I recently wrote a Systems Management News article about a company called Zeus, which provides traffic-management software. This company intrigued me because I admire its moxie in the choosing of the company name. You simply cannot name your company after the mighty king of the gods on Mt. Olympus and not be able to deliver the goods!

Imagine if a company called Average Joe Traffic Managers were to open up shop right next to Zeus' headquarters in the UK, and it turned out that customers were taking a big-time liking to Average Joe's product, and began flocking there instead of Zeus. Would Zeus truly be able to trek onward in a kingly manner?

Zeus representatives, however, didn't seem to think that would be a problem. I came across Zeus while I was meandering through the Cloud Computing Expo floor last week in New York City. Zeus executives said users of ZXTM, its load balancer for Web and application servers, have a good alleyway into cloud computing if they want to run their applications in the cloud. 

“If they take our software load balancer, they can wrap their application up, load-balance application code and everything, and just move it to a third-party cloud without any interruption," said Owen Garrett, a product manager with Zeus.

One would hope that's the case. Otherwise, it might be time to look for another king of the mountain.