Case Studies and Customer Success Stories

Real-world examples of Kemp helping improve application experience

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Vanquish Tech

SummaryVanquish Tech is a UK-based provider of specialized IT services across the world. While the company has a variety of tools under its belt, its deployment of Progress® LoadMaster® ha

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Lamprell’s Digital Business Unit team needed to find an on-premise balancer for the company’s Digital Twin application servers. The team was looking to deliver a cybersecurity solution that fits within specific data sovereignty laws and develop a security tool within the company’s budget.

Primi sui Motori S.p.A.

Founded in 2007 as a specialist company dedicated to optimizing research engines as well as being recognized for skills in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Primi sui Motori S.p.A

Hyundai

Hyundai UK has successfully migrated to the new Microsoft Exchange 2010 solution with the help of Kemp Technologies and the Kemp LoadMaster 2200 to ensure uninterrupted email service.The new

Hill Dickinson

International Law firm Hill Dickinson LLP is using a pair of Kemp LoadMaster 2600 appliances at its primary data center in Liverpool to ensure high availability and resilience for its new Microsoft

University of Northampton

The University of Northampton has installed Kemp load balancing appliances to improve the performance and resilience

MoneyWeek

MoneyWeek is the UK’s best selling financial magazine. Published every Friday, it is a weekly investment magazine that covers financial and economic news and provides commentary and analysis

REDPLAID

REDPLAID Managed Hosting is a leading provider of secure and reliable managed hosting solutions targeted at small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide. REDPLAID is a division of Connectria C

Infinite Campus

Assisting over 1,600 local school districts, Infinite Campus is a provider of comprehensive education s

SkyVantage

“The Kemp LoadMaster outperformed every other product we tested, and some of the products cost as much as 100 times more than the Kemp product. At first, we found it har

Springfield School District

Prior to installing the PowerSchool Management system this year, the Springfield school district had a manual, distributed student information system where each school had its own server and record

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is the sixth-largest university in the country with 50,000 students. Its Provost IT Office (PITO) maintains IT assets and services for approximately 40 different department

Victrix

Victrix (Quebec, Canada) is a leading IT solutions provider with a customer base consisting of numerous educational institutions. As part of its various practices, Victrix provides Microsoft based

SMA Solar Technology AG

SMA Solar Technology AG, based in Niestetal Germany, is a global leader in the manufacturing of PV inverters for all applications. Represented in all the important photovoltaic markets in 21 countr

RTÉ Player

When Ireland played France in the nail-biting final battle to win the rugby Six Nations Championship, tens of thousands of viewers watched the game over the internet on RTÉ Player – the web-based p

Austin Bank

Austin Bank's internet operation faced two major challenges: website congestion from heavy use, and slow ISP technology across its rural footprint. The problems are partially due to the East Texas-

Cisco

Peak 10, an IT infrastructure solutions provider experienced increased demand for their hosting services and found that their existing infrastructure was under pressure. Peak 10 decided to update their environment with 24 Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Servers virtualized using VMware and wanted a complementing load balancing solution that could provide increased performance and high availability for customers applications.

Macmillan Cancer Support

With over 1,500 office staff and remote volunteers doing vaulable work to help thousands of people affected by cancer, Macmillan has installed Kemp LM-2600 LoadMaster appliances to increase the per

TalkTalk Business

TalkTalk Business is one of the UK's fastest growing B2B operators. For over 20 years, the company has been providing scalable technology and dedicated support services to more than 180,000 large a

Kent County Council

Kemp’s LoadMaster integrates with Cisco UCS to increase application performance and availability.Kent County Council (KCC) is virtualizing its application infrastructure and using Kemp loa

GSP

In business since 1978, GSP started as a jack-of-all-trades printer, producing everything from political signage to bumper stickers. In the mid-eighties, the company began to focus on producing poi

Roskilde University

Since Roskilde University first opened its doors in 1972, it has been one of Denmark's leading universities with their emphasis on interdisciplinary, problem-oriented project and teamwork. Roskilde

Kennet School

State-of-the-art Academy, Kennet School in Berkshire, has deployed a pair of Kemp LoadMaster 2200 se

