What is a connection broker for?

What is a connection broker for?

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: the ultimate connection broker

UDS Enterprise: the ultimate connection broker

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 ….

What is a connection broker?

What is a connection broker?

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.

Work from home & VDI should go hand in hand: support

Work from home & VDI should go hand in hand: support

In previous posts we talked about the advantages of desktop virtualization for organizations supporting remote employees. In addition to software licenses management and security, technical support is another improved service thanks to VDI.

If employees working from home don’t use virtual desktops, the help desk staff don’t know what operating systems, programs or applications each user has intalled in his computer.

Dell stops selling vWorkspace licenses

Dell stops selling vWorkspace licenses

Dell has decided to stop developing vWorkspace VDI software, which was acquired a few years ago, in 2012.

The company explained they will continue offering support and updates to their current clients and they will also be able to expand their environments, but they will stop selling licenses to new customers and they won’t release any new vWorkspace version.

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