Kemp Technologies
American technology company
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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.
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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 |
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
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.