As many businesses look to the Azure cloud, there are many application and network deployments that require the Layer 7 services of an advanced Load Balancer, like the KEMP LoadMaster for Azure. LoadMaster, which is an Application Delivery Controller (with a load balancer at it’s core) provides a number of key features required by different workloads when being migrated to the Azure Cloud. LoadMaster can help optimise and secure applications in the cloud with a range of advanced features:
| Layer 7 Load Balancing | HTTP Load Balancing |
| Single Sign-On (SSO) | SSL off-loading |
| Content Switching | Health Checking |
| AD FS | SSL Off-loading |
| SSL Bridging | Layer 4/7 Load Balancing |
| Cookie Persistence | Web Services Load Balancer |
| Reverse Proxy | Active Directory (AD FS) |
Third Party Applications
LoadMaster can provide security, content switching and load balancing for many applications found in the Azure Marketplace – they can benefit from not just load balancing but the content switching and security features which are needed in customer facing applications such as CRM, e-Commerce and of course Microsoft applications hosted in Azure. Examples include:
- SalesForce
- Dynamics CRM
- Jive
- DocuSign
KEMP LoadMaster has been supported in the Azure Cloud since 2014, and as a result the services organization has extensive experience in bringing up workloads in the cloud,as well as helping customers with hybrid deployments as they build out hybrid environments spanning on-premises and cloud-based resources.
