BOSTON – November 12, 2024, 2024 – Leostream Corporation, creator of the world-leading Leostream® Remote Desktop Access Platform, today announced support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments and a KubeVirt API integration that allows any Kubernetes-based container solution to become a VDI hosting platform.
OpenShift is a practical alternative to VMware vSphere as more organizations look to move away from Broadcom’s virtualization portfolio. As the only native solution for building VDI deployments using OpenShift, the Leostream Platform provides another option for customers or MSPs who are looking to deploy VDI outside of a traditional vSphere installation, especially those already using Red Hat in their infrastructures. An additional advantage for organizations considering OpenShift as a replacement for a VDI environment running on vSphere will find that OpenShift can use their existing storage.
The KubeVirt technology leveraged by Red Hat OpenShift allows VM-based workloads to run on a container platform, resulting in an open, shared environment for running both containers and VMs. The Leostream Connection Broker leverages the KubeVirt API to integrate with container platforms to inventory, power control, and provision full virtual machines and provides the end-user access portal to these machines. With Leostream’s KubeVirt integration, any Kubernetes-based container solution, including OpenShift, can become a VDI hosting platform.
OpenShift environments can use pools in the Leostream Platform to automate the creation, termination, and changes to power state of virtual machines hosted in OpenShift. Leostream offers flexible access control rules and policies to ensure the correct level of access, capacity management and audit-level tracking, pooling, and sharing for OpenShift virtualized resources. End users can access their applications and data from nearly any device, from nearly anywhere, using nearly any display protocol, including high-performance protocols for graphics-intense applications.
“OpenShift is a powerful option for organizations that are moving to containers and want a single infrastructure platform to support containers and VMs, and the Leostream Platform extends that versatility by adding VDI deployment to its long list of benefits,” said Karen Gondoly, Leostream CEO. “Combining remote desktop access, virtualization, and containers creates a modern, flexible, efficient, environment that is able to meet even complex computing needs.”
The Red Hat OpenShift container platform is the successor to Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), which Red Hat will cease supporting in 2026. Leostream’s OpenShift support is a migration and expansion of its RHV support that continues providing Red Hat customers with a VDI management tool and remote desktop platform for use with Red Hat hosting.
Leostream’s OpenShift support is now in preview and is expected to be generally available by year end.
The Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform for hosted desktops and workstations offers a comprehensive solution for remote access to maintain productivity, control costs, and ensure security with strict authentication and authorization built on zero-trust concepts. Its connection management system eliminates clunky corporate VPNs with an ultra-efficient gateway that gives users access to only the specific resources they have permission to use, automatically, regardless of their location or device. The Leostream Platform shines even in environments that rely on complex, specialty applications like energy and science; large files such as media and entertainment; real-time performance like financial services; and bulletproof network security like government and defense.
About Leostream
The Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform embodies over 20 years of Leostream research and development in supporting customers with hosted desktop environments, including VDI, hybrid cloud, and high-performance display protocols. It provides the world’s most robust desktop connection management and remote access feature set, allowing today’s enterprises to choose the best-of-breed components to satisfy their complex security, cost, and flexibility needs while working with them as they evolve into tomorrow. Follow Leostream on LinkedIn and X.
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