If you use OpenStack as part of your Managed Service Provider solution you will be happy to learn that the Leostream Platform functions as the sole pane of glass for your tenant management. When setting up OpenStack tenants in the connection broker we recommend adding each tenant as its own center. The connection broker will...Read More

If you have a Leostream environment that’s assigning and connecting users to physical machines in your data center, setting up your Leostream Connection Broker for a cloud migration is easy. The first thing to do is to add your cloud provider to the “Centers” tab of your broker. This informs the broker to query the...Read More

Leostream supports RDP, PCoIP and all of the protocols listed below including multiple protocols in a single environment. Microsoft RDP – Default option for connecting task workers to Windows HP ZCentral Remote Boost – License included with HP ZCentral workstations; good performance and collaboration support; Tunable Mechdyne TGX – Good for graphic-intense workloads; supports collaboration...Read More

What is BlueKeep? Well, the vulnerability isn’t yet publicly disclosed so it’s not exactly clear what the issue is. CVE-2019-0708 explains that there is the potential for unauthenticated remote code execution with no user interaction required. Using a carefully crafted exploit an attacker could “install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts...Read More

The Leostream 9.0 release modernizes our Connection Broker web interface. As part of that, we made it possible to completely customize and internationalize the look and feel of your Leostream Web browser Login screen. Read on to learn how   Internationalization, AKA, changing the text on the Sign in form. Let’s start with the easiest...Read More

Remember Mickey in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice when he is tasked to carry heavy buckets of water to fill up the Sorcerer’s pool? Mickey is exhausted and dismayed – until he discovers the Sorcerer’s wand and learns about the magic of automation! He enchants a broom to do the heavy lifting for him. Mickey sits back...Read More

Welcome to the latest Leostream Blog Series: Can’t Fix What Isn’t Brokered (please forgive the bad puns, we can’t help ourselves). In this blog series, we’ll be covering our most frequently encountered use cases, and how the Leostream Connection Broker streamlines user workflows for nearly any VDI environment. With 15 years’ experience in the VDI...Read More

Virtual and hosted workstations are the wave of the future, enabling a new group of users to reap the benefits and flexibility of traditional RDS and VDI. The key to a successful virtual workstation deployment is a connection broker that allows you to connect users, control access, and optimize workstation usage and to include a display protocol...Read More

Leostream partners NVIDIA released a webinar this past week discussing “What’s New with NVIDIA vGPU Solutions October 2018.” At Leostream, we are particularly excited about the NVIDIA vGPU advances, as they are the missing puzzle piece for one of the most underserved markets in the VDI space – Media and Entertainment. Historically, VDI and hosted...Read More

Topics tend to come into Leostream Support in waves. The latest stream of questions center around managing multiple simultaneous connections to a Linux machine running a VNC server. This allows several users to share one Linux machine while giving each user an independent session, similar to Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. In this blog post, we show you...Read More