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Two Web 2.0 Tools Behind the Scenes: TZO and Carbonite

I usually write about applications that are very visible to web users. In this post, I will look a bit behind the scenes at tow products. First there is TZO. Most web sites are supported by multiple servers, even small firms quickly graduate beyond a single server as traffic builds. Optimizing load balancing has usually meant an expensive hardware purchase with associated implementation and administration costs, limiting access to these resources to large enterprises with big IT. Recently I talked with with Chris Cook, the Director of sales and Marketing at TZO, a Boston-based firm that is offering load balancing as an on-demand software service at dramatically reduced price points.