Early in the morning, red lights go off and the network administrator once again has to address the problem of a server in the throes of death. An onslaught of terminated connections assaults the web site as the admin desperately tries to bring things back online.

Although this type of thing happens to a lot of companies who experience explosive growth, for SkyVantage enough was enough. It was time to clean up the network and find a practical solution to end the bottlenecks, split packets, and terminated SSL transactions.

The Skyvantage Airline Management System is a series of real-time modules that assist airlines through every step of their business. With passenger reservations, dispatch, flight operations to manage, and ensuring airlines could respond properly to the United States Department of Homeland Security, SkyVantage could not afford downtime let alone decreases in network performance.

When it came to their network, SkyVantage took more than half a year to test various load balancers to ensure they were able to have the best network possible, they owed it to their customers.

SkyVantage tried several load balancers from companies such as Zeus and Netscaler, but did not find the best solution until the tested KEMP Technologies.

SkyVantage determined a series of requirements for their load balancers. They would have to have high-availability, load balance across multiple servers, SSL acceleration, and use Layer 7 content switching. Since network availability meant everything, price was no option. When all their tests were down they were surprised at the outcome.

“We were very surprised to learn that the solution we selected was available at such an affordable price,” said Cory Robin, CEO of SkyVantage. “The KEMP LoadMaster outperformed every other product we tested, and some of the products cost as much as 100 times more than the KEMP product. At first, we found it hard to believe that the product with the highest performance also had the lowest price tag.”

After installing two LoadMaster 1500 appliances, SkyVantage was able to solve their network problems and paid for themselves upon installation. KEMP’s hardware wasn’t the only thing that one praise this day however. “We deal with many vendors at SkyVantage, and the customer support we get from KEMP is incomparable,” added Robin.

You might say this sound too good to be true or that it must be some sort of marketing ploy, think again. The LoadMaster 1500 appliance is a phenomenal load balancer and I think the testimonies of happy customers speaks far better than any sort of backroom marketing campaign.

If you want more information about the KEMP Technology load balancers they will be hosting a live online webinar on November 6th at 1:30 PM EST. As soon as more information comes out on this event I will post it here.

Until then happy hosting and may your networks always give you 100% uptime.