Leostream, founded in 2002, is a
privately held
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...
technology company based in
Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, ...
. Its flagship product is a
connection broker
In software engineering, a connection broker is a resource manager that manages a pool of connections to connection-based resources such as databases or remote desktop
In computing, the term remote desktop refers to a software- or operating s ...
for
virtual desktop
In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP (computing), WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physica ...
infrastructure (VDI) and resources hosted in the
datacenter
A data center (American English) or data centre (British English)See spelling differences. is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommuni ...
.
Software
Leostream develops a vendor-neutral connection broker, which is software that maps end users to computing resources, such as desktops, that are hosted in a data center. A connection broker integrates end-user access points, including thin clients, laptops and Web browsers, with back-end systems hosting desktops and applications. It also integrates all other data center systems required for a virtual desktop infrastructure, including security, authentication, and load balancing systems.
The Leostream Connection Broker provides a single interface to manage a range of operating systems, physical and virtual desktops, and display protocols commonly found in enterprise environments.
Delivered as a virtual appliance, the Leostream Connection Broker supports the major hypervisors, including those provided by
VMware
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software ru ...
®,
Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies. C ...
®,
Red Hat®, and
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation, multinational technology company, technology corporation producing Software, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at th ...
®. Leostream supports both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems in the datacenter. In addition, the Leostream Connection Broker is optimized for OpenStack® powered clouds and is a partner in the HPE Helion OpenStack program and is SUSE OpenStack Certified.
Once installed, the broker is used to add desktop and application resources, define authentication servers, build pools and plans, and configure client and end-user policies. For purely physical environments, the Leostream Connection Broker is packaged as an ISO that can be installed on certain hardware.
Leostream supports over ten display protocols, including
Teradici
Teradici Corporation was a privately held software company founded in 2004, which was acquired by HP Inc. in October 2021.
Teradici initially developed a protocol (PCoIP) for compressing and decompressing images and sound when remotely accessin ...
PCoIP,
HP RGS
HP ZCentral Remote Boost, formerly known as HP Remote Graphics Software or HP RGS is a client-server remote desktop software developed by HP Inc. and initially launched in 2003. HP RGS enables remote access to high-performance workstations (or ...
, and
OpenText
OpenText Corporation (also written ''opentext'') is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software.
OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's fourth-largest software company ...
Exceed onDemand, which are tailored for systems running graphic-intense applications.
The Leostream Connection Broker is also used to deliver cloud/hybrid deployments and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) with desktops hosted on
AWS
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide di ...
,
Azure
Azure may refer to:
Colour
* Azure (color), a hue of blue
** Azure (heraldry)
** Shades of azure, shades and variations
Arts and media
* ''Azure'' (Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer album), 1987
* Azure (Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell album), 2013
* ...
or OpenStack clouds.
[The Virtualization Practice, "Leostream - One Broker to Rule them All", 26 June 2015, https://www.virtualizationpractice.com/leostream-one-broker-rule-33345/]
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Companies based in Massachusetts