eG Innovations, a global provider of performance monitoring and triage solutions for both virtual and physical IT infrastructures, and Leostream™ Corporation (www.leostream.com), a leading developer of virtual hosted desktop software, announced today that they have established a technology partnership to leverage their combined strengths and define a new standard of performance and flexibility in the area of virtualized desktop computing.
Under the agreement, eG Innovations’ virtualization monitoring software, the eG VM MonitorTM, has been enhanced with specialized monitoring capabilities for the Leostream Connection Broker software. With this integration, organizations deploying virtual desktop environments have a comprehensive solution to establish, monitor, and report performance baselines for end-user virtual desktop access to enterprise applications.
“Effective monitoring and management is key to ensuring that virtual desktop infrastructures deliver availability and performance similar to conventional desktop infrastructures,” said Jack Hembrough, EVP sales and marketing for Leostream. “With many years of success in managing terminal services and other thin-client environments, eG Innovations is an ideal management partner for us. We plan to leverage our relationship with eG Innovations to deliver highly manageable, integrated virtual desktop solutions to our customers.”
“The Leostream Connection Broker is an elegant, cost-effective way to create and deliver desktops from the data center, and has enjoyed considerable market success,” said Srinivas Ramanathan, founder, president & CEO of eG Innovations. “The Leostream solution is flexible, scalable, robust and user-friendly, providing industry-leading technology that complements our own capabilities in the vitally important area of VDI integration.”
eG VM Monitor
Part of the eG Enterprise SuiteTM, the eG VM Monitor is a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing all aspects of virtual hosts and guests, whether the infrastructure is used to support server or desktop applications. Coupled with the ability of the eG Enterprise Suite to monitor over 80 applications eG VM Monitor – with its patent-pending In-N-Out MonitoringTM technology — provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for monitoring and managing the performance of virtual IT infrastructures. The eG VM Monitor won the Best of VMworld 2008 Gold award in the Application and Infrastructure Management category at the VMworld 2008 conference in September.
Leostream Connection Broker
The Leostream™ Connection Broker is an independent, flexible, cost-effective solution for regulating access to end user computing resources hosted in the data center. Leostream provides a comprehensive approach to desktop virtualization. The product enables organizations to manage end-user access to computing resources such as desktops, Terminal Server sessions, and streaming applications. It provides a scalable, fault-tolerant management layer that centralizes and consolidates IT resources in the data center and then creates, assigns, and delivers desktops to end users.
About eG Innovations
eG Innovations, Inc. (www.eginnovations.com) is a global provider of performance monitoring and triage solutions for both virtual and physical IT infrastructures. The company’s patented technologies provide proactive monitoring of every layer of every tier in the infrastructure, thereby enabling rapid diagnosis and recovery in enterprise and service provider networks. By ensuring high availability and optimum performance of mission-critical business services, eG Innovations’ solutions help enhance customers’ competitive positioning, lower operational costs and optimize the performance of their infrastructures.
About Leostream
Leostream (www.leostream.com) is a vendor-independent software company that has been a driver in the evolving virtualization space. With its Connection Broker product, Leostream provides a complete solution for organizations to manage the Hosted Desktop. The Leostream Connection Broker supports the integration of a wide range of clients, back-ends, and viewer, authentication, and security protocols. Leostream has hundreds of customers globally and an established reseller channel.
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