KEMP Technologies Accelerates Website Efficiency for K-12 Schools and Universities

October 7, 2008; 08:24 AM

Yaphank, N.Y. – October 7, 2008 – KEMP Technologies, a leading provider of affordable server load balancers and application delivery controllers, today announced continued success with universities and K-12 schools choosing KEMP products to deliver secure and reliable web access to students and faculty. Educational institutions looking for affordable solutions are selecting KEMP’s LoadMaster devices to meet the challenges of expanding delivery of web-based services, including securing applications, and managing servers to eliminate slow or lost connections.

The Holland Christian School system educates over 2,000 students each school year. Today, 15 online services are offered via a secure log-in, including Wikis, Blogs, school schedules, grades and other services. “KEMP’s LoadMasters have allowed us to secure all services running on our website for students, faculty and parents,” said Jim Peterson, Technology Coordinator of Holland Christian Schools. “We’ve been able to offer our students new online services as they start the school year due to our KEMP load balancers. The KEMP load balancers simplify any concerns about secure SSL, and make our website load balancing much easier and quicker to manage.”

KEMP’s LoadMaster products help eliminate traffic surges, server bottlenecks, connectivity disconnects and site downtime. This helps schools align their server infrastructure and application operations with continuity requirements to ensure applications are always available. KEMP’s LoadMaster enables them to maintain operations and services even in the face of a disruptive event.

Northcentral University offers 100% distance learning to students, which creates challenges in managing their web infrastructure. “We have been using the KEMP LoadMaster’s for load balancing all the University’s web traffic, as well as assisting with performing other administration and testing procedures on our servers,” said Jerry McArthur, Systems Manager of Northcentral University.  “Since the first day we installed the devices, KEMP’s products have proven to be a very reliable workhorse for us. We have a lot of web traffic and almost 10,000 users to satisfy. It’s critical for us to have an application delivery controller in place that we know is reliable and doing everything we require without any issues.”

“We are seeing continued growth in this market for both K-12 and higher education to provide web-based solutions that ease access, and facilitate student and faculty administrative tasks,” said Kevin Mahon, CEO of KEMP Technologies. “This follows our recent announcement of Infinite Campus choosing KEMP’s load balancers as part of its hosted education management system for K-12 educators.”

# # #

About Northcentral University

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Prescott Valley, Arizona, Northcentral University (www.ncu.edu) is a private, 100% online institution serving students worldwide. NCU offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees as well as certificates of advanced graduate studies in business and technology management, education, and psychology. NCU is regionally accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Chicago.

About KEMP Technologies

KEMP Technologies is a leader in affordable server load balancer appliances and application delivery controllers tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical applications. KEMP helps SMBs 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.

The company is headquartered in Yaphank, New York, with offices in Hannover, Germany. For more information, visit www.KEMPtechnologies.com, or call us at 631-345-5292.

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.