Kemp Technologies
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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 1 November 2000[1] |
| Headquarters | 15 Wayside Rd, Suite 400, Burlington, MA, U.S. 01803 |
| Products | Cloud load balancing Application delivery controller Load balancing |
| Brands | LoadMaster, Loadmaster 360 |
| Owner | Progress Software |
| Website | kemptechnologies.com |
Kemp, Inc. is an American technology company that was founded in 2000 in Bethpage, New York.[2] The company builds load balancing products which balances user traffic between multiple application servers in a physical, virtual or cloud environment.
In 2010, Kemp opened a European headquarters in Limerick, Ireland.[3] Edison Ventures, Kennet Partners and ORIX Venture Finance invested $16 million into the company for research and development, sales and marketing in early 2012.[4] In April 2014, Kemp announced a further investment in its Limerick operations to expand from 30[5] positions to 80.
In 2019, Kemp was acquired by private equity firm Mill Point Capital.[6]
In November 2020, Kemp Technologies acquired Flowmon Networks for predictive network performance monitoring and network detection response.[7]
In November 2021, Kemp was acquired by Progress Software for $258 million.[8]
Business
[edit]Kemp is a software company that develops load balancing and application delivery software. Its products are built on a custom Linux operating system sold under the LoadMaster brand.
As of 2019, there were over 100,000 deployments of LoadMaster globally.[9]
The software enables customers to scale their operations by delivering applications using OSI layer 4 to 7 load balancing. LoadMaster is available as a hardware appliance as well as a software-based load balancer that is available as a virtualized appliance and in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
Notes
[edit]- ^ "KempTechnologies.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "EMA Radar for Application Delivery Controllers and Load Balancers: Q4 2011". Enterprise Management Associates. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ "Kemp Tech Announce Euro HQ in Limerick". Limerick Post. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ "Investors bet $16 million on growth in application delivery market". Network World. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ Newenham, Pamela (1 April 2014). "Kemp Technologies to create 50 new jobs in Limerick". Irish Times. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ Longwell, Ali. "Kemp Acquired by Private Equity Firm Mill Point Capital". SDx Central. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- ^ Hein, Daniel (6 November 2020). "Kemp Acquires Flowmon to Combine App Security and Network Monitoring". Best Network Monitoring Vendors, Software, Tools and Performance Solutions. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- ^ "Progress Completes Acquisition of Kemp". Progress. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ^ Gee, Mike. "US-based KEMP Technologies moves further into channel with partnering success story". ARN. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
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