Today’s small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) are undergoing the same IT evolution as their enterprise counterparts, only on a smaller scale. For SMBs, website reliability, flexible scalability, performance and ease of management are as essential to SMB website infrastructure as they are to an enterprise. It’s fare to say that these capabilities are an important operational imperative for businesses of all sizes.
A Guide to Application
delivery Optimization and
Server Load Balancing for
the SMB Market
Introduction products within the same category can provide the optimal performance, features Today's small-to-medium sized businesses and reliability that SMBs require, with the (SMB) are undergoing the same IT evolution same benefits - at a lower cost. as their enterprise counterparts, only on a smaller scale. For SMBs, website reliability, For the enterprise market, best-of-breed flexible scalability, performance and ease of comes with a high Total Cost of Ownership management are as essential to SMB (TCO), since deploying products from website infrastructure as they are to an various manufacturers requires additional enterprise. It's fare to say that these training, maintenance and support. KEMP capabilities are an important operational can help SMBs lower their TCO, and help imperative for businesses of all sizes. SMBs them build reliable, high performance and can gain efficiencies and competitive scalable web and application infrastructure. advantages by adopting appropriate KEMP products have a high networking technologies. However, without price/performance value for SMBs. Our the proper systems in place, they will suffer products are purpose-built for SMB from poor performance and they will be businesses for dramatically less than the competitively disadvantaged. For this price of "big name" ADC and SLB vendors reason, choosing the appropriate application who are developing features that enterprise delivery controllers and server load customers might use. balancing products is critical to ensuring efficient and effective website infrastructure Proven solutions for cost-to meet today's needs, while ensuring the effective, reliable application right upgrade path for tomorrow's business delivery and server load balancing requirements. Other vendors offer application delivery SMB application delivery and controllers and server load balancers, but server load balancing needs KEMP products have the best price/performance value as determined by Until recently, even basic server load rich features, scalability, high-availability, balancing was cost prohibitive for SMBs. performance and ease of management - at Today, advanced application delivery a cost-effective price to meet the needs of controllers and intelligent load balancers are small- to-medium size businesses. not only affordable, but the consolidation of Layer 4-7 load balancing and content Web applications switching, and server offload capabilities Up until the last few years, businesses such as SSL, data caching and compression typically had separate systems and services provides SMBs with cost-effective out-of- to communicate and transact business with the-box infrastructure. customers, partners and employees. Now, For enterprise organizations (companies through the ubiquitous acceptance and with 1,000 or more employees), integrating accessibility of the Internet, the real power of best-of-breed network infrastructure is networking is being utilized. Traditional commonplace. However, for SMBs, best-of- applications such as order processing, breed does not equate with deploying billing and customer management have networks with enterprise-specific features been integrated into complete supply-chain and expensive products, but rather, web applications. These new web deploying products that are purpose-built, applications now unify and streamline with the explicit features, performance, business processes from previously reliability and scalability created specifically monolithic client/server business for the SMB market. applications. This is good news for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB), as web-In general, businesses of all sizes are based applications offer the potential to inclined to purchase "big brand" products. reduce the need for expensive hardware, However, smaller vendors that offer
2 A Guide to Application delivery Optimization and Server Load Balancing for the SMB Market White Paper
reduce time-to-market and lower unlimited IT budget for servers, systems, maintenance costs. bandwidth and personnel to manage and monitor your website infrastructure, you It's no cakewalk might be ok, but for virtually all organizations, that is unreasonable. Many organizations that deploy web-based applications face a myriad of challenges - from initial dep... [download for more]
