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NoMachine Cloud Server Products

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NoMachine Cloud Server is your go-to solution for centralized remote access to hosted desktops and application servers residing on corporate networks. With Cloud Server products, your organization's computers stay safe behind the firewall while ensuring trusted users connecting from outside and inside the network get access to their data. The Cloud Server family sits at the pinnacle of the NoMachine product offering, enabling secure remote access and easy management of your entire corporate desktop infrastructure. It's the perfect solution for any business looking to provide a centralized and controlled point of access to distributed resources, running anywhere on the network, even across different geographic locations.
Not only does NoMachine Cloud Server unify access, it empowers administrators to create and manage a flexible and structured network hierarchy of "NoMachine nodes", consolidating the most extensive of hosted desktop and server infrastructures. Four out-of-the-box solutions are available which suit any remote computing scenario: Workgroup Cloud Server, Cloud Server, Enterprise Cloud Server and Enterprise Cloud Server Cluster, so you can choose according to your remote connectivity needs. Based on concurrent connections accessing the Cloud Server, the number of nodes that can be added to the gateway is always unlimited, across all the Cloud Server products. What counts is the number of users connected at any given time.

Connect a Global Workforce

Cloud Server lets you facilitate and streamline access to any computing resource in your company because it functions as the centralized access point by which remote users can connect to their desktops and data running on any physical or virtual machine. These machines can be NoMachine Enterprise Linux, Windows or Mac systems, located anywhere on your LAN or WAN. Simply add them as nodes to your Cloud Server to create your own "self-hosted" remote desktop service. Cloud Server, like all NoMachine products, works as a self-hosted remote access system, so without relying on external NoMachine backend servers. Users can connect to the Cloud Server using its IP address and simply select the desktop resource they need. Alternatively, create your own global remote access service by publishing your Cloud Server on NoMachine Network, the service that enables remote access to any computer without having to know its IP address. All Cloud Server products include full support for Network and by publishing your Cloud Server on Network, the desktop nodes you add to it are reachable by users from wherever they are.
The innovative guest desktop sharing lets users work together even without having to disclose their system credentials. That's true even more with visitor desktop sharing, another innovative and distinctive feature of the Cloud Server. Visitor users are just like guest users, but when coming from a Cloud Server where they performed a system login, they will be identified as the accounts they logged in with, so that the user accepting them will know "who they are". Guest users and visitor users were features carefully designed with security in mind. They give the Cloud Server invaluable flexibility, bringing remote desktop access to another level.

Scale Up and Out

Cloud Server products offer a truly cross-platform solution that combines the unprecedented remote desktop capabilities of NoMachine software with consolidation of physical and virtual resources scattered across corporate networks, allowing organizations to converge heterogeneous environments running on any platform. Completely scalable, since nodes are added as needed, administrators can centralize access to any number of NoMachine Enterprise Desktops and servers from the NoMachine Terminal Server range, including clustered Enterprise Terminal Servers. Additional Cloud Servers can even be added to Enterprise Cloud Server, for example, to create a multi-level, extensive and dependable network of hosted resources.
For load optimization and resilience, choose Enterprise Cloud Server Cluster. Its integrated clustering capabilities allow administrators to create a powerful, resilient and highly-available gateway with built-in load-balancing. Access through the gateway is guaranteed even in the event of system failure or downtime, delivering applications and desktops seamlessly and with minimal disruption. Whether it's a small number of users connecting to a shared desktop, an entire university faculty providing a gateway to its myriad of hosted resources or a large organization offering unified high-available access to complex VDI and server infrastructures, your choice of Cloud Server is the single pane of glass for all your NoMachine environments. Whichever product you choose from the Cloud Server portfolio, an intuitive navigation interface makes light work of remote configuration and management of your entire NoMachine infrastructure. It functions as a single point of visibility, so that IT administrators can conveniently add, remove, monitor and configure user access to NoMachine nodes as well as visualize a Cloud Server's hierarchy.

Secure and Flexible Access

Integrate any of the NoMachine Enterprise products with your Cloud Server and as your network of NoMachine desktops and resources grow, simply add them to your Cloud Server. Cloud Server resolves the problem of how to manage unified access to the myriad of desktop nodes and computers dispersed across your organization’s network without compromising security, performance and usability. In all communications, data transmission is always protected using NoMachine's NX end-to-end encryption with Public Key Cryptography provided by OpenSSL TLS/SSL regardless of how users connect. Remote connection requests are tunnelled to the appropriate desktop even when the nodes are behind a NAT or the Cloud Server host is in a DMZ. If one of the nodes is moved to a different network and changes IP address, thanks to NoMachine's 'inverse connection', nodes will stay connected to the Cloud Server. This also greatly facilitates scenarios where a desktop node can't be reached by the Cloud Server. Just add the node back to the Cloud Server from its new network.
Suitable for any network scenario, NoMachine Cloud Server products let you decide the setup that suits you best. A Cloud Server gateway can route users to NoMachine nodes according to specific network configurations, for example over a direct connection using a dedicated IP address. But it’s also possible to configure it to allow users to connect to nodes without the need for any network detail. This is done simply by publishing the computers or corporate desktops on NoMachine Network and adding them as nodes to your Cloud Server using the Machine Id that is assigned to each node. With Cloud Server and NoMachine Network combined, you can choose to broker connections to nodes that physically reside anywhere in the world, making the need for network details and router reconfiguration unnecessary. Users that connect over the Network service will require a NoMachine account and NoMachine Network Subscription, acquired separately. This can be used for logging in to the Cloud Server gateway, which can also be published on Network, as well as the nodes of the Cloud Server.

