Leostream Solutions for Financial Services
Financial services institutions are adopting VDI to improve security, support regulatory compliance, provide organizational flexibility, and increase the up time of end-user desktops. And, many are looking for ways to take desktop virtualization further to integrate legacy systems, scale globally, implement advanced security, and meet the access needs of mobile end-users.
In order to capitalize on the benefits of VDI, financial services institutions need a solution that provides best-in-class flexibility, reliability, security, and availability. Downtime, from system failure or restructuring, is not an option.
Leostream provides all of the VDI functionality that financial services firms require, going beyond rudimentary VDI to provide an open and vendor-independent solution that truly meets financial services organizations’ needs: integration with legacy systems, advanced security systems requiring smart cards or biometrics, and integration of multiple vendor stacks.
Leostream also enables financial services organizations to implement business rules for VDI that will meet strict industry security and compliance requirements. The Leostream Connection Broker enables firms to scale globally providing the same excellent desktop experience to all end users, regardless of their location, and ensuring that users are granted secure access to the correct desktop resources when and where needed.
With Leostream, financial services organizations benefit from:
- Enhanced security: Supports strong, two-factor authentication via smart cards and biometrics:
- Smart cards for IGEL®, Wyse®, and Sun Ray™ thin clients
- Java™ smart cards used in conjunction with AET SafeSign Identity Client® software
- ACOS5 smart cards used in conjunction with bit4id Card Manager Admin software and readers
- Smart cards compatible with the IAS (Identification, Authentification et Signature) middleware (Pilote Carte IAS), jointly developed by Dictao and Gemalto
- CAC Cards used with the ActivIdentity® ActivClient™ security software
- SafeNet iKey 1000 USB two-factor authentication token
- DigitalPersona® Pro for Active Directory® fingerprint identity solution
- Enhanced compliance: Provides control over end-user resources with full monitoring and desktop logging.
- High availability: Removes the risk of workstation failure through failover and high availability.
- Business continuity: Tightly integrates with network infrastructure used for high availability.
- Plug-and-play integration: Incorporates any legacy or future system, including:
- Sun™ virtualization solutions – Sun Ray, SRSS, and Sun ALP™
- Novell® eDirectory™
- Standard and high-performance viewer protocols
- Streamlined business operations: Supports end-user virtualization requirements that emerge with mergers and acquisitions, internal restructuring, and bringing branch-offices on- and off-line.
- Global scaling: Centralize end-user resources for tens of thousands of globally dispersed end users.
- Support for mobile workforce: Broker policies and redirection ensures access to appropriate end-user resources.
- Cost savings: Provides policies to manage desktop sessions to optimize resource and power consumption, resulting in substantial cost savings.
