Zeus Positioned in Visionary Quadrant of Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant for Web-Enabled Application Delivery

Cambridge, UK, 7 February 2005: Zeus Technology, the acknowledged leader in Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced significant industry analyst recognition, having been positioned in the Visionary Quadrant of Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Web-Enabled Application Delivery 2H04.

The report which compares vendors in a particular market segment and positions them accordingly concludes that, "The web-enabled application delivery market is expanding rapidly as more companies realise the significance of these solutions."    According to Gartner, visionaries have a clear vision of the market direction and are focused on preparing for that, but they can still improve in terms of optimising service delivery.

"We believe that being positioned in the Visionary quadrant of this latest report is a major recognition of our strength in this rapidly growing market," commented Paul Di Leo, CEO, Zeus Technology. "The focus for networks is now on the application, with delivering continuous high performance critical for organisations deploying web based applications. ZXTM makes managing complex network services easier by providing a single solution to manage, secure and optimise complex application traffic."

ZXTM leads the way in intelligent, application-centric traffic management.  At its heart is TrafficScript, the most powerful and intuitive traffic inspection, manipulation and routing language available. 

Unlimited content inspection enables ZXTM to analyse and rewrite entire client requests and server responses.  Traffic can be routed based on traffic origin, destination, content type or any part of the request or response, enabling business policies to be translated into traffic management decisions.

Providing intelligent traffic management, application optimisation with connection offload and compression handling, SSL offload using the industry leading 64-bit enhanced software code, native XML processing, bandwidth management and SLA enforcement, application security and user defined application health monitors, ZXTM's comprehensive feature set provides complete control over services offered to end users.

Gartner Report "Magic Quadrant for Web-Enabled Application Delivery" by Mark Fabbi. January 18, 2005. The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 18th January 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Zeus Technology
Zeus Technology is the leader in the development of application traffic management solutions for the Internet. With ten years' experience in developing application-level software, including the multi-award-winning Zeus Web Server, Zeus Load Balancer and Zeus Mass Hosting Application, Zeus is now delivering the next generation in Layer 4 to Layer 7 traffic management solutions with its flagship product, Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager.

Zeus understands the challenges faced by hosting providers, content providers and e-businesses in deploying business critical web-based applications. 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 1 million sites across the world.

Zeus boasts an impressive strategic partner base which includes world-class companies such as HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. Zeus customers include eBay, Play.com, DSI, The Planet, E*TRADE, TD Waterhouse, Cable & Wireless, NEC BIGLOBE, THUS/Demon, Telewest, Verisign and the Federal Railroads Administration.

For more information visit http://www.zeus.com/. 

Zeus, Zeus Mass Hosting Application, Zeus Load Balancer, Zeus Web Server, Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager, TrafficScript, TrafficCluster, RuleBuilder and Universally Serving the Net are trademarks of Zeus Technology Ltd. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.