Nexus Technologies – IT Company providing Virtualisation Solutions, IT managed Services and IT Consultancy

Zeus Technology ’s application traffic management software can now run on Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN)’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) cloud computing service, offering solution providers and their customers a less expensive pay-by-the-hour option.Zeus, which sells its software exclusively through the channel, said the move would make it easier for solution providers and their customers to develop and manage cloud applications.

Owen Garrett, product manager at Zeus, said running Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0 on EC2 offers customers more flexibility than that provided by competing hardware-software application traffic management products from F5 Networks,Citrix Systems (NSDQ: CTXS) and Cisco Systems (NSDQ:CSCO).

Zeus software balances application workloads, helping to maintain performance and availability. Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0 just debuted last month offering cloud-computing management capabilities, multi-hosted IP addresses for better scaling of system clusters, solid-state caching for caching more content, improved traffic diagnostic tools and new virtual appliances.

Garrett said a lot of businesses want to adopt cloud computing, but they are heavily reliant on their IT solution providers to do it. He said providing Zeus Traffic Manager through Amazon EC2 would make it easier for solution providers to offer those services.

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Amazon doesn’t release a lot of detail about the growth and profitability of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing operation. But a recentanalysis found that Amazon EC2 launched more than 50,000 new instances in a 24-hour period in just one region. Cloud technologist Guy Rosen analyzed activity on EC2 using Amazon resource IDs, and estimates that the service has launched 8.4 million instances since its debut.

Amazon EC2 allows customers to rent computer resources in Amazon data centers to run applications. EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web services interface through which customers can request Virtual Machines (server instances) on which they can load any software of their choice.

The new analysis follows up on previous research by Rosen on the number of web sites hosted on EC2 and other leading cloud providers. He noted that the data is a one-day snapshot, and could be skewed by a number of factors, but says the numbers are “impressive, to say the least.”

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