KEMP Technologies - Kemp Technologies

KEMP Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2000 in Bethpage, New York and operates in the application delivery controller industry. The company creates load balancing products which balance user traffic between multiple servers in an organization, business or managed service provider’s infrastructure.

In 2010, KEMP opened a European headquarters in Limerick, Ireland. Edison Ventures, Kennet Partners and ORIX Venture Finance invested $16 million into the company for research and development, sales and marketing in early 2012.

In April 2014, KEMP announced a further investment in its Limerick Operations to expand from 30 positions to 80.

Business

KEMP Technologies load balancer software with over 30,000 enterprise customer deployments that need high availability, scalable and secure e-commerce, web and collaboration applications. This enables customers to scale their operations by delivering applications with Layer 4-7 high availability, optimized performance and secure access and also offering users platform flexibility across hardware, software and cloud ADC solutions. The product line supports Microsoft services such as Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010. The company also offers geographic and virtualized load balancing.

In September, KEMP announced it was joining the OpenDaylight Open Source SDN Project.

Products

LoadMaster

KEMP's main product, the LoadMaster, is a load balancer built on its own proprietary software platform called LMOS, that enables it to run on almost any platform: As a KEMP LoadMaster appliance, a Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) deployed on Hyper-V, VMWare, on bare metal or in the public cloud. KEMP is available in Azure, where it is in the top 15 deployed applications as well as in AWS and VMWare vCloud Air.

In 2013, Kemp announced that it was adding Pre-Authorization, Single Sign-On (SSO) and Persistent Logging to its product range as a TMG alternative

Free LoadMaster

In March 2015, KEMP launched a free version of LoadMaster.

VLM For Azure

In March, 2014, KEMP announced availability on the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform (the first load balancer available there) of the VLM for Azure LoadMaster, a virtual load balancer.

SDN

In May, 2015, KEMP announced and launched the world's first SDN adaptive load balancer.

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