New data optimization and security features provide additional functionality to company's LoadMaster product family.

KEMP Technologies, a provider of datacenter application delivery optimization for small-to-medium sized businesses, today announced new advanced caching, compression and intrusion prevention system (IPS) features for the complete line of LoadMaster Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and Server Load Balancers.

The company explains that its LoadMaster product family is affordable, yet feature-packed and as with all of its products, the caching, compression and IPS features are built-in at no additional cost. These new features continue its advancements into the ADC marketplace, adding to the already feature-rich capabilities that include Layers 4/7 load balancing, content switching, IP and Cookie persistence, integrated ASIC-based SSL acceleration, and full layer 7 support for Microsoft Windows Terminal Services. It continues to offer all of these enterprise-class features at a price point tailored for SMB businesses.

"From day one KEMP has been focused on the SMB market. We have a clear understanding of their business needs, and the IT requirements for managing their web and application infrastructure," states Kevin Mahon, president of KEMP. "Our main objective is to look at how we can continue to improve our product functionality, while maintaining the price/performance that SMB customers require."

"Just like large enterprises; small-to-medium sized businesses want to run websites that are highly-available, fast, and secure. But their budgets for technology deployments are often limited." notes Matthias Machowinski, Directing Analyst, for Enterprise Voice & Data at Infonetics Research. "KEMP's LoadMaster products allow SMBs to balance price and performance, by offering advanced features such as SSL offloading, and the new caching, compression and IPS features, at an affordable price point."

"KEMP is always improving their product line, continuously coming out with newer and better products," said Sam Sandusky, CEO of Big Sur Technologies, a KEMP value-added reseller. "That makes it easy for us to talk to our customers about their products. KEMP seems to have a solution for our customers to address their application delivery needs."