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Teradici Brings PCoIP to Microsoft Remote Desktop Services

Allows outstanding PCoIP protocol performance, security, and user experience across both VMware View and Microsoft RDS desktops

Burnaby, British Columbia – August 13, 2012 — Teradici, the developer of the innovative PC-over-IP® (PCoIP®) protocol that enables a true PC experience for cloud delivered desktops, today announced the introduction of the Teradici Remote Desktop Services Host (RDSH) solution, delivering PCoIP capabilities to Microsoft Windows Server® RDS environments. With Teradici RDSH, IT managers who deploy both VMware View and RDS desktop environments can now have consistent performance, security, and user experience across both types of desktop pools.

“Until today VMware View customers and service providers looking to combine full-featured VDI-based virtual desktops with Microsoft RDS to provide basic desktop virtualization services have had no choice but to run multiple separately managed desktop virtualization solutions with multiple remote display protocols; both of which significantly add to the cost and complexity of a comprehensive service,” said Simon Bramfitt, research analyst at Entelechy Associates. “Teradici's entry into the RDSH market will prove attractive both to existing View customers and service providers alike as awareness of the benefits of desktop virtualization increases and organizations that had previously discounted VDI reconsider that decision. Teradici's announcement of its RDSH solution should do much to refocus attention on the technology that has frequently been overlooked since the introduction of VDI. The increased choice it offers will do much to help customers looking to implement RDSH, especially those who do not need the comprehensive feature set and corresponding premium price of Citrix XenApp.”

For IT managers with both VMware View and Microsoft RDS session desktop environments, Teradici RDSH provides RDS session desktops with:

  • PCoIP protocol support for Microsoft RDS session desktops with the benefits of industry leading performance, security, and user experience.
  • The ability to broker and manage both VMware View and RDS session desktops through VMware View Manager.
  • The benefits of high performing, secure, and minimal management Teradici Zero Clients for RDS session desktops. Teradici PCoIP Zero Clients are available from over 30 OEM partners in a wide variety of form factors and options.
  • The ability to use the revolutionary Teradici APEX 2800 PCoIP server offload card to provide Microsoft RDS desktop sessions with the same increase in performance and scalability as currently offered in VMware View deployments.

“VMware is excited to collaborate with Teradici for RDSH,” said Vittorio Viarengo, vice president of marketing for end user computing, VMware. “RDS desktops can now get the same great experience as VMware View desktops, with the benefit of simplified desktop management through View Manager.”

“From the desktop to the datacenter, Dell Wyse offers the broadest and most advanced portfolio of solutions for desktop virtualization.” - Param Desai, Director of Product Management, Dell Wyse. “We embrace the opportunity to expand compatibility options for our current and future customers through the addition of PCoIP as a supported protocol in Microsoft’s popular RDS solution.”

“HP is thrilled to offer a Teradici-based product given the company’s recent announcement to also support concurrent connectivity to Microsoft RDSH deployments with the PCoIP protocol. With HP’s new products, and in tight collaboration with partners such as Teradici, we can now offer the broadest ISV and protocol support across the full line up of cloud clients including traditional desktops, All-In-One, Mobile, and Power-Over-Ethernet Thin Clients. This allows customers to select what best meets their needs, while also increasing manageability and reducing costs,” said Jeff Groudan, director, thin clients, HP.

“Presidio is committed to providing our customers the best remote desktop solutions to satisfy their needs. Teradici RDSH brings PCoIP performance and security to Microsoft RDS sessions, and provides a complimentary solution to VMware View deployments,” said Steve Kaplan, vice president of data center and cloud solutions at Presidio. “IT managers can now enjoy the benefits of PCoIP across both VMware View and Microsoft RDS session desktops”.

Full compatibility with Teradici based PCoIP Zero Clients and the APEX 2800 server offload card will be available with Teradici RDSH. Similar to its deployment on VMware View VDI servers, APEX 2800 will offload the image processing load from Windows Server® RDS environments, providing increased scalability and performance of RDS sessions, as well as insuring an optimal user experience during peak loads.

“We are looking forward to supporting both VMware View and Microsoft RDS desktops with V3’s solution,” said Scott Allen, CMO of V3 Systems. “The benefits of an integrated APEX 2800 with the V3 Appliance product line will be as substantial for RDS session desktops as they are for VMware View, and it’s all in one easy to deploy architecture.”

“This industry-first integration of Microsoft RDS session desktops with Teradici’s PCoIP protocol and VMware View further advances our vision to deliver highly secure, centrally managed desktops with advanced performance capability,” said Dan Cordingley, CEO, Teradici. “Teradici is once again demonstrating the flexibility of its innovative technology for exceptional user experience anywhere, over any network and to any type of device without incurring the security risks associated with having data reside in remote appliances.”

“Server-based computing solutions have continued to grow in popularity alongside countless virtual desktop initiatives,” said Chris Wolf, research VP, Gartner. “Server-based computing and virtual desktops offer the flexibility users often require to access applications and data from a variety of locations and devices, as well as improve business agility and reduce OPEX. Vendor solutions that include the capability to support both server-based computing and virtual desktops are best poised for long term success.”

Teradici RDSH will be generally available in December 2012 and will be demonstrated at Teradici’s booth #917 at VMworld 2012 taking place August 26 to August 30 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco. For further information, visit www.teradici.com/RDSH

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About PCoIP Technology

Teradici’s PCoIP protocol is an innovative remote display technology that allows the user’s desktop operating system, applications, and data to reside in the datacenter, eliminating the need for traditional desktop workstations, PCs and thin clients, and delivers an uncompromised user experience to each person, anywhere, over any network and to any type of device without incurring the security risks associated with having data reside in remote PCs, laptops, or tablets. PCoIP technology provides high resolution, full frame rate 3D graphics and high-definition media, with full USB peripheral interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency WAN. It compresses, encrypts and encodes the entire computing experience at the datacenter and transmits it 'pixels only' across a standard IP network to secure, stateless PCoIP zero clients, thin clients, and mobile devices.

The PCoIP protocol is implemented in several software configurations, including VMware View™, the industry leading desktop virtualization platform as well as in silicon for hardware accelerated performance and enhanced security. A growing ecosystem of over 30 third-party vendors provide a wide variety of PCoIP products including server plug-in cards, rack and tower workstations, blade PCs, zero clients, integrated monitors, and IP phones with PCoIP capability.

About Teradici

Teradici Corporation has developed PCoIP® (PC-over-IP®) technology, a unique remote display protocol which makes network delivered computing a viable corporate computing reality. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Burnaby, BC, Canada, Teradici for the first time enables an exceptional end user experience for datacenter-based computing. Through a combination of unique graphics algorithms, flexible software solutions, high-performance silicon processing, and workstation/server add-in cards, the company is changing how personal computers are used, deployed and managed. For more information, including current career openings, visit: www.teradici.com.


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