Zeus Wins CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure Application

Zeus Elastic Application Delivery Platform Recognized for Industry Excellence by the Software and Information Industry Association

CAMBRIDGE, UK – May 26, 2011 – Zeus Technology, a pure software-based application traffic management (Application Delivery Controller – ADC) company, announced today that its Zeus Elastic Application Delivery (ZEAD) platform has been named the Best Cloud Infrastructure Application in the Software and Information Industry Association's 26th Annual CODiE Awards. Of the nearly 400 nominations, Zeus was the only ADC provider awarded for industry excellence in the cloud.

Recognized for its ability to provide businesses with one application delivery fabric across multiple Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments, the ZEAD platform is the industry’s only complete application delivery platform operating within a virtualized infrastructure. As the only pure software ADC solution, ZEAD transforms the application delivery industry by bringing an unprecedented level of flexibility and scalability to applications in and across cloud environments.

“To be named the Best Cloud Infrastructure Application winner for the CODiE Awards is truly an achievement,” said Kosten Metreweli, Chief Strategy Officer, Zeus Technology. “Receiving an award of this caliber recognizes the work we’ve done to bring application delivery to the next stage of innovation alongside advancements in IT environments, like cloud computing. Having the ability to ensure the performance of web services and applications in increasingly complex environments is a true testament to the dedication and technological progress of the team here at Zeus. We’d also like to extend our congratulations to all the other winners and finalists.”

“Now in its 26th year, the CODiE Awards continue to recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries,” said SIIA President Ken Wasch. “In addition, its winners are a prolific testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to businesses and consumers. SIIA warmly congratulates all of the winners and nominees of the CODiE Awards, whose innovation is essential for continuing America's leadership in the global knowledge economy.”

Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform combines Zeus Traffic Manager 7.0 and Zeus Multi-Site Manager, for seamlessly delivering fast, secure and available web applications across any IT platform or environment. Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform is centrally managed from a single dashboard, significantly decreasing the time needed to manage web applications. With the built-in Zeus TrafficScript™, businesses can set and apply specific traffic management rules globally to easily accommodate changing business needs, such as prioritizing incoming traffic from key users.

The CODiE Awards recognize excellence in the business software, digital content, and education technology industries. Through a rigorous product review process, subject matter experts in these industries score products based on industry-accepted criteria. Finalists are selected and then considered by the members of SIIA through a voting process. CODiE winners receive a significant level of industry validation that reflects excellence, conveys importance, and calls attention to their innovation and industry leadership. For more information about the CODiE Awards visit http://www.siia.net/codies/2011/.

About Zeus Technology
Zeus software enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to their web-enabled applications, thus ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure. Coupled with the ability to deploy new online services very quickly, Zeus helps provide the competitive advantage businesses need, by making their online services faster, more reliable, more secure and easier to manage. Zeus software can be deployed on industry standard hardware, virtual machines and any Cloud platform, making it the right strategic choice for today and tomorrow. Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as ACS, Amazon Web Services, Dell, GoGrid, HP, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Logicworks, Oracle, Rackspace, RightScale, Sun, SunGard, Qualcomm and VMware. Zeus powers over one million website infrastructures across the world including, the BBC, BT, Comic Relief, Domino’s Pizza, Gilt Groupe, ITV, Play.com, See Tickets, STA Travel and Virgin Media. Zeus is in a unique position to assist any business looking to enhance their mission-critical Internet service infrastructure. For more information, visit www.zeus.com.

Zeus Technology
1875 South Grant Street - Suite 720
San Mateo
CA 94402

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