Ensure Continuous Operation and Protect Against Desktop Computing Outages
It’s a given that businesses routinely create disaster recovery plans that focus on servers in the data center; after all, the data center houses the data that are the transactional lifeblood of any company. Often overlooked, but just as critical, is disaster recovery planning for the client computing infrastructure: the desktops and laptops that allow your workforce to get the job done, day in and day out.
What happens when your workers can’t access their machines? Your business operations can become crippled or completely non-functional. And it doesn’t necessarily take a natural disaster or catastrophic event to trigger disruption. More routine events, like bad weather or power outages, are the more likely culprits and can cause significant disruption.
Thorough disaster recovery planning should include strategies for the desktop as well as the data center so that your business can continue to operate even when the unexpected occurs.
Virtual desktops are an ideal way to mitigate the risk that comes with a client computing infrastructure that sits on the “edges” of the network. When data, applications, and custom configurations sit on the end user’s desk these are as good as lost if physical access to that location is cut off – for any reason.
Placing desktops on a virtual machine in the data center improves this situation dramatically, but only if your connection management software allows you to set up policies for locations, users, and machines that support disaster recovery scenarios.
The Leostream Connection Broker facilitates disaster recovery for your entire client computing infrastructure. It features comprehensive, granular, role-based pooling and policies and other features that allow:
- Flexible pool definition based on a wide range of attributes
- Optimal policy customization and flexibility based on authentication (AD) attributes and client location
- Seamless integration with High Availability (HA) features found in the major virtualization platforms.
- Simple back-up and replication of the Connection Broker database
- Ensures the same user experience when a data center fails over to the DR site
The Connection Broker is deployed in desktop disaster recovery implementations for major multi-national financial services institutions as well as customers from a range of industries.
