Case Study: Kent County Council achieves scalable, high-performance virtual application delivery with KEMP Technologies

Kent County Council goes virtual with the help of Kemp

Kent County Council is virtualizing its desktop and application infrastructure to deliver Windows applications to some 6,500 users across 200 business units and 300 sites, consolidating support for over 300 applications. To meet requirements for high availability, scalability and performance while reducing physical desktops and costs, Kent County Council worked with Phoenix Software and selected KEMP Technologies’ LoadMaster (LMOS for Cisco UCS) and KEMP GEO Multi‑Site load balancers to integrate natively with the chosen Cisco UCS and VMware Horizon View/Workspace platform.

KEMP Technologies deployed LoadMaster on Cisco UCS in two active/active datacentres with dual high‑availability GEO Multi‑Site load balancers, providing Layer 4–7 load balancing, SSL offload, caching/compression and security features such as pre‑auth and SSO. The solution reduced latency by running natively in the UCS fabric, removed the need for external hardware ADCs, and has so far been rolled out to 150 users with a full migration planned—delivering improved application performance and availability, a scalable platform for future growth, and freeing the council from supporting thousands of desktop PCs.

Kent County Council

Glen Larkin

Lead Technical Architect