PCoIP Zero Client by Philips
Recently a product came to my attention from a vendor I did not expect. Philips introduced an integrated PCoIP zero client they call the Philips Cloud Monitor Base, model SB4B1927VB . