Avid Qualifies the Leostream Connection Broker to Manage Avid Media Composer Virtual Machines

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Feb 08, 2018, 09:00 ET


WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Today, Leostream announced that Avid, makers of Avid Media Composer, has qualified the Leostream Connection Broker to manage Avid Media Composer virtual machines, thereby enabling IT administrators to offer users cloud-hosted instances of Avid Media Composer across a range of hypervisors and cloud platforms.

Avid Media Composer is the leading creative editorial software, embraced by the top movie, television, and broadcast editors. In a recent whitepaper, Leostream outlined how the media and entertainment industry has embraced hosted application as an ideal solution for collaboration and remote access.

"At Leostream, we are proud to be qualified by Avid to manage Avid Media Composer virtual machines in environments that employ single or multiple hypervisor solutions, such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, or in a public cloud environment, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform," remarked Leostream CEO Karen Gondoly.

"We believe providing the management tools IT professionals and system administrators need to offer power users cloud-hosted graphics-intense applications, such as Avid Media Composer, is the logical next step in the enterprise cloud movement. Moreover, by enabling single-pane-of-glass hybrid cloud management with our industry-leading Leostream Connection Broker, it has never been easier for Avid Media Composer administrators to employ a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud virtual environment."

Managing Avid Media Composer virtual machines with Leostream allows customers to –

  •      Create pools of available VM resources
  •      Terminate cloud-hosted instances when users log out
  •      Manage the power state of VMs and user access
  •      Maintain user access logs and monitor which VMs are used by which users
  •      Maintain usage statistics for pools of machines
  •      Provision new VMware virtual machine pools from templates or as linked clones from snapshots, or build pools of cloud-hosted machines from images available in the cloud platforms
  •      Manage user roles and session control levels

Find more information on how Leostream can help Avid Media Composer customers with their hosted application solution in the Avid Media Composer Virtual Environment with VMWare Best Practices Guide.  For more information on Leostream Connection Broker licensing, please contact [email protected] or request a free trial. 

Media Contact: Jamie Sullivan, Leostream, 788-927-0178, [email protected]

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