We’re often asked (by customers and sales people) how the different VDI Connection Brokers co mpare to eachother. One of my colleagues (Ken Davidson) & I have created a Connection Broker Comparison Document that attempts to provide an honest comparison of VMware VDM 2.1, XenDesktop 2.0 and Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite 5.10. We’re interested in feedback from the community to make sure that we’re accurately portraying the feature set of our competitors, so please let us know if there are corrections to be made. We also know that there are many other connection brokers on the market, and new ones seem to pop-up every couple of months. Others of note are Leostream, 2X, Ericom, Qumranet, Panologic, [insert any number of other vendors here]… Our document was created to compare Provision Networks vs the competition, as defined by the customers we visit. If I start getting lots of requests for information on another vendor, I’ll consider expanding the document.
Virtual Desktop (VDI) Connection Broker Comparison Document
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May 26th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
[...] Quest Software compares Connection Brokers (Provision, VMware, Cirix) May 26, 2008 Posted by channelvirtualization in Uncategorized. Tags: VDM2, Virtual Access Suite, XenDesktop trackback Patrick Rouse at Provision Networks (part of Quest) has created a connection broker comparison. Indeed, they have compared their product against VMware VDM2 and Citrix XenDesktop. The report and comments can be found here. [...]
May 31st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Virtualization Short Take #9…
More links and commentary from the virtualization world!…
June 4th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
[...] Addition Channelvirtualization - 04-06-08 ♦ In an interview by David Marshall with Leostrems’ CTO David Crosbie, Leostream confirmed that the P2V product will be under support for a long time, yet the company will focus a 100% on the connection broker. Furthermore a new release of the broker will be available in Q4. The goal of Leostream is clear, become the number one independent connection broker company. Actually their idea is not that bad, 98% of companies run on multiple vendor-platforms, so one connection broker providing access to these is possibly big business. Currently the Leostream connection broker has not yet shown up in any of the comparitives such as that one of Quest. [...]
June 8th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I have updated the document to reflect the features of VDM 2.1 and Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite 5.10.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Any plans to add Leostream to the comparison?