At Leostream, our technology partnerships demonstrate the success we’ve had creating real-world VDI solutions for our customers. From our position as the leading independent connection broker, we engage fully with our partners to create joint solutions that make the promise of VDI a reality.
We’re focused on the Connection Broker: brokering is all we do. And since we sit at the heart of any VDI project, we have to do it well. Working with our partners, we turn our customers’ initiatives into robust, enterprise-scale, production-proven VDI deployments.
If you are interested in becoming a Leostream technology partner, please contact partners@leostream.com.
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Leostream is a certified VMware Technology Alliance Partner. The Connection Broker is a virtual appliance for VMware® ESX, ESXi, and Server. Leostream works with VMware as the connection broker for truly heterogeneous integrations, facilitating the incorporation of a wide range of technologies into VDI projects, including Citrix® XenServer™, XenApp™, Novell® eDirectory™, OpenLDAP™, Sun Ray, and two-factor authentication with smart cards and biometrics. In addition, Leostream provides granular policies, robust scaling to thousands of desktops, and global redirection for VDI. For a complete overview of Leostream Connection Broker functionality, please view our product features. |
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Leostream is a Citrix Ready Certified Partner. The Leostream Connection Broker is an independent connection broker for Citrix environments. The Connection Broker installs in Citrix XenServer 5.0, enabling the incorporation of XenServer and XenApp into VDI. Leostream works with Citrix XenServer as the connection broker for truly heterogeneous integrations, facilitating the incorporation of a wide range of technologies for virtualized desktops deployments, including VMware, Novell eDirectory, OpenLDAP, Sun Ray, and multi-factor authentication. In addition, Leostream's XenApp integration allows hosted applications to be delivered alongside hosted desktops and terminal server sessions. |
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The Leostream Connection Broker and Leostream Agent work with the Microsoft® Hyper-V™ hypervisor to assign Hyper-V machines within a virtual desktop environment. |
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Leostream is the connection broker partner for the IBM® Virtual Client Solution, which features fully-functioning desktops and applications virtualized and served from the data center using highly reliable, fault-tolerant IBM System x™ or IBM BladeCenter® blade servers and thin clients. End users can access virtualized desktops remotely from any PC or thin client on the network, enjoying true mobility, while businesses can enhance data protection and improve control over end-user computing. In addition to the VCS solution offerings, IBM bundles the Leostream Connection Broker with the HC10 Workstation Blades to provide a robust and flexible connection broker "out-of-the-box" for deployment with the HC10/CP20 pairing as well as a wide range of other infrastructure combinations. The Connection Broker supports both the Teradici™ PC-over-IP® protocol for high-performance virtual workstations and RDP for virtual workstations requiring standard performance. Details about implementing the IBM BladeCenter HC10 with Leostream can be found here. |
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Leostream has partnered with Sun to offer a flexible and complementary connection broker offering for Sun's comprehensive virtualization solutions. The Leostream Connection Broker supports the Sun Appliance Link Protocol™ (ALP) technology, enabling the integration of Sun Ray DTUs and SRSS servers into heterogeneous virtual desktop deployments. Connection Broker redirection optimizes geographically dispersed deployments by ensuring the efficient ALP protocol is used for crossing long, high-latency network links. The Connection Broker also provides seamless integration with directory services and dynamic routing of users. In addition, Leostream is a value-added Connection Broker for the Sun xVM/VirtualBox™ hypervisor. |
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Leostream has partnered with HP to provide a flexible, value-added connection broker offering that is complementary to HP® Session Allocation Manager (SAM) and is well-suited to the dynamic session allocation requirements of HP's Standard and Enterprise VDI solutions. Leostream manages the assignment of end-user connections to desktop sessions running on hardware (workstation or PC blades) in a data center for a wide range of deployment scenarios. For HP CCI deployments requiring the protocols beyond RDP or HP RGS, a wide range of infrastructure elements, or advanced policies, the Leostream Connection Broker provides a comprehensive full-featured solution. |
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Wyse works closely with Leostream and the Leostream Connection Broker to deliver the richest experience for Wyse® thin client and mobile thin client users while offering IT the needed security and management of the users' infrastructure. |
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IGEL and Leostream have partnered to include the Leostream Client as a part of the firmware for the IGEL® thin clients. |
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The NoMachine NX protocol provides the benefit of realtime connections to the virtual Linux environment, while the Leostream Connection Broker provides the centralized connection management layer needed to deliver computing resources to end users. With Leostream and NoMachine NX together, Linux-based desktops can be seamlessly integrated into a mixed or heterogeneous Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. |
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The entire Praim by CompuMaster Thin Client product line includes support for the Leostream Connection Broker, offering full compatibility with any VDI architecture. |
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Astec and Leostream have partnered to include the Leostream Client as a part of the Linux and Windows XPe firmware for Astec Thin Clients. |
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10ZiG is a Leostream partner offering the Leostream Connection Broker on their line of VDI Ready CE.Net, Linux and XPe Thin Clients. |
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The Leostream Connection Broker integrates Cranberry thin clients into a VDI deployment using Microsoft Windows® XPe. |
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Leostream and Devon IT have partnered to include the Devon IT Leostream Client as a part of Devon IT's thin client operating system, DeTOS. Working in conjunction with a Leostream Connection Broker, the Devon IT Leostream Client software enables users to connect to their virtual desktops from the Devon IT thin client terminal. |
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Leostream provides connection broker solutions for Fujitsu-Siemens virtualization offerings. |
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eG Innovations' virtualization monitoring software, the eG VM Monitor™, a part of the eG Enterprise Suite, has been enhanced with specialized monitoring capabilities for the Leostream Connection Broker software. With this integration, organizations deploying virtual desktop environments have a comprehensive solution to establish, monitor, and report performance baselines for end-user virtual desktop access to enterprise applications. |
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Leostream has partnered with Juniper Networks to provide security solutions for VPN gateways integrated into VDI. Leostream interoperates with all Juniper Networks® gateways to create secure channels between the data center and the end-user client device. This enables secure, encrypted delivery of desktops and other end-user resources to thin clients, repurposed "fat" clients, or Web browsers. |
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Leostream has partnered with SafeNet to provide integrated two-factor client authentication security solutions for Hosted Desktops. The solution leverages the USB-based SafeNet iKey Authentication Token to build a strong authentication infrastructure. |
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Leostream has partnered with Teradici to incorporate support for the Teradici PC-over-IP protocol into the Leostream Connection Broker. This provides a seamless, highly scalable solution for virtual desktop power users who require enhanced remote viewer and graphics capabilities. In addition, the Connection Broker integrates tightly with the IBM HC10/CP20 Workstation Blade / Workstation Connection Device to deliver an outstanding remote bladed workstation experience with the conveneince of single sign on. |
