Brian Madden speaks with James Lui, Director of Technical Services, Ericom and Stuart Robinson, Director of Business Development, Teradici at BriForum 2008 in Chicago.
To watch a live recording of Ericom’s connection broker demo of PowerTerm WebConnect supporting PC-over-IP protocol, go to http://media.brianmadden.com/briforumplayer/bfplayerdynamic.asp?id=420.
With deployment of host compute resources and 100’s to 1000’s of desktop portals in enterprise environments, a connection management tool is needed to get users connected to the right datacenter resources. This includes dynamic scenarios where users could connect to their datacenter compute resource from their desk, from a meeting room, or from a remote office or home office. Ericom’s PowerTerm Webconnect is a connection broker for physical and/or virtual desktops including Microsoft Terminal Services and various VDI solutions. Webconnect also incorporates capability to broker and manage PC-over-IP (PCoIP) sessions.
Ericom’s PowerTerm WebConnect solution centrally manages access to PCoIP desktop portals and includes key connection broker capabilities such as:
Last week, Dell announced the latest Precision Workstation product supporting PC-over-IP (PCoIP) technology. Dell’s new platform is shown in the photo below. The R5400 rack workstation (shown on the left) and FX100 remote access device (middle) incorporate PCoIP hardware-based compression and decompression technology. This solution delivers the full power that workstation users are accustomed to — remotely, securely, and with no performance degradation. Read what some users are already saying about this product here.
The R5400 marks the first PCoIP product available in a rack workstation form factor. Other partners continue to deliver PCoIP solutions in alternative form factors like blade PCs.
May 5-8, 2008
This past week Teradici teamed up with Amulet Hotkey and Ericom Software to demonstrate Teradici’s PC-over-IP technology and some recent developments in the area of virtualized desktops and WAN optimizations.
The demonstrations also included trader desk products from Amulet Hotkey and Ericom’s connection manager.
Highlights:
Setup:
1) Quad Display PC-over-IP Trader Workstation – bottom four displays
Application Content: Live Reuters market data, Windows WMV HD video, AMD-NVIDIA 3D DirectX visualizer, 3D CAD, high resolution medical images, PowerPoint, etc.
2) PC-over-IP Technology Showing Recent WAN Optimizations - top left display
3) Reuters Display – top middle left
4) Presentation PC (directly driven by PC) – top middle right display
5) Network impairment System Display – top right display
Ericom Connection Broker Demo
Teradici’s booth showing PC-over-IP technology demonstration systems. The demo systems included a single Vista workstation and a dual display CATIA workstation showing CAD models, a SpaceExplorer 3D mouse, HD videos, webcam, etc.
PC-over-IP powered IBM HC10 Workstation Blade & CP20 Desktop Portal – Industry’s first workstation blade to achieve CATIA certification.
Teradici presents at COE Vendor Solutions Theater on Tuesday, April 29 at 10:50 a.m.
Industry First CATIA Certified Workstation Blade
IBM HC10 Workstation Blade and BladeCenter S Chassis
Team Teradici at COE 2008 PLM Conference & TechniFair
Buena Vista, FL - Teradici today at COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair will showcase a dual-display remote workstation running CATIA, industry’s leading solution for product design excellence (http://www.3ds.com/products/catia/). COE is an international, professional organization uniting and supporting the users of Dassault Systemes software such as CATIA. COE has over 80,000 users in 400 member companies that represent 11 industries.
Teradici will present at the COE TechniFair Vendor Solutions Theater on Tuesday, April 29th at 10:50am. Title: Delivering a Rich Workstation Experience to Your Desktop Using PC-over-IP® Technology.
Teradici’s PC-over-IP technology delivers breakthrough innovation in computer display compression to deliver a true workstation experience over standard IP networks. PC-over-IP technology delivers key advantages over other consolidation techniques for design engineering workstations including:
Stay tuned for additional pictures and show updates.
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Teradici.
Today we are officially launching our company and our product, something we call PC-over-IP. We think it is going to fundamentally change the way computers are deployed, managed, used, and yes, even enjoyed.
Several years ago, my co-founders Dave, Maher, Ken and I were looking for a really tough problem to solve - and hopefully one that was interesting enough start a new company around. Like any good start-up, it had to represent not only a difficult technical problem, but also had to solve a big pain point that customers and end-users would love to see solved. And of course it helped necessary things like financing if there happened to be a huge potential market for it.
After looking at several opportunities in several different markets, everything from consumer electronics to wireless to storage, we noticed that many large IT organizations were struggling with the problem of the desktop PC. No question it was powerful. And it provided a fantastic user experience with great graphics, video and multimedia. And was used by virtually every employee in every company around the world.
However many IT organizations in different vertical industries were really struggling with the desktop PC. As security threats increased, and wide ranging compliance legislation was mandated, the ability to ensure corporate PC’s could be managed and secured was now a huge issue. It was also time consuming. It was also expensive.
The obvious answer was centralization. If everything is placed back in the secure datacenter, all under IT control, everything suddenly becomes much easier to manage, secure and ensure compliance to. In fact servers had enjoyed this luxury for some time - so why not do the same thing for the Enterprise PC. Shouldn’t the PC get the same benefits as servers - things like storage networks, blades, and virtualization?
Just one problem. The user is still at their desk. And we as users do not want anything other then the latest and greatest desktop experience. High resolution displays. High definition audio. Any type of USB device. Multiple monitors. Any application. No compromises!
And this is where PC-over-IP and Teradici was born. What if we could develop a chip that for the first time let users and computers be separated by an IP network?
Where the operating system and applications ran just as they would on a standard PC workstation.
Where the user - even a high end workstation user - could not tell that the PC was no longer under their desk.
And everything - from display resolution to the type of USB devices able to connect - was completely under IT control. Everything or nothing, depending on the user using the system.
So now three years later we are introducing our technology to deliver on that initial vision. And our first customers - IBM, Devon IT, ClearCube, and Verari - are introducing products today that we think will revolutionize how PC’s are deployed in the Enterprise. For the first time ever - a completely uncompromised user experience with the all of the benefits of complete centralization.
Everybody wins!
I hope that you will all get an opportunity to see for yourself our technology and usher in this new beginning for the PC.
Thank you!
Dan.
PS - Let us know what you think, I’d love to hear your comments, suggestions, and feedback.
