Miscellaneous Management Systems
Load Balancer Appliance offers pre-configured templates.
Press Release Summary:
With pre-configured application templates, LoadMaster 6.0 minimizes time required to optimally deploy business-critical applications. Denial-of-service mitigation features defend against layer 7 DoS attacks on web-based applications and servers, while SSL certificate library centrally stores certificates to facilitate maintenance and upgrades. For businesses running applications in virtual environment, LoadMaster 6.0 supports creation of whitelists or blacklists for all Virtual Services.
Original Press Release:
KEMP Technologies Accelerates Time-to-Deployment for Load Balancing of Enterprise Applications
New 6.0 version for LoadMaster family offers pre-configured application templates for business and Web apps, along with new DoS and SSL certificate features
YAPHANK, N.Y., -- KEMP Technologies today announced that it has released version 6.0 of its LoadMaster family of server load balancer appliances and application delivery controllers. LoadMaster 6.0 delivers enhanced capabilities including pre-configured application templates to deliver reliable and high performing server load balancing and application delivery - in a single, affordable hardware or software-based virtual platform.
LoadMaster 6.0 introduces pre-configured application templates that are designed to reduce the time and effort required to optimally deploy business-critical applications. With LoadMaster 6.0 application templates, administrators now can quickly, easily and automatically optimize LoadMaster use with Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint, Microsoft Lync, and a range of other applications, as well as applications delivered via HTTP. Administrators only need to install a customized, application-specific template, guided by a simple wizard, to enable the rapid deployment of applications and a KEMP LoadMaster in an optimized configuration.
The LoadMaster now also features denial-of-service (DoS) mitigation features to defend against layer 7 DoS attacks against web-based applications and servers. The LoadMaster now detects and quickly fights off DoS attacks at all layers to protect the entire web application stack. With a new SSL certificate library, it centrally stores SSL certificates for easier maintenance and upgrades. In a typical certificate lifecycle, issued certificates may be revoked or expired - requiring on-going renewal or upgrades. Now, an administrator can install certificates once by drawing from the LoadMaster's own library, saving significant time and resources.
For businesses running applications in a virtual environment, LoadMaster 6.0 also supports the creation of whitelists (or blacklists) for all Virtual Services, allowing administrators to filter traffic at a granular level, including IP addresses at the Internet, Extranet or Intranet levels. As a result, administrators have more flexibility and control over security.
"LoadMaster 6.0 is now one of the few application delivery appliances that offers standard load balancing features such as caching, compression, SSL acceleration and content switching, along with advanced application deployment and security features, that have previously been accessible only by large enterprises with robust IT budgets," said Peter Melerud, vice president of product management at KEMP Technologies. "The LoadMaster 6.0 is designed to deliver the next generation of capabilities to any-sized business for more efficient and cost-effective optimized datacenter performance."
All LoadMaster solutions now support IPv6 and the new 6.0 features are available for the entire KEMP product family. This includes the LoadMaster 2200, 2600, 3600, 5500, along with virtual load balancer appliances: the Virtual LoadMaster for Hyper-V and VMware.
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. 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, server persistence, SSL offload/acceleration, 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 at +1 631-345-5292.
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.
