The document introduces Kemp's total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator, which allows users to compare the licensing costs of Kemp's metered licensing model against perpetual and competitive licensing models. It provides three common application usage scenarios - peak usage, steady growth, and on-demand - to model licensing costs over time. The TCO calculator aims to give users insight into their estimated licensing costs for their application infrastructure based on factors like required application delivery controller (ADC) capacity and quantity, traffic growth rates, and usage peaks.

1. Kemp TCO Calculator
Total cost of ownership calculator

2. Customers have been traditionally
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3. Kemp has disrupted
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consumption-based
metered licensing that
decouples the cost per-
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4. The Kemp TCO calculator compares
metered, perpetual and competitive load
balancing/ADC licensing.
Users can assess the number and capacity
range of load balancers needed to support
their application infrastructure, providing
them with insight on estimated TCO.

5. This calculator provides application delivery TCO insight based on three
common application usage patterns:
Peak Usage
Steady Growth
On-demand

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Overview

7. This scenario reflects the traffic profile of organizations that have busy periods
where traffic levels are significantly above normal.
Metering of traffic is ideal for this scenario as it avoids the over-provisioning
cost associated with perpetual licenses.

8. Your Capacity Requirements
ADC instances typically are sized on
throughput capacity.
Specify the capacity and quantity ADCs
you require for your application
infrastructure.

9. Provide number of ADC usage
peaks that you typically have in
a year along with the
percentage above normal
capacity that these peaks
require.
Scenario Inputs

12. For scenarios where traffic increases lineally over time, this model sizes requirements
based on the growth rate entered and the capacity required in month 36 of the three-
year model.

13. ADC instances typically are
sized on throughput capacity.
Specify the capacity and
quantity ADCs you require for
your application infrastructure.
Your Capacity Requirements

14. Specify the % for your scenario
over three years.
Usage will be calculated to this
rate to the capacity required.
Scenario Requirements

17. With this on-off scenario, the calculator models usage based on a requirement to go
from zero to the capacity defined.
The model uses the on-demand peak provided and the frequency to calculate usage.

18. ADC instances typically are
sized on throughput capacity.
Specify the capacity and
quantity ADCs you require for
your application infrastructure.
Your Capacity Requirements

19. Specify the number of annual
events expected where ADC
usage is required.
This scenario assume that
outside of these events, there is
no requirement for the ADC
capacity.
Scenario Inputs

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