KEMP Technologies today announced the launch of its Virtual LoadMaster (VLM). This new virtual-appliance application delivery controller (ADC) will be sold under a Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) starting at $99 per license per month with no startup or setup fees. The SPLA pricing model enables managed hosting providers (MHPs) and managed service providers (MSPs) to offer a dedicated server load balancer with the same functionality as KEMP's hardware appliances at a price point affordable to a much broader range of business customers while significantly reducing operating costs.
As a "virtual appliance," the Virtual LoadMaster removes the need to maintain hardware and reduces or eliminates costs associated with power consumption, cooling, rack space constraints and other environmental dependencies of hardware-based appliances. The VLM can be quickly configured and deployed, accelerating service provisioning and simplifying ongoing management, which aids in further reducing operating expenses and increasing ROI.
"As businesses increasingly demand sophisticated application delivery solutions to maintain their competitive edge, managed hosting and service providers are trying to figure out how to offer these while keeping service pricing affordable and maintaining margins. By decoupling the application from the hardware through a virtual machine, they can offer advanced application delivery functionality in a software-only application, which allows them to deliver cost-effective and profitable services," notes Matthias Machowinski, Directing Analyst, Enterprise Voice and Data at Infonetics.
MHPs and MSPs implementing the Virtual LoadMaster are able to reduce the risk associated with stranded investment when customers disconnect services and leave the provider with hardware that has not yet been fully depreciated. Furthermore, the MHP is better positioned for aggressive marketing with the lower-priced software-based solution compared with hardware-based ADCs. When deploying the VLM, MHPs can then maintain margins while pricing their high-value services low enough to attract a new base of customer such as small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that previously thought the benefit of ADCs were out of reach.
"The VLM offers the same functionality as our hardware appliances, including advanced Layer 7 content switching, health checking, persistence, caching, compression and SSL offloading. As MHPs and MSPs consolidate and virtualize servers in order to reduce hardware and related management costs, the Virtual LoadMaster delivers high value at an incredible price point from which both the provider and its customer can benefit," said Kevin Mahon, founder and president of KEMP Technologies.
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.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Managed hosting 'attractive in tough times'
Managed hosting will prove popular in troubled economic times as such measures help firms cut costs, one expert has claimed.
Writing for Computing.co.uk, Forrester analyst Phil Sayer said that managed services thrive in difficult times as businesses look to cut spending and look to sign simple contracts for services that can be negotiated and implemented quickly.
"Under these circumstances, infrastructure managed services are attractive to firms. They enable them to reduce or avoid capital expenditure and to focus IT on areas of their business that are key to success and are not a commodity," he stated.
Mr Sayer added that hosting services will prove popular as firms do not have the ability to raise capital expenditure to build or expand data centres while financial pressures remain.
Recent findings from the National Outsourcing Association highlighted that outsourcing IT functions is expected to become more popular during the recession, with many forms looking to embrace such measures in the coming months.
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Writing for Computing.co.uk, Forrester analyst Phil Sayer said that managed services thrive in difficult times as businesses look to cut spending and look to sign simple contracts for services that can be negotiated and implemented quickly.
"Under these circumstances, infrastructure managed services are attractive to firms. They enable them to reduce or avoid capital expenditure and to focus IT on areas of their business that are key to success and are not a commodity," he stated.
Mr Sayer added that hosting services will prove popular as firms do not have the ability to raise capital expenditure to build or expand data centres while financial pressures remain.
Recent findings from the National Outsourcing Association highlighted that outsourcing IT functions is expected to become more popular during the recession, with many forms looking to embrace such measures in the coming months.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Calastone Selects 'Data Centre Operator of the Year' for Managed Business Hosting
LONDON, UNITED KINDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 06/25/09 -- Calastone Limited, the independent cross-border transaction network for the mutual funds industry, announced today that its data centre outsource provider, iomart Hosting, has been named Data Centre Operator of the Year 2009 in the annual 'Storrie' awards, organised by Storage Magazine.
In December 2008, Calastone selected iomart Hosting to provide its primary business hosting facilities and successfully transitioned to iomart's central London location in April this year. As part of this strategic development, Calastone has retained its previous data centre as a fully functioning disaster recovery (DR) site and will continue to invest further to ensure its capability to handle primary data centre volumes. This will mean that, should DR ever need to be invoked, the impact to customers will be minimised. Calastone's new primary data centre is located in London, with the DR data centre located in Scotland. This distance between Calastone's data centres is part of the design to ensure, should operations across London be subject to a major incident, that the potential impact to Calastone's DR site, and therefore customer service, are minimised.Ian Taylor, Chief Operating Officer of Calastone, said, "We congratulate iomart Hosting on their recent award. We were confident in our appointment of them as data centre outsource provider and this only affirms that we made the right decision.
Kevin Lee, Managing Director of Calastone added, "Our new data centre delivers on Calastone's strategic promise to customers and the market as a whole, to support its rapid growth in the connected customer community. By connecting to Calastone's global transaction network, participants will benefit from fully electronic STP throughout the transaction lifecycle, with their preferred messaging protocol."
The winner of the 'Storries' award is selected by readers of Storage Magazine who vote for, and reward, companies and services they believe have made significant contributions to the IT industry during the past year. It is understood that more than 20,000 votes were cast for this year's awards.
Angus MacSween, CEO, iomart Hosting stated: "We are naturally very pleased to have won such a prestigious award, and equally, we were delighted to have been appointed by Calastone. We worked closely with the team throughout the data centre transition and look forward to a fruitful partnership."
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In December 2008, Calastone selected iomart Hosting to provide its primary business hosting facilities and successfully transitioned to iomart's central London location in April this year. As part of this strategic development, Calastone has retained its previous data centre as a fully functioning disaster recovery (DR) site and will continue to invest further to ensure its capability to handle primary data centre volumes. This will mean that, should DR ever need to be invoked, the impact to customers will be minimised. Calastone's new primary data centre is located in London, with the DR data centre located in Scotland. This distance between Calastone's data centres is part of the design to ensure, should operations across London be subject to a major incident, that the potential impact to Calastone's DR site, and therefore customer service, are minimised.Ian Taylor, Chief Operating Officer of Calastone, said, "We congratulate iomart Hosting on their recent award. We were confident in our appointment of them as data centre outsource provider and this only affirms that we made the right decision.
Kevin Lee, Managing Director of Calastone added, "Our new data centre delivers on Calastone's strategic promise to customers and the market as a whole, to support its rapid growth in the connected customer community. By connecting to Calastone's global transaction network, participants will benefit from fully electronic STP throughout the transaction lifecycle, with their preferred messaging protocol."
The winner of the 'Storries' award is selected by readers of Storage Magazine who vote for, and reward, companies and services they believe have made significant contributions to the IT industry during the past year. It is understood that more than 20,000 votes were cast for this year's awards.
Angus MacSween, CEO, iomart Hosting stated: "We are naturally very pleased to have won such a prestigious award, and equally, we were delighted to have been appointed by Calastone. We worked closely with the team throughout the data centre transition and look forward to a fruitful partnership."
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