Resource provisioning, monitoring, and optimization – these topics are all very relevant to any hosted desktop initiative. Especially if you’re rolling out a large-scale deployment with several moving parts. When designing your hosted or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), sooner or later you’ll need to decide how to assign resources to end users and manage their...Read More
What do s’mores and VDI have in common? Perhaps more than you would expect. A new article, featured in Virtual Strategy Magazine, examines the trend towards the shrinking datacenter through the eyes of a former pastry chef (our CEO). The story is about having your cake and eating it too by deconstructing the VDI environment. Have a read!Read More
Earlier this week, Karen Gondoly, the CEO of Leostream, shared her take on four ways to host graphically demanding applications in the datacenter. The article, which was published in IT Infra World’s most recent magazine on data center infrastructure, covers everything from traditional approaches like hosting workstations with dedicated hardware to cutting edge solutions like...Read More
In the ever-changing desktop virtualization space, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) may be the best thing since sliced bread. HCI is an evolution of converged systems, but instead of buying a chassis with a variety of hardware for different infrastructure functions, the compute, storage networking, and virtualization resources are squished into a single box with a software-centric...Read More
Upfront cost and complexity are two common stumbling blocks that get in the way of VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) adoption. We’re on a mission to minimize these hurdles by helping organizations leverage open source software as an alternative to running desktops on dedicated hardware in the datacenter. As a pioneer in the evolving desktop virtualization...Read More
If your company is like most, you’re no longer satisfied keeping all of your workloads in your own data center. Instead, you look for the best place to host each workload, based on cost and capabilities, whether you’re hosting productivity applications, database servers, or virtual desktops.Read More
At Leostream, we are excited to announce that Avid, makers of Avid Media Composer, has qualified the Leostream Connection Broker to manage Avid Media Composer virtual machines.Read More
We’ve been busy here at Leostream, and somehow January is already coming to a close. With the falling snow reminding me that winter is in full swing, it seems like a good time to reflect on what I see in store for the Cloud-Hosted Desktop and Application Market for the remaining eleven months of 2018....Read More
The chatter around the public cloud is that it’s finally transformed into a real, viable solutions for enterprise compute resources. So, what does that mean for the investment you’ve already made in your data center? Thankfully, it means good things, as the IT world zeros in on the hybrid cloud as a happy medium between...Read More
As we approach the end of the holiday season and the beginning of the new year, the team at Leostream took some time to eat, drink, and be merry. More importantly, to reflect on what a productive year 2017 has been and to look forward to all new and exciting developments that 2018 is sure...Read More
