<s>
Kemp	O
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
was	O
founded	O
in	O
2000	O
in	O
Bethpage	O
,	O
New	O
York	O
and	O
operates	O
in	O
the	O
application	B-Protocol
delivery	I-Protocol
controller	I-Protocol
industry	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
builds	O
load	B-Application
balancing	I-Application
products	O
which	O
balances	O
user	O
traffic	O
between	O
multiple	O
application	O
servers	O
in	O
a	O
physical	O
,	O
virtual	O
or	O
cloud	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kemp	O
was	O
recognized	O
as	O
a	O
Visionary	O
in	O
the	O
2015	O
Gartner	O
Magic	O
Quadrant	O
for	O
Application	B-Protocol
Delivery	I-Protocol
controllers	I-Protocol
and	O
again	O
in	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kemp	O
is	O
a	O
software	O
company	O
that	O
develops	O
load	B-Application
balancing	I-Application
and	O
application	O
delivery	O
software	O
built	O
on	O
a	O
bespoke	O
Linux	O
operating	O
system	O
which	O
is	O
sold	O
under	O
the	O
LoadMaster	O
brand	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
enables	O
customers	O
to	O
scale	O
their	O
operations	O
by	O
delivering	O
applications	O
in	O
a	O
highly	O
available	O
manner	O
with	O
layer	O
4	O
to	O
7	O
load	B-Application
balancing	I-Application
,	O
enhanced	O
performance	O
,	O
and	O
greater	O
security	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LoadMaster	O
is	O
available	O
as	O
a	O
hardware	O
appliance	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
a	O
software-based	O
load	B-Application
balancer	I-Application
that	O
is	O
available	O
as	O
a	O
virtualized	O
appliance	O
and	O
in	O
the	O
cloud	O
including	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
Amazon	B-Application
AWS	I-Application
,	O
and	O
other	O
private	O
clouds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kemp	O
's	O
main	O
product	O
,	O
the	O
LoadMaster	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
load	B-Application
balancer	I-Application
built	O
on	O
its	O
own	O
proprietary	O
software	O
platform	O
called	O
LMOS	O
,	O
that	O
enables	O
it	O
to	O
run	O
on	O
almost	O
any	O
platform	O
:	O
As	O
a	O
Kemp	O
LoadMaster	O
appliance	O
,	O
a	O
Virtual	O
LoadMaster	O
(	O
VLM	O
)	O
deployed	O
on	O
Hyper-V	O
,	O
VMware	O
,	O
on	O
bare	O
metal	O
or	O
in	O
the	O
public	O
cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KEMP	O
is	O
available	O
in	O
Azure	O
,	O
where	O
it	O
is	O
in	O
the	O
top	O
15	O
deployed	O
applications	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
in	O
AWS	B-Application
and	O
VMware	B-General_Concept
vCloud	I-General_Concept
Air	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kemp	O
's	O
DNS	O
based	O
Global	O
Site	O
Load	B-Application
Balancer	I-Application
(	O
GSLB	B-Application
)	O
enables	O
customers	O
to	O
provide	O
availability	O
,	O
scaling	O
and	O
resilience	O
for	O
applications	O
that	O
are	O
geographically	O
distributed	O
,	O
including	O
data	O
center	O
environments	O
,	O
private	O
clouds	O
,	O
multi-public	O
cloud	O
environments	O
such	O
as	O
Azure	O
and	O
AWS	B-Application
as	O
well	O
as	O
hybrid	O
environments	O
where	O
applications	O
are	O
deployed	O
across	O
both	O
public	O
and	O
private	O
cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2014	O
,	O
Kemp	O
announced	O
availability	O
on	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
Cloud	O
platform	O
(	O
the	O
first	O
3rd	O
party	O
load	B-Application
balancer	I-Application
available	O
)	O
of	O
the	O
VLM	O
for	O
Azure	O
LoadMaster	O
,	O
a	O
virtual	O
load	B-Application
balancer	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2016	O
,	O
Kemp	O
launched	O
its	O
centralized	O
application	O
monitoring	O
and	O
reporting	O
product	O
,	O
called	O
Kemp	O
360	O
Central™	O
,	O
which	O
allows	O
network	O
and	O
application	O
administrators	O
to	O
view	O
the	O
state	O
of	O
different	O
load	B-Application
balancers	I-Application
or	O
application	B-Protocol
delivery	I-Protocol
controllers	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
product	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
connect	O
to	O
3rd	O
party	O
devices	O
like	O
F5	O
,	O
AWS	B-Application
ELB	O
,	O
NGINX	O
,	O
and	O
HAProxy	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2015	O
,	O
Kemp	O
launched	O
a	O
free	O
version	O
of	O
LoadMaster	O
software	O
called	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
a	O
fully	O
featured	O
load	B-Application
balancer	I-Application
that	O
shares	O
most	O
of	O
the	O
commercial	O
product	O
's	O
features	O
,	O
including	O
full	O
layer	O
4	O
to	O
layer	O
7	O
load	B-Application
balancing	I-Application
,	O
reverse	O
proxy	O
,	O
web	O
content	O
caching	O
and	O
compression	O
,	O
a	O
non-commercial	O
WAF	O
(	O
Web	O
Application	O
Firewall	O
)	O
and	O
up	O
to	O
20Mbit/s	O
throughput	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kemp	O
announced	O
and	O
launched	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
first	O
software	O
defined	O
network	O
(	O
SDN	O
)	O
ready	O
adaptive	O
load	B-Application
balancer	I-Application
and	O
in	O
September	O
2014	O
,	O
Kemp	O
announced	O
it	O
was	O
joining	O
the	O
OpenDaylight	O
Open	O
Source	O
SDN	O
Project	O
.	O
</s>
