Kemp LoadMaster and the Kemp 360 products are industry-leading load balancers and application monitoring solutions that help organisations and departments deliver the best application experience. The deployment models and licensing for both scale to fit any organisations needs via metered licensing or traditional per-server licensing models. Many people don’t know that Kemp provides fully... Read More
All web-based applications get benefits from having a Kemp LoadMaster load balancer managing access to the application servers. For use cases that are not in production, such as in DevOps workflows or even for a small non-commercial web application, having a load balancer is also useful. Either to simulate a production environment or just... Read More
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
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
One of the goals of a DevOps workflow is to make it easier to quickly develop and deploy updated versions of applications to Development, Test, and Production environments. There are many ways to design and deploy an infrastructure to deliver this, but one that is rapidly gaining favour is to use resources from a Public Cloud... Read More
Automating build and deployment processes is a central pillar of DevOps. When multiple builds are being deployed from Dev to Test to Production everyday it’s vital to automate as much as possible. This can be achieved by using scripts to create workflows that link together the tools used for development, provisioning, and configuration management... Read More