Top Marks for Kemp Technology at Kennet School

State-of-the-art Academy, Kennet School in Berkshire, has deployed a pair of Kemp LoadMaster 2200 server load balancing appliances across its new Microsoft Exchange 2010 messaging environment to optimise the performance and resilience of its email and virtual learning environment.

Designated as an Outstanding Academy in 2011 and the most over-subscribed school in West Berkshire, Kennet School has over 1,800 pupils and 300 staff.

Since moving to Academy status, the school wanted to migrate away from a legacy local authority email system that could be cumbersome and slow to provide a new in-house Microsoft Exchange 2010 platform. With the architecture changes in MS Exchange 2010, Kennet School realised that a load balancing solution would be required to get the best out of the system and deliver failover redundancy to ensure users continued to receive Exchange services even in the event of server failure.

Kemp Centre partner, System Professional, helped the school's IT team to migrate to the new environment and ensure high availability by installing the Kemp LoadMaster 2200 devices, certified by Microsoft for use with Exchange 2010.

Features such as Global Address Lists (GALs), Calendaring, Password Syncing and Delegated Access have improved communications and efficiency and the school's IT team plans to introduce more new Exchange applications for staff, confident that the Kemp load balancers will continue to provide high performance, site resilience and redundancy. In addition, Kennet School's interactive virtual learning environment - FROG - is now fully integrated with Exchange 2010 for use by all pupils.

“The Kemp load balancers were chosen for their ease of management, competitive pricing and overall product functionality," said Dan Haines, Network Engineer at Kennet School. “System Professional provided a valuable expert knowledge of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and the installation and setup was completed over a weekend ready for staff and pupils on the Monday morning.”

“As schools increasingly rely on sophisticated IT environments both for teaching and communications between, staff, pupils and parents, they simply can’t afford to have poor performance or down-time,” said Leigh Bradford, sales manager at Kemp Technologies. “While traditional load balancing solutions have been too expensive for schools to consider, our Kemp LoadMaster range starts at just over £1,500.00 for a hardware appliance and combines high performance with affordability.”

About Kemp Technologies

Kemp Technologies offers the #1 price/performance range of load balancers and application delivery controllers, used by thousands of businesses who consider IT, e-commerce, web and business applications as mission-critical to their long-term success. Kemp helps companies rapidly grow their businesses by providing 24/7 infrastructure availability, better web performance and secure operations – while streamlining IT costs. Kemp’s LoadMaster products include Layers 4-7 load balancing, content switching, server persistence, SSL offload/acceleration, and application front-end capabilities such as caching, compression and intrusion prevention system; delivering industry leading price/performance.

Application delivery solutions are known as application delivery controllers (ADC), server load balancers (SLB), application front-end devices (AFE), web switches, content switches and application switches.

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www.loadbalancerblog.com
Issued on behalf of Kemp Technologies by:
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While traditional load balancing solutions have been too expensive for schools to consider, our Kemp LoadMaster range starts at just over £1,500.00 for a hardware appliance and combines high performance with affordability.
Leigh Bradford
Sales manager at Kemp Technologies

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