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Kemp Technologies vs SKUDONET
Choosing the right ADC platform is critical. We want you to have the best information possible to do so.
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Kemp Technologies
Kemp LoadMaster is transforming application delivery and security, providing cloud-native, virtual and hardware-based load balancers for full resilience.
SKUDONET
SKUDONET® began its public release in October 2010, and we have not stopped refining security, scalability, and high availability technology ever since.
Strengths & Weaknesses: Kemp Technologies & SKUDONET
See how SKUDONET and Kemp LoadMaster compare across some of the most critical ADC capabilities.
Kemp Technology’s Strengths
- Kemp offers flexible deployment and strong feature set, pricing and consumption models which reduce costs.
- Is gaining increased visibility in the market and offers a price/feature mix that is well aligned.
- Offers a free virtual LoadMaster version supported by community that clients can download and use.
- Was the first commercial ADC vendor to deeply integrate its products within Microsoft Azure.
SKUDONET’s Strengths
- Disruptive vision with a stable growth as challengers in the ADC market, with an agile team and engaged community.
- Innovation driven with Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud).
- Very high cost-effective solutions without limitation products and services, suitable for both midsize organizations and large enterprises.
- Investment in R&D to deliver a technology driven by easiness, performance and security.
- Is a complete ADC (Application Delivery Controller) that could manage all kinds of network protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP, …) but also with a combination of all of them simultaneously and multiport capabilities; and it’s not oriented to licensed features.
- Its operating system is fully optimized for networking so it is capable to move in layer 7 more than 140 thousand concurrent users and in layer 4 more than 10 million concurrent users with only 2 dedicated cores.
- Ability to create configuration backups, easy cluster configuration, automatic replication from one node to another and stateful cluster with real time sessions replications that permits a failover between nodes without losing any connection.
- Provides an integrated IPDS security system with real time black hole lists, DoS protection, black/white listing and protection of the most common network attacks.
- Provides a very UX graphic interface for both operators and network engineers in Angular 2 technology.
- Automation capabilities thanks to it’s fully programmable REST+JSON API.
Kemp Technology’s Weaknesses
- Kemp offers flexible deployment and strong feature set, pricing and consumption models which reduce costs.
- Is gaining increased visibility in the market and offers a price/feature mix that is well aligned.
- Offers a free virtual LoadMaster version supported by community that clients can download and use.
- Was the first commercial ADC vendor to deeply integrate its products within Microsoft Azure.
SKUDONET’s Weaknesses
- Young brand as an open source company and yet to develop a big influence than other more established vendors.
- Needs to develop a broader partnership network.
*Summarised from the latest Gartner ADC report.
BENEFITS
Proud to be open, Open for being easier
We do not believe in limitations per core, memory or throughput. Our ADC solution performs with the maximum resources available.
We research and develop open high technology to gather the best performance, scalability and high availability.
We design user experience and automated interfaces to make application reliability technology easy.
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Related Article
Migrating from Kemp LoadMaster to SKUDONET ADC
Let us scale multi-dimensional enterprise-grade systems while maintaining high availability with SKUDONET ADC. This means no benchmark limitations on memory, CPU cores, or throughput.
You might have noticed these limitations hindering your network from scaling if you are considering other alternatives besides Kemp. SKUDONET Community and Enterprise editions are designed to scale regardless of the deployment platform, whether hardware, Virtual environments, cloud infrastructure, or bare metal.
This article will discuss setting up an instance of SKUDONET’s load balancer based on Kemp LoadMaster configurations.
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