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2X
2X is a privately held company, with offices in Germany, UK, USA, Cyprus and Malta. Its Management team is backed by
years of experience in developing and selling network infrastructure software. It is a Microsoft, Novell ISV and IBM
partner.
Product Line
2X ThinClientServer for Windows and Linux: the solution for central deployment, configuration and management of
thin clients and user's connection settings
2X ApplicationServer for Terminal Services: tunnels any Windows application onto remote desktops and saves on
administration & support
2X LoadBalancer for Terminal Services: provides load balancing, increased security and redundancy for your
Terminal Servers
2X SecureRDP: a freeware product which increases the security of your servers.
Why use 2X Products for Server-Based Computing?
In modern IT environments, servers are often grouped together. The main reason for creating these groups is because they
all offer the exact same service. In Server Based Computing environments such a service could be hosting a specific
application or a specific desktop. Usually user requests to the service of a group are somehow distributed evenly over
the servers in that group. Often this distribution mechanism also provides some kind of fault tolerance.
In Server Based Computing environments this distribution mechanism is called Load Balancing or Load Management. The groups
are called 'Silos' or 'LMGs' (Load Managed Groups).
There are several vendors who have implemented load balancing in their products. A well-known hardware solution for load
balancing is F5 Network's Big IP. On the softer side, Citrix is particularly well-known for the Load Balancing capabilities
of their product Presentation Server (only available on 'advanced and enterprise' editions). Microsoft, with the
introduction of Windows Server 2003, included the possibility to load balance across Terminal Servers by using Microsoft
Network Load Balancing. In Microsoft Network Load Balancing, load calculations are based solely on network load.
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