A screenshot from the online demo of the LM-Exchange product's interface
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Load balancing technology developer KEMP Technologies (www.kemptechnologies.com) said on Tuesday that its new LoadMaster Exchange product is the first server load balancing appliance designed specifically for Microsoft Exchange 2010 implementations.
The new product – which joins a long line of existing KEMP load balancing gear – is designed to address the high-availability and scalability demands of Microsoft Exchange 2010 deployments for businesses with up to 250 users.
The company says all its existing load balancing and application delivery controller products are approved by Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2010 qualification program for hardware and software load balancers, the LM-Exchange is purpose built for the communication and collaboration platform.
“For the smaller business that may not be familiar with load balancing technology, ease-of-use and speed of deployment was our top priority in the design and development of this product,” says Peter Melerud, vice president of product management at KEMP, quoted in the announcement. “For the vast majority of smaller enterprises, which will consolidate the primary Exchange 2010 server roles onto a pair of servers, the LM-Exchange can be deployed in less than five minutes, providing instant redundancy and high-availability for client access server and other critical Exchange 2010 services.”
KEMP says the LM-Exchange is available now, and its price of $1,590 includes first-year hardware maintenance and support.
The device supports up to 13 virtual services and six physical servers. It comes preconfigured for most commonly deployed Exchange 2010 server roles, says KEMP, and is designed to support Outlook Web Access, Outlook Anywhere and ActiveSync, out of the box.
It will support distribution of Exchange 2010 traffic load across up to six servers, CAS server affinity, SSL offload and application and server hardware health checking with automatic failover.
A full (PDF) data sheet on the new appliance is available for download from the KEMP website.
In January, the comapny announced the launch of its LoadMaster 2600 and 3600 platforms.
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