Leostream Solutions for Software Development
For software development and IT consulting firms, lowering costs and shortening development times are critical factors for success. Many firms turn to outsourcing and offshoring to reduce costs, but must manage the complexity introduced by long-distance collaboration. These organizations need the flexibility to locate (and relocate) remote access systems for dispersed teams, provide appropriate levels of access and security to development and test systems, and ensure that these environments are isolated, responsive, and customized to meet the needs of individual developers and testers. Technology help desk and customer service departments have similar requirements, and need to provide support staff with multiple environments so bugs and issues can be reproduced in the exact environment the customer is using.
The Leostream Connection Broker provides a virtual desktop solution that enables secure, flexible, configurable access to centralized development and test environments. With Leostream, contractors can interact seamlessly with hosted development environments without ever directly accessing these resources. In addition, Connection Broker policies are customizable to enable desktops to be assigned based on developer role – allowing precise user and machine configuration, such as the assignment of multiple desktops for members of a software development team. Plus, Leostream’s vendor-independent, comprehensive protocol support, and tight integration with DNS and load balancers, allows organizations to implement distributed desktops systems that meet a range of performance and cost requirements.
With Leostream, software developers, systems integrators, and IT consultancies benefit from:
- Secure, flexible remote access: Provides hardware- and location-independent access to hosted development environments.
- Improved collaboration for offshore engineering teams: Policy-controlled access provides the right resources to the right users for the right duration.
- Rapid implementation and efficient management: Centrally monitors and controls user activity in hosted development and test environments.
- On-demand access: Provides true location-independence and high-performance over long-distance connections.
- High availability: Ensures a scalable, resilient, and “always-on” solution, mitigating the risk of developer downtime.
