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News Release from: Zeus Technology | Subject: ZXTM
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 November 2006
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STA Travel has chosen Zeus Technology's ZXTM solution to help accelerate delivery of website content to its worldwide network of offices and local websites.
Zeus Technology, the leading provider of extensible application traffic management software, has announced that STA Travel, one of the world's leading travel retailers, has chosen Zeus Technology's ZXTM solution to help accelerate delivery of website content to its worldwide network of offices and local websites Following a number of years of sustained growth, STA Travel recently decided to centralise its many local web presences, implementing a single content management system
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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This greatly reduced the company's operational costs and enabled it to ensure consistency of style and content across each localised website.
When the new system went live, however, STA Travel found that some remote branch offices often experienced performance issues such as reduced connectivity and slower page loading times, due to their geographic distance from the content management system.
As online services forms a key part of STA Travel's revenue generation, the company decided it needed a web traffic management solution to accelerate the delivery of content to these local sites.
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STA Travel selected Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) to improve the speed and performance of its regional websites by accelerating the content delivered from its central datacentre, as well as improving local website traffic management and load balancing capabilities.
ZXTM provided the solution, deployed on a Utility Computing platform based on Egenera BladeFrame systems.
ZXTM's load balancing and caching capabilities brought the content closer to the end user in the Pacific region.
"ZXTM has helped us ensure our new content management system performs at optimum levels," said Peter Brand, Head of Operations for STA Travel.
"Not only have page loading times improved, but we now know the service will be completely reliable, regardless of the location".
"We were delighted that the ZXTM solution can be used without requiring any modifications to the content management system".
"We were able to complete the project on time and within budget," continued Brand.
"Zeus gave us a rapid and cost-effective solution, which has more than justified our investment in ZXTM".
"Many global companies in various industries are still struggling with these issues, while STA is innovating," said Paul Di Leo, CEO of Zeus.
"ZXTM's unique position as a pure software traffic manager means that it is the only solution available that can be deployed on Blades and Utility Computing platforms like Egenera.
As more and more companies improve their 'virtual shops,' traffic management, application acceleration and virtualisation are going to be crucial areas to address.
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