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Leostream joins Canonical’s Charm partner programme

Ellen Arnold

on 21 September 2016

This article was last updated 7 years ago.


Leostream Corporation, a leading developer of hosted desktop connection management software, has joined the Charm partner programme to facilitate the deployment of virtual desktops on Ubuntu OpenStack. The partner program helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s model driven operations system, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling on any public or private cloud, as well as bare metal with just a click of a button. The Juju Charm Store has a rapidly growing number of charms available to DevOps teams, with hundreds of cloud-based applications available.

“OpenStack has long been a solution for controlling large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources and has recently turned heads as a solution for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI),” comments Karen Gondoly CEO of Leostream. “As the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack, Ubuntu provides a reliable way to build out a manageable cloud.  By making the Leostream Connection Broker available from Canonical’s Charm store, DevOps teams have a fast path to delivering desktops and remote sessions in a cloud-based environment.”

A pioneer in the evolving desktop virtualization space, Leostream will be “charming” its flagship connection broker software, which has quickly become an essential tool for enterprise-grade OpenStack VDI.  Coined the “ultimate connection broker” and the “one broker to rule them all”, the software provides a single management console to integrate a variety of systems and platforms including physical and virtual infrastructures, Windows and Linux Operating Systems, and any number of high-performance display protocols.

To overcome the technical barriers of building and managing OpenStack VDI, Leostream configuration and setup is included in the Canonical BootStack solution. BootStack is an end-to-end service that includes the design, implementation, and ongoing management of an OpenStack cloud on Ubuntu. Combined with Leostream, organizations can get up and running with hosted desktops faster, easier, and in a more cost-predictable way.

“Together, Leostream and Canonical simplify the deployment and migration of virtual desktop workloads into an OpenStack cloud, eliminating legacy, expensive VDI stacks and providing cloud-based, on-demand desktops to users across an organization,” says Stefan Johansson, Global Software Alliances Director, Canonical’s Cloud Division. “We are excited to welcome Leostream to our catalogue to accelerate the adoption of OpenStack VDI.”

The Leostream Connection Broker will be available directly from the Charm store in the fall of 2016. In the meantime, the latest version of the connection broker is available for download from the: Leostream website. For more information on Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme, go to http://partners.ubuntu.com/programmes/charm.

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