Industry Server Networking Founded 2000 | Website kemptechnologies.com Type of business Private | |
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Key people CEO: Ray Downes
CMO: Peter Melerud
CFO: Rich Willemin
CTO: Simon Roach Products Cloud Load Balancing
Application delivery controller
Load balancing Headquarters New York City, New York, United States Profiles | ||
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.
Contents
- Kemp technologies supports employees to advance knowledge and skills
- Business
- LoadMaster
- Free LoadMaster
- VLM For Azure
- SDN
- References
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.
Kemp technologies supports employees to advance knowledge and skills
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.
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.