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Simple, secure access to all your compute resources

 

In a distributed organization, daily workflow can be greatly improved by giving everyone in your enterprise the ability to tap into a variety of compute assets from anywhere within your organization. Mechdyne's Connection Portal lets you do all that, and more.

 

Connection Portal's ubiquitous access allows everyone in your organization to connect to pooled blades, desk-side workstations, meeting rooms, and collaborative work sessions from one easy to access web interface-quickly, easily and securely.

 

Benefits

• Users can locate and access a whole bank of compute resources, giving them the power and flexibility to utilize the best tools for the task
• Computers no longer need to be located in meeting rooms, reducing noise, heat and idle cycles in those busy locations
• Users can access their own specific technical compute resources and datasets from remote locations, for more streamlined and enhanced knowledge sharing
• Maximize the ROI for your compute assets by creating pools that maximize utilization
•  Users can share their desktops or meeting room screens wherever they are, making collaboration easy and much more effective
• Simplify management of computers by centralizing them in one data-center, for less maintenance issues and reduced total cost of ownership.

 

View "A Day in the Life of a Connection Portal User" to learn how Connection Portal could be used to improve and simplify the daily workflows in your organization.

 

Features

• Web-based interface for end-users and administrators
• Live inventory of compute resources (installed applications and hardware)
• Powerful search engine; software and hardware criteria to locate available assets
• Session monitoring and reporting; orphaned sessions and utilization over time are all captured and reported
• Instant remote desktop session brokering; once a computer has been found, a single click opens a session
• Collaboration requests that locate a user by name and send a collaboration request to share their screen

 

Specifications

Server-side

• J2EE application package (typically hosted on JBoss)
• JDBC Database back-end (MySQL. Oracle, MS SQL available upon request)
• Server can be delivered as a ready-to-instantiate virtual machine
• Operating system support: RHEL and Windows Server

Receiver-side (end-user)

• No software installed on client
• Flex (Flash run-time) interface inside a web-page
• Operating system support: Windows (XP, Vista, 7; x86 and 64), Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Fedora)

Sender-side (compute assets)

• Operating system support: Windows (XP, Vista, 7; x86 and 64), Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Fedora)
• Local daemon for heart-beat, session monitoring, inventory

Supported protocols

• HP RGS
• Microsoft RDP 
• Audio/video switching equipment: DVI and fiber switches.
• Others available upon request

 

Contact Mechdyne today for more information about Connection Portal.