Dell‘s decision to stop developing and selling new vWorkspace licenses, a detailed explanation about what a connection broker is and how to manage virtual desktops lifecycle were the most read topics in our blog for the last weeks.
Find below the links to the articles dealing with these topics so that you don’t miss the chance to keep up to date with the most outstanding news about virtualization and Open Source according to our community:
EMC introduced yesterday at EMC World 2016 the following new datacenter products and services:
EMC Unity family of storage is the new all-flash array, ideal for small and medium-size IT deployments. It sets the new standard for simplicity, affordability and flexibility. It is available in all-flash, hybrid, converged and software-defined configurations and is designed to help customers make an affordable and simple transition from disk to flash.
A few days ago we explained what exactly a connection broker is, but many of you will be wondering what it is mainly used for. One of the most common uses is desktop virtualization, in fact many solutions in the market only highlight or feature this functionality.
Apart from provisioning and managing virtual desktops, a connection broker can enable the administration and centralized management of users access to any other remote desktop service, like virtualized applications, IP phones, IP cameras, shared resources… Some of the most comprehensive ones integrate with different cloud services, even enable access to physical PCs and e-Learning platforms.
UDS Enterprise is a multiplatform connection broker which goes one step further, since it manages both access and lifecycle of virtual and physical desktops, applications and any remote desktop service, ensuring top performance, flexibility and scalability.
With UDS Enterprise we can access our services via web from basically any operating system, like Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Android… It also makes it possible to virtualize different versions and distributions of Windows and Linux desktops, such as Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2008, Windows 2012, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian distros, CentOS, openSUSE ….
A connection broker is a software element which connects users and resources. These resources usually are hosted in a datacenter and they can be either virtual or physical. The datacenter can be located inside the organization offices, in cloud or in a mixed environment and it can be private or rented.
From the broker administration dashboard we can define what virtual or physical resources are provided to each of our users or groups of users, for how long and with what kind of privileges.
