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We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest Leostream platform, including Connection Broker 9.0.36 and Leostream Gateway 2.0. This release includes several much-anticipated updates. Leostream expands its support for leveraging RADIUS servers to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for end-user logins. Updates to multi-factor …

The title of this post says it all. “Leostream to the rescue” was the literal subject of an email I received earlier today from a Solutions Provider who leverages Leostream for their Cloud-based VDI solution. Dewpoint assists their customers with design and implementation of virtual desktop …

Remote Access – It’s not a nice-to-have, anymore. Now, it’s a business continuity essential At Leostream, we build remote access solutions and we’ve been proudly doing so for over 15 years.  We’ve helped organizations across the globe keep their staff connected to the essential desktops, data, …

LEOSTREAM 9 USE CASES 1. Connecting users to graphics-intense applications  Who are these people? Engineers, architects, designers, video editors. Generally, highly educated users doing complex tasks. What Industries are they in? Oil and Gas, Semiconductor design, Media and Entertainment, Automotive, Aerospace, Defense What technologies do they …

A Decade of Leostream On my daily commute through the Boston traffic, every radio station I turn to seems to be discussing one “best of the decade” list or another. That got me thinking, “Does Leostream have a ‘best of’? How have we grown and changed …

If the Chrome “experiment” isn’t enough to convince enterprise IT it’s time to get really serious about Disaster Recovery, I don’t know what will. For those of you out of the loop, last week Chrome dev’s pushed out an “experiment” that primarily impacted users accessing Chrome …

Most large organizations use virtualization in at least some capacity, and over 50% of companies over 250 employees have deployed a full-scale VDI solution. The vast majority of these large-scale implementations are built on the full-stack legacy VDI model offered by the likes of VMware and …

As millennials hit their early parenting years, and Gen Z enters the workforce, corporate policies that promote work/life balance are a must-have for attracting and retaining top talent. In fact, in a recent survey, 73% of organizations now offer some type of work-from-home policy, so if …

Let’s say you’ve decided to venture down the path of VDI. Great! We fully support that decision! Now where do you begin? The answer to that question – as is typical for so many questions – is…it depends. What type of users are you trying to …

This blog post is a bit of a confession. Last week, I attended Red Hat Summit to watch one of Leostream’s customers talk about how they leverage NVIDIA GPUs in virtualized deployments with Red Hat’s infrastructure portfolio. (The session wasn’t recorded, but you can download the …

Some of us prefer Linux to Windows but want something with a modern user interface that doesn’t look like it’s something out of the ’90s. Given that you can download a seemingly infinite number of Linux distros, why do I find myself always coming back to …

Earlier this month, NVIDIA announced that Google will be the first cloud provider to offer NVIDIA t4 GPUs and RTX technology for virtual workstations. This is the latest in a string of recent upgrades to GCP as Google posies itself for battle in the enterprise cloud …

We were chatting with a potential customer in the Media & Entertainment industry when a lightbulb switched on in their head. After hearing what our Leostream platform is capable of he exclaimed, “Ah, so you’re a KVM matrix switch!” “Are we?”, I wondered, having never heard …

As we are just returning from an amazing week at SUSECON 2019, I’ve been thinking a lot about the conversations we had at our booth. One of the most frequently asked questions we get is “How does Leostream compare to VMware Horizon or Citrix XenDesktop?” It’s …

In March, in a blog post by their Chief Security Information Officer, Citrix notified the public about potential unauthorized access to their internal network. The FBI believes that the hackers used a technique known as “password spraying”, attempting to gain access by trying a few commonly …