NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 04/11/13 — today announced it has attained Gold Communications competency demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft customers- evolving needs in today-s dynamic business environment and distinguishing itself within the top 1 percent of the Microsoft partner ecosystem.
To earn a Microsoft gold competency, partners must successfully complete exams (resulting in Microsoft Certified Professionals) to prove their level of technology expertise, and then designate these certified professionals uniquely to one Microsoft competency, ensuring a certain level of staffing capacity. They also must submit customer references that demonstrate successful projects (along with implementing a yearly customer satisfaction study), meet a revenue commitment (for most gold competencies), and pass technology and/or sales assessments.
KEMP has a long history of partnering with Microsoft to deliver load balancing and application delivery solutions optimized for Microsoft workloads including Lync Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Remote Desktop, ADFS and others. KEMP-s s are universally recognized for offering robust performance, a comprehensive feature set and ease of deployment.
Becoming Microsoft Communications certified means KEMP customers will be provided with the highest level of support from best-in-class technical experts. Gold status is known as the pinnacle of Microsoft certification and is held only by elite Microsoft partners. KEMP continues to go above and beyond customer expectations by supporting them with Microsoft communications solutions that can be integrated into their business strategy.
Tim Quinn, Director of Strategic Partnerships, KEMP Technologies
“We are extremely pleased that KEMP has attained the status of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. It not only reinforces our commitment to integrating Microsoft communications solutions into our expanding line of products and services but it demonstrates KEMP-s expertise to offer the high availability, high performance ADC solutions our customers are looking for.”
Jon Roskill, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp.
“By achieving a gold competency, partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology. These partners have a deep expertise that puts them in the top 1 percent of our partner ecosystem, and their proficiency will help customers drive innovative solutions on the latest Microsoft technology.”
KEMP Technologies is the #1 price/performance load balancer and application delivery controller, used by thousands of businesses who consider IT, e-commerce, web and business applications as mission-critical to their long-term success. KEMP helps companies rapidly grow their business by providing 24/7 infrastructure availability, better web performance and secure operations — while streamlining IT costs.
KEMP-s LoadMaster products include , content switching, server persistence, SSL offload/acceleration, and application front-end capabilities (caching, compression, intrusion prevention system), plus one full year of product support — delivering industry leading price/performance.
The company is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit , or call at +1 631-345-5292.
Application delivery solutions are known as application delivery controllers (ADC), server load balancers (SLB), application front-end devices (AFE), web switches, content switches and application switches.
Lynda Starr
Vantage Communications for KEMP Technologies
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David Finkelstein
Director of Worldwide Marketing
KEMP Technologies
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