Nestle Waters

The Al Manhal Water Factory in Saudi Arabia, a subsidiary of Nestle Waters, has installed Kemp server load balancing appliances to deliver high availability and optimised performance for its Micros

Sundsvall

Sundsvall in Sweden describes itself as the ‘little big city’, sitting between two hills on the coast north of Stockholm, it is home to around 97,000 people. The region’s municipality, Sundsvalls k

Audi

Audi Volkswagen Middle East has installed a Kemp LM 2200 load balancer at its offices in Dubai to ensure maximum network uptime for its Micros

TrustFord

When Ford Retail re-launched as TrustFord last year and became the world’s largest dedicated Ford dealership, it chose virtual

Osbourne Clarke

International legal practice Osborne Clarke may have been founded in 1748, but it thrives on being approachable and dispenses with stuffiness and pointless tradition. Its forward-thinking attitude

Aptuit

Aptuit provides pharmaceutical research and development services. The business is headquartered in Connecticut in the United States with one of its major centers of operations located in Verona, It

Deltion College

With over 15,000 students and 1,200 staff, Deltion College in the Dutch city of Zwolle has always been an early adopter of proven new technologies and is now leading the way in Software Defined Net

Syddansk universitet

Klokken er 7.45 om morgenen. En studerende sidder i toget på vej til Syddansk universitet (SDU) i Odense og booker møder i sin kalender og svarer på e-mails fra sin projektgruppe over sin smartphon

Mauro Saviola Group

The largest company globally in the recycling of post-consumer wood boosts its network security with Kemp’s Virtual LoadMaster™ solutionAD Consulting, authorized Kemp partner, implemented

Unigo

Integrating several Azure-based web apps into a single, seamless end-user experience without weeks of code-level integration, Unigo relied on Kemp’s VLM for Azure to get up and running in under a w

ACP

“When various scenarios had been outlined and the pros and cons weighed up, the customer chose geo DNS load balancers from Kemp Technologies. They deliver the necessary functionality at a reasonab

Education First

As Education First (EF) experienced rapid growth in the Asia Pacific region, they noticed that increased pressure was being put on their application infrastructure. To improve performance and streamline IT operations they decided to migrate their core applications to AWS Cloud but, during the cloud migration, they realized that their existing F5 load balancers were not suitable for a cloud deployment.

Galp

Galp is currently the only oil and natural gas product group in Portugal. Its activities range from oil and natural gas extraction and production to oil refining and distribution, natural gas distr

Sageworks

Financial information company, Sageworks, now part of Abrigo, had been utilizing F5 Big-IP for their load balancing requirements but due to issues experienced with support, responsiveness and a complex UI, they required an alternative solution. They began the search for a load balancer that would be easy to use, could be deployed quickly and provide increased responsiveness.

Sligro Food Group

Sligro was running a wide range of both internal and external business applications within its extensive environment. This combined with the fact that they were using ADCs from multiple vendors to provide uptime and security authentication for their applications, led to several issues with cost and the management of ADCs scattered across multiple systems.

MobileIron

A U.S. based organization operating in the R&D industry with 500 employees across four locations required a high performance and intelligent virtual load balancing solution to provide high

Elbphilharmonie

After opening its doors in 2017, the Elbphilharmonie began to experience unprecedented demand for tickets to shows. This level of demand lead to unacceptable latency issues being experienced by customers accessing the ticket portal, resulting in ticketing issues and a negative user experience.

Accentf(x)

Accentf(x), a performance marketing and customer data analytics company based in Louisville, Kentucky, with 32 employees, required a load balancing solution to eliminate periods of costly downtime

Unified Government of Kansas City

A lack of in-house expertise with load balancing technology led the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City to seek a partner who could ensure a best practice installation of loa

First Citizens

The continued growth of the First Citizens Group across the Caribbean brought with it a growing demand for their critical customer support functions handling over 80,000 calls per month on average, resulting in the need to replace their legacy hardware with a more versatile and cost effective virtual load balancing solution.

L’Aquila

Ecobyte, authorized Kemp partner, carried out the project for the healthcare authority in the earthquake sensitive area of Abruzzo in Southern ItalyThe local healthcare authority (L'Aziend

Cloudx Services

As CloudX Services began scaling their business across multiple servers, they experienced unacceptable levels of downtime with their DNS load balancing solution leading to a negative user experience and an increase in support calls.

Harris County District Attorney's Office

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office required an intelligent load balancing solution with Geographic Server Load Balancing (GSLB) functionality, to provide high availability for its mission critical applications and multi-resiliency across its production and disaster recovery site in the event of a critical resource failure.

Clark University

As Clark University experienced continued growth in their user network and the adoption of virtualization gathered pace, they required a reliable, easy to manage and cost-effective virtual load balancing solution that could ensure critical applications were kept highly available with minimal disruption to the application experience being delivered to end users.

Hutchison Ports EIT

Hutchison Ports EIT had a number of critical internal applications that contributed to the efficient operation of the port. As they began to standardize their applications, they required an intelligent and easy to use load balancing solution that could ensure 24/7 High Availability with minimal disruption to services during an outage.

Keepmoat

Keepmoat chose Always On VPN as part of a companywide upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise and required a load balancing solution to eliminate any single point failure in the Always On VPN architecture and to avoid any disruption to the application experience provided to their mobile workers.

GovDataHosting

IT-CNP, a cloud solutions company, provides its GovDataHosting services to assure the functionality, availability and efficiency of the cloud-based applications of government agencies. They realized that the older load balancers their cloud application support depended on, would soon be completely unusable.

ASOS

ASOS was moving the substantial infrastructure on which its web store was based to cloud, which would allow them to more easily provide access to customers around the world. This web store was the core of their business, so it was absolutely vital that they had the load balancing infrastructure to assure constant uptime at even the busiest periods.

MidCoast Council

Three councils merged into one larger organization using five data centres, private and public clouds. Network Load Balancing within Windows Server infrastructure struggled to cope with peak traffic demand. Rolling out Skype for Business would compound these problems. Existing Citrix NetScaler no longer met reverse proxy requirements.

Now IT

Microsoft network load balancing and Linux-based load balancing unable to share information with Amazon Web Service’s relational database, or access Microsoft Exchange.

AACPS

AACPS serves over 95,000 users with a wide range of internally developed and publicly available business-critical apps. It needs a load balancing solution that can provide high availability and security in a dynamic environment for their apps, including but not limited to Exchange, Pearson Financial Accounting, CGI Benefits and SharePoint.

Ster-Kinekor Theatres

Cinema company SterKinekor was losing business due to their website being unable to handle massive traffic surges from blockbuster movie audiences. The front-end of their website was being load balanced by Nginx. They needed to find a new load balancing solution for their website.

Manufacturing and Services Company

A multinational manufacturer needed load balancing services such as Single Sign On for their business-critical apps serving 9,000+ employees. Their data centers are co-located and needed geographic or global server load balancing. The company required a flexible pricing model to match their varying throughputs.

Dell ECS

Dell's ECS customer is a leading pharmaceutical company with a global research organization. They need to store large amounts of data indefinitely and with an automatic user enabled archive which is why they opted for Dell’s ECS solution. Dell requires a load balancing solution is validated and optimized by Dell EMC.

ImageTrend, Inc.

ImageTrend had used Microsoft ARR for load balancing but needed greater security and reliability for its customers’ applications and domains. It also sought a better maintained product with fewer unknowns.

TDC

TDC, the largest telecommunications company in Denmark, aims to provide subscribers of its ‘Cloud Solutions’ service with reliable, smooth access to various online services to support their business needs. Skype for Business is the primary service in the Cloud Solutions suite, meaning it was vital to overcome any challenges in making it always available and always high-performing.

Dell

The Dell Technologies Demo Center needed to be secure from application layer attacks and available at all times to all staff, customers and partners throughout the globe.

Wowrack

Wowrack, a managed cloud service provider with data centers across various countries, wanted to enhance the performance and security for the applications hosted in its infrastructure and cloud services to offer better service to its customers. A key challenge was to centrally manage the application delivery infrastructure in order to plan, deploy, monitor, and report on the performance, utilisation and security of its applications.

Unitel

Unitel’s SIRE, the online electronic credit refill system must be online 24/7 for customers to maintain their mobile phone connectivity. Any significant latency or outage will cause significant customer disruptions and a competitive disadvantage. Unitel was also interested in adding geographic load balancing as part of the upgrade.