Leostream Tip Sheet: The Top 5 Considerations to Address Before Deploying a Large-Scale VDI
Your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) needs to be robust, highly resistant to failure, and flexible enough to meet individual user needs, but there are a host of other questions that need to be addressed in order to ensure a successful VDI rollout. This short guide provides a series of questions related to five areas important for VDI deployment planning including: heterogeneous systems, viewer protocols, authentication and directory services, desktop control, and policies. Download the tip sheet here.
451 Group Impact Report: Leostream's Connection Broker v6.0 scales to full Citrix VDI
The 451 Take: "Connection brokers are nearly a commodity these days, since all of the major desktop virtualization vendors already have their own brokering components. Leostream's independent, hypervisor-agnostic product fits well in 'edge cases,' or in datacenters that use multiple virtualization platforms. The company makes the case that all datacenters are, in fact, edge cases, and that its vendor-neutral approach works for everyone. We tend to agree, especially given the current economic downturn, which is curbing, but not halting, overall enterprise IT spending. Investing in an independent connection broker that binds early, exploratory and multivendor VDI projects together means IT departments won't have to bankroll a total datacenter overhaul." Download the 451 Group report here.
451 Group Impact Report: Leostream Remains a Lion Among Connection Brokers
Rachel Chalmers, Research Director for Infrastructure Management at the 451 Group recently initiated coverage of Leostream and the Connection Broker with a 451 Impact Report in which she says Leostream is "designed to harness your legacy investments in a lightweight, nonintrusive way. Leostream's open approach should work with what customers have, harnessing (for example) their in-place authentication, load balancing and provisioning tools.
For these reasons, and - significantly - because it's been around long enough to prove it can scale, Leostream is emerging as the broker of choice for cautious, canny customers who need to futureproof their virtual desktop infrastructure." Download the 451 Group report here.
Butler Group Technology Assessment - Leostream Connection Broker 6.0
Leostream Connection Broker 6.0 is a virtual appliance for managing the connections between client devices and back-end systems hosting virtual desktops. It provides centralised resource provisioning, policy creation, management, and enforcement capabilities and supports various clients, virtualisation platforms, hardware platforms, and remote viewing protocols. Leostream Connection Broker has been designed to integrate easily into existing IT environments and provides out-of-the-box support for various IT systems such as Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Networks (SSL VPNs), authentication servers, and directory servers. The product enables centralised management of end-user computing resources, via role-based access to a management console, and importantly aims to provide a seamless end-user experience. Leostream's target market is horizontal, although most of the company's customers belong to highly regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and government. Butler Group believes that Leostream has a solution that is well suited to its target market and is particularly applicable to organisations with heterogeneous multi-vendor, multi-technology virtual environments. Download the Butler Group report here.
