ClusterFunk

Its been a long time since I posted mainly because all of the work I have been doing is covered by NDA (no disclosure agreements). One of the secret squirrel pieces of work involved Zeus ZXTM r5.2 beta testing. Well the good people of Zeus must have been having more moments of genius that usual and have decided that the great features due for release in r5.2 beta were not enough! So they have pulled out all the stops and are releasing v6.0 now known simply as ZTM (Zeus Traffic Manager).

This is a huge improvement over v5.1 with true load balancing of single IP, via a nifty loopback interface which can move between ZTM’s (That’s going to take some getting used to). Other changes include SSD backed cache, UI enhancements, enhanced support for cloud deployment (such as Amazon EC2) and extending TrafficScript functionality to name but a few.

Zeus are delivering a presentation where I work next week, I’ll be sure to post following this with more in depth information.

In the meantime here’s further reading

http://knowledgehub.zeus.com/news/2009/10/20/zeus_traffic_manager_6_0_released