A Look at the New Virtual LoadMaster by Kemp Technologies January 27, 2010
After spending months of development, Kemp Technologies announced the launch of its virtual load balancing solution. According to the load balancer builder, the new product can be resold to clients through managed hosting and other service providers.
The Virtual LoadMaster is essentially a virtual appliance application delivery device that serves as a fully functional version of the existing hardware application delivery controller that Kemp Technologies also produces.
The solution is available under a service provider licensing agreement. It is going to be sold at $99 per license a month but it doesn’t come with additional fees for startup or configuration. Clients are going to be billed based on their monthly usage. This is regardless of the number of websites or URLs that have to load balance, the level of performance required and how many servers the client has.
According to Kemp, the new approach to load balancing makes it cost-effective for providers to provide application delivery functions to small and medium-scale businesses – clients for whom this service may not be generally affordable.
The Virtual LoadMaster is our answer to the demands of hosting companies who are looking for an SPLA model that will allow them to offer the technology to SMBs, says Peter Melerud, VP of product management at Kemp. He adds that the product development team has spent a long time developing the new virtual appliance in order to set it so it preserves the functionality and performance of hardware appliance.
This virtual component offers certain advantages for service providers. For one, they get to sae on rack space as well as on cooling and power costs that are associated with the use of hardware appliances. VLM can easily be configured and deployed at the soonest time possible. This accelerates service provisioning. It will also simplify ongoing management thereby maximizing ROI for providers.
