KEMP Technologies Adds to Family of Affordable, Feature-Rich Load Balancers

YAPHANK, N.Y., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- KEMP Technologies today announced the newest member of its family of affordable load balancers. The LoadMaster 2200 ensures that each user receives the best application experience possible by intelligently and efficiently distributing user traffic among web and application servers. Like all KEMP load balancers and application delivery controllers, the LoadMaster 2200 is a low-cost device delivering higher performance, optimal throughput and increased SSL acceleration.

Priced at $1,990 and including first-year support, KEMP Technologies continues to deliver the best-value load balancers in the industry. The need for load balancers is increasing because businesses cannot risk losing customers and revenue as a result of network downtime. E-commerce and virtualization demand high performance from network applications and organizations must maintain continuous uptime despite traffic spikes, network overload and external attacks. A load balancer enables reduced risk of failure, simplified management of network resources and optimized performance all while streamlining IT costs.

The LoadMaster 2200 features four GbE Ports, 950Mbps throughput and delivers up to 200 SSL TPS. With support for redundant, stateful configuration, it provides "five nines" high availability of application servers and removes the load balancer as a single point of failure. The LoadMaster 2200 includes advanced application acceleration features such as caching and compression, which optimize performance of existing ISP links and reduces latency associated with the internal network. It also offers protection against application-level threats, even with SSL-encrypted traffic. Moreover, the LoadMaster 2200 offers IT administrators greater control and enables them to adapt to network changes easily by providing a resource optimization layer in front of applications and servers.

"Today, businesses need to expand their server and application network architecture to handle rising bandwidth requirements and explore new revenue opportunities," notes Peter Melerud, co-founder and VP of product management of KEMP Technologies. "At the same time, there is increased pressure on costs and the stress of handling issues associated with unforeseen traffic loads. KEMP Technologies provides what businesses need the ability to load balance web and data server traffic without expensive equipment investment. Available today, the LoadMaster 2200 offers the functionality associated with much higher priced load balancers at a fraction of the cost."

Like all appliances of the KEMP's LoadMaster product family, the LoadMaster 2200 offers advanced Layer 7 content switching, application health checking, L7 persistence, caching, compression, L7 intrusion prevention and SSL offloading. A comprehensive first-year hardware maintenance and support agreement is included at no extra cost, which includes telephone and email support, software updates and advance hardware replacement.

About KEMP Technologies

KEMP Technologies is a leader in affordable server load balancer appliances and application delivery controllers tailored to meet the needs of businesses that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical applications. KEMP helps companies rapidly grow their business with 24/7 high-availability, better web infrastructure performance, scalability and secure operations – while streamlining IT costs.

Thousands of KEMP LoadMaster products are in use today to improve customer satisfaction by accelerating user access to business-critical web applications. Managed service providers also rely upon KEMP products to enable fast time-to-market and cost-effective operations for new and existing managed services.

KEMP's highly affordable LoadMaster products include Layers 4-7 load balancing, content switching and server persistence, SSL offload/acceleration, WTS load balancing and persistence with Session Directory integration, and application front-end capabilities (caching, compression, intrusion prevention system), plus one full year of product support – delivering industry leading price/performance value.

The company is headquartered in Yaphank, New York. For more information, visit www.KEMPtechnologies.com, or call us at 631-345-5292.

Application delivery solutions are known as application delivery controllers (ADC), server load balancers (SLB), application front-end devices (AFE), web switches, content switches and application switches.

SOURCE KEMP Technologies