KEMP Technologies Develops Lowest Power Consuming Load Balancer on the Market
Energy efficient VIA Eden processor makes the “green” load balancer ultra-low power
Bethpage, N.Y. – September 11, 2007 – KEMP Technologies, a leading provider of affordable server load balancing and SSL acceleration solutions, today announced a collaboration project with VIA Technologies, Inc. to create an environmentally friendly appliance by upgrading the LoadMaster 1500 with a new VIA Eden processor. The new version of the KEMP product has an industry leading ultra-low power consumption of 0.2 Amps – significantly increasing the efficiency for all users’ data centers while maintaining a cost effective price point.
KEMP responded to the need from its small to medium sized business (SMB) data center and hosting customers to significantly lower the power consumption, to in-turn decrease the cost of operations. Seizing on this opportunity, KEMP now successfully meets this need while ensuring that performance is never forfeited. The VIA Eden processor enables the LoadMaster 1500 appliance to be completely convection cooled, which helps in drastically improving the users overall efficiency.
“KEMP Technologies’ high performance load balancer is an excellent example of an innovative appliance that benefits from the x86 performance and low power draw of our VIA processor family,” said Epan Wu, deputy director of CPU product marketing at VIA Technologies, Inc. “We look forward to continuing our successful relationship with KEMP, and helping them generate additional high-quality components to its line of load balancers.”
“The VIA Eden processor enables KEMP to offer world class features within a low thermal envelope while maintaining the affordable price our customers have come to expect from us,” said Kevin Mahon, CEO and president of KEMP Technologies. “The SMB customers can now have an energy efficient, green product for their data centers. The LoadMaster 1500 is currently the only load balancer in the world designed for ultra-low power consumption.”
In addition to the low power, KEMP also made its LoadMaster 1500 environmentally friendly. The appliance is fully RoHS compliant or “green” under the 2002/95/EU directive.
About KEMP Technologies
KEMP Technologies is paving the way for small and medium Internet transaction-based businesses to take advantage of the sophisticated load balancing software required to insure consistency and high availability to online customers. KEMP Technologies provides load balancing software and SSL acceleration appliances that fit the needs of small and medium sized business (SMB) without requiring a fully-staffed IT department to decipher overly sophisticated and complicated software.
About VIA Technologies
VIA Technologies, Inc. (TSE 2388) is the foremost fabless supplier of market-leading core logic chipsets, low power x86 processors, advanced connectivity, multimedia and networking silicon, and complete platform solutions that are driving system innovation in the PC and embedded markets. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, VIA's global network links the high tech centers of the US, Europe and Asia, and its customer base includes the world's top OEMs, motherboard vendors and system integrators. www.via.com.tw
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.