Built for a Hybrid Environment

With NoMachine Cloud Server products you can easily integrate multiple environments in a single integrated setup. Thanks to the Foreign X server functionality you can mix legacy Unix environments like Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX and BSD. Users can navigate the Cloud Server, select the Unix node they want to connect to and just double-click to get immediate access to their graphical applications without having to go into the complexity of the Unix command line. By installing Enterprise Cloud Server as your entry point, as a single server or in cluster, administrators can seamlessly converge remote access for corporate users to unlimited pools of Unix servers.

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Intuitive navigation interface

NoMachine Cloud Server products offer a complete navigation, configuration and management interface that is always accessible, even from remote. Navigate the entire Cloud Server infrastructure via a single pane of glass from wherever you are, even via the Web.

Build and configure your network

Give administrators the tools they need to build and deploy an entire network of NoMachine desktop nodes and server-based resources. Rapidly add, remove and configure NoMachine nodes as needed. In just a few clicks, access to remote resources can be configured according to your organization’s policies.

Add nodes using the inverse mode

If the Cloud Server cannot add a node because it’s unreachable, do it the other way round! From the node host, activate the inverse connection to the target Cloud Server. Useful for when a desktop node’s IP address changes often or the Cloud Server is in a DMZ.

Add your Network Nodes

It's also possible to add machines available on NoMachine Network to any Cloud Server. Simply publish your computers and corporate desktops on NoMachine Network and add them as nodes using the Machine Id that is assigned to each node.

Node tree visualization

Provide a coherent overview of a Cloud Server’s entire hierarchy. Visualizing the node tree conveniently shows all deployed resources, including any clustered secondary servers, what NoMachine licenses have been deployed as well as OS and hardware details.

Node insights and statistics

An easily accessible and comprehensive snapshot of the status of each node, its configuration, the number of connected users and connection statistics allows IT admin to keep tabs on a Cloud Server’s infrastructure.

Configure node authentication

When connecting to a node, you normally come logged in as on the Cloud Server. You just need to ensure that the account exists on that node. Or you can use a directory service, like Active Directory or LDAP. Or you can choose what we call "further authentication". The user you login with can be any user on the node machine, even a user that doesn't exist on the Cloud Server. All for maximum flexibility.

Put your Cloud Server in cluster

Achieve higher IT operational stability and session availability with Enterprise Cloud Server Cluster. Built-in failover mechanisms prevent disruption from server outages whilst distribution of session requests between the cluster pair maintains a load-balanced gateway.

Complete server administration

As all the NoMachine Enterprise products, the Cloud Server offers a full-featured administration interface, by which you can configure all the server settings, even from remote. Administer any of your NoMachine servers, by just a point-and-click wherever you are, via any NoMachine Player.

Web-based remote access

Let users connect to their desktop using a simple Web browser, thanks to the Web Player, to let them work from anywhere without installing additional software on their device.

VPN for security and privacy

Create a secure virtual tunnel using NoMachine's built-in VPN. With a NoMachine VPN connection, all data traveling between the NoMachine client and the Internet is encrypted and redirected through the remote node of the Cloud Server, so that you can use your business network infrastructure as a single-access-point to the Internet.

Two-factor authentication

In the case of the Cloud Server, you can request 2FA on both the connections to the Cloud Server and the connections on the selected node. This will be, in fact, automatic and required if you requested the 2FA on the configuration of the given node. With the Cloud Server product you not only get complete control of who is able to connect to the Cloud Server, but even of who is able to connect to each specific node.

Allow guest access

You can invite to your desktop even users that are not system users, users who don't have a system account. Enable guest desktop sharing on your Cloud Server and people that will come will have the option to login as guests. When they connect to a desktop, the user in front of the machine will have the option to accept or refuse.

Allow visitor access

Exclusive to Cloud Server products are visitor users. They are just like guest users but they require that the connecting user initially logged in to the Cloud Server with a system account. The user that will accept the connection will "see", will be perfectly aware of which user on the Cloud Server they connected as, for additional trust and security.

Cloud Server Products

Check here for the feature comparison of the NoMachine Workgroup Cloud Server and the NoMachine Cloud Server products and here for the comparison of the NoMachine Cloud Server and the NoMachine Enterprise Cloud Server products. Annual subscriptions are available which include software updates and customer support. For complete details about the functionalities available, please consult the specific product.

NoMachine Workgroup Cloud Server

Perfect for single departments and design studios that need to provide centralized access to remote users from outside the private network. Workgroup Cloud Server provides 10 connections to NoMachine-enabled workstations.

NoMachine Cloud Server

Offers the same rich feature-set of Workgroup Cloud Server but with room for up to 40 concurrent connections, connecting users located outside the LAN to their NoMachine-enabled computers. Users can connect from any device or Web browser to Windows, Mac or Linux desktops on the corporate network.

NoMachine Enterprise Cloud Server

A remote access gateway which securely tunnels connections to NoMachine Windows, macOS or Linux nodes as well as foreign Unix hosts residing on the corporate network. Ideal for converging access to large user groups, unlimited users can connect from any device, including via a Web browser.

NoMachine Enterprise Cloud Server Cluster

With integrated high-availability and load-balancing capabilities providing automatic failover in the case of a server outage, Enterprise Cluster Cloud Server is a powerful, resilient gateway to your entire desktop and server infrastructure. Unlimited users can connect securely from any device or Web browser without disruption.

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