Introduction The original idea for load balancing was very simple. Physical hardware deployed on-site functioned as the central point of all load balancing applications and security services. The networking world was comprised of hard boundaries and most applications were supported by in-house locations. However, this strategy started to fall apart with the advent of... Read More
IT infrastructure expands gradually as the needs of a business become grow, and eventually includes hardware and software from many different vendors. IT components can be relics of the specific needs of period they were installed rather than part of a comprehensive or longer-term plan. This can be seen with servers, storage, networking hardware,... Read More
Understanding the relative strengths of major cloud service providers is important to Kemp and our customers. While considering their strengths, we arrive at a more direct question; can we conclusively say which is best? Research firm Gartner continually evaluate the market’s leading cloud service providers in an effort to answer this question, highlighting key... Read More
Kemp Technologies’ application delivery fabric is supported by Kemp 360 which has two parts. Kemp 360 Central is for management and control of application delivery assets. Kemp 360 Vision is for proactive application delivery infrastructure monitoring. Kemp customers use a single interface to manage modern application delivery infrastructure which can comprised of both Kemp... Read More
Introduction Eliminating single points of failure for DirectAccess deployments is crucial to ensuring the highest levels of availability and for providing the best experience for remote users. In support of this, DirectAccess servers can be configured in load-balanced clusters to provide redundancy for maximum uptime, and for scalability when additional capacity is required. Load... Read More
Microsoft Exchange is the cornerstone of many organizations messaging systems. In addition to providing email capabilities, it also provides them with a calendar, contact lists, task management, and via integration it is the foundation for many business critical systems. Exchange Server has changed since it was first released and can now be deployed in... Read More
Many tools and products that support scripting are adding PowerShell support. VMware also did this in their PowerCLI tool that can be used to provision and manage vSphere hosted virtual machines. There is even a PowerCLI test lab that you can use to learn about the tool without any risk to your vSphere environment.... Read More
Working in the Information Technology sector means continuously updating your skills and adopting to new ways of working. If anything the pace of change is accelerating with new versions of existing server software and applications being released more often, and with new ways of working being continuously adopted. See the adoption of Cloud delivery... Read More
Introduction Kemp Loadmaster provides industry leading performance as a Load Balancer and as an Application Delivery Controller. In addition LoadMaster provides functions that you may not know about such as SSL Offloading, Reverse Proxy for applications such as Microsoft Exchange, and web application firewall functionality. The latter is provided via a freely downloadable Web Application... Read More
Introduction The rapid adoption of virtualization over the last decade solved many of the problems associated with application and server provisioning. Gone are the days when deploying a new application meant specifying a new server to run it on, getting sign-off for the purchase order, waiting a few weeks for the server to be... Read More
