jetNEXUS Launch ALB-X in Amazon Web Services - Advanced Load Balancing and Application Acceleration now Available on Demand in AWS Cloud

MAIDENHEAD, England, February 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

- jetNEXUS ALB-X 2.0 delivers feature rich Application Delivery Control for Amazon Web Services, allowing AWS customers to cut their infrastructure and bandwidth costs whilst improving end user performance

jetNEXUS, a leading provider of Application Delivery Control (ADC) technology has today announced the availability of its advanced load balancing and application delivery solution, the ALB-X, in the Amazon Web Services Cloud.

The ALB-X dramatically improves the performance, reliability and manageability of application delivery environments and reduces both the infrastructure and bandwidth required to deliver web-based services. "Our availability in AWS is a major step forward for both customers and ourselves", says jetNEXUS CEO Greg Howett. "ALB-X in AWS is a compelling proposition for existing Amazon customers, enabling them to improve application performance and reduce their monthly AWS bills."

The Amazon platform enables an incredibly simple evaluation process for anyone wishing to trial the ALB-X. The appliance can be deployed and configured, in front of both Amazon and in-house deployments, in less than 5 minutes.

The ALB-X offers clients a range of advanced Layer 7 features, including flightPATH, a powerful, traffic routing engine. flightPATH enables the creation and implementation of bespoke application rules, empowering clients with greater control and intelligence in managing their service delivery, especially crucial for online applications and ecommerce sites.  

As Greg Howett says, "The development of flightPATH is based on years of experience in the application delivery space. 99% of traffic management, routing and manipulation requirements can be easily applied and, thanks to our innovative drag and drop functionality, do not require the user to have any programming experience."

The ALB-X offers a wide range of ADC features required to deliver web applications which are otherwise unavailable on shared platforms like AWS. Advanced acceleration features such as Intelligent Compression, Content Caching, Content Expiry, Connection Pooling and automatic CDN Offload ensure that applications are delivered with exceptional speed to end users. The ALB-X is managed through an intuitive Web 2.0 GUI, offering superb ease-of-use and providing dynamically updating performance statistics.

Rob Lovell, CEO of leading Cloud Provider ThinkGrid says, "We utilise jetNEXUS technology for resilience, scalability and performance across all 11 data centres of our worldwide cloud infrastructure. It's a great 'cloud ready' product. It is simple to use and delivers fantastic performance enhancements over the web, making it a great fit for cloud environments. Our use of jetNEXUS technology will continue to grow; we're currently expanding at a rapid pace and it's become a key component in our infrastructure."

Amazon Web Services has matured from a platform largely confined to developers to one now enabling a wide range of usage scenarios, including an increasing number of enterprise application deployments. The introduction of tools such as the VMware to AWS convertor and the development of partnerships with key application vendors have helped to embrace enterprise application adoption. jetNEXUS fits well within this trajectory, working with EC2 and VPC to ensure that Cloud-hosted apps delivered over the web can run at LAN-like speeds, giving administrators the kind of network control they are used to.

jetNEXUS CEO Greg Howett comments, "Our availability in the cloud means we now have the widest platform availability out of any ADC vendor in the world; hardware, software ISO, virtual appliance and now cloud appliance. As an innovative British company, we are very proud of this and believe that 2012 will see us established as the leading pioneers in web acceleration technology."

To celebrate the release of the ALB-X in Amazon Web Services, jetNEXUS is offering their existing customers a free one year licence for a fully featured ALB-X in AWS.

jetNEXUS ALB-X 2.0 Availability

More information on jetNEXUS for Amazon Web Services Cloud can be found here.
Users can find details of how to launch a jetNEXUS ALB-X in Amazon Web Services here.
For more information regarding the ALB-X, please click here.

About jetNEXUS

jetNEXUS provide innovative, market leading solutions for application acceleration, load balancing and application delivery technology. jetNEXUS solutions improve the performance, scalability, reliability and manageability of applications. The jetNEXUS product portfolio is accessible to a wide and varied client base, ranging from simple, solutions to Enterprise-grade application delivery controllers.

Via a network of head offices in London, United States and Malaysia, jetNEXUS continually strive to deliver outstanding support to our partners and customers regardless of location. Our approach to this international presence is: Global Voice, Local Accent.

For more information please visit http://www.jetnexus.com