management
and load balancing. With ZXTM, The Planet can offer
its customers a single solution that combines traffic
management with advanced security and optimization capabilities."
About Zeus Technology
Zeus Technology is the leader in the development of
application traffic management solutions for the Internet.
Through a successful combination of support and consultancy
services and products that lead the industry in performance,
scalability, reliability and security, Zeus provides
application infrastructure solutions to over 800 customers,
powering over one million sites across the world. For
additional information, visit http://www.zeus.com/.
About The Planet
Launched in 1994 and based in Dallas, The Planet provides
a world of Internet and hosting services and solutions.
As one of the fastest growing managed hosting providers
in the United States, the company serves small business
and enterprise clients with value-added services such
as advanced server monitoring, database administration,
managed data storage, virtual private networks and more.
For further information, visit http://www.theplanet.com/,
or http://www.servermatrix.com/.
Media Contacts
The Planet
Kristin Herring
214-782-7768
kherring@theplanet.com |
