One Broker to Rule them All! Connecting Hybrid Clouds with Leostream | Episode #58

Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

Anthony Spiteri

Tech News, News

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Leostream plays in the VDI space without being a VDI Company. They are all about unlocking the complexity of hybrid managed work.

In this episode I talk with Karen Gondoly. CEO at Leostream. Leostream is a driver in the evolving hybrid cloud space and a leader in the management of end-user resources hosted in the data center and cloud. The are the 'Ultimate Connection Broker' and evolved from the early days of Virtualization doing P2V and VMM management to now being 'The One Broker to Rule them All'! Karen and I talk about how their flagship Leostream platform provides a comprehensive and scalable solution for organizations to deliver and manage desktops, remote sessions, and applications hosted in a public cloud or a private data center. Leostream was founded in 2002 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, AWS, Azure, Google, Openstack, RDP, VDI, HTML5.

☑️ Raw Talking Points:

History and founding
Karen Background
History of VDI and why it's got a bad reputation
Play in the Space but not VDI
General state of VDI
How you can compete with VMware/Citrix
VMM to Broker
Early Years in Virtualization
Move to Public Clouds
Openstack/VMware/Public Clouds
Scaling and Automation/IaC
Provisioning of workloads
Verticles
PoC for Enterprise for scale
Partners and Resellers
Platform 4 components
Connection Broker
Agent
Connect
Gateway
Deployment Options? Marketplace
Emmy
Hybrid Cloud Approach

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0:00.0	Hey, is that an Emmy behind you? It is. Wow, okay. I didn't, I didn't know that. That's something to
0:07.4	talk about. I might actually definitely talk about that on the episode, that's for sure.
0:14.9	Hello and welcome to episode 58 of Great Things with Great Tech. The podcast,
0:20.1	highlighting companies doing great things with great technology.
0:23.5	In this episode, we're talking to a company who is on a mission to be the premier platform
0:27.9	for hosting IT assets, the matter where they live, remaining vendor neutral while solving
0:32.8	accessibility problems around complex business workloads.
0:37.1	That company is Leo Stream, and I'm talking to
0:39.7	Karen Gondoli, the CEO at Leostrom. Welcome to the show. Thank you, Anthony. I'm thrilled to be here,
0:46.7	50. It's my favorite number. So, there you go. Excellent. So look, just before we kick into the show
0:52.1	and talk about, you know, desktop and VDI and, you know, a topic which I don't think gets enough airplay these days, I just want to remind everyone that if you like great things with great tech, we'd like to feature in future episodes, you can click on the link on the show notes.
1:05.9	Go to gtwgt.com.
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1:20.4	an all good podcasting platform, Spotify, Anchor and Google. Right. With that, let's kick off Karen and talk about Leo stream. And, you know,
1:29.8	a company that's been around, it's, you know, nearly 20 years old, which is amazing in itself.
1:34.3	But I'm really interested in your background. So maybe give us a little bit of an intro about
1:38.4	yourself. And then we will come back to why there is an Emmy sitting behind you right now. So I'm fascinated by that,
1:46.8	but give a bit of intro into yourself. You've got to have the photo bomb of the Emmy in the background.
1:51.6	So again, my name's Karen Gondoli. I have a background in aerospace engineering, actually. So I went
1:58.2	to school at MIT and you see a little brass rat over there,
2:02.7	classroom. And then after getting out of school, actually my background's in control system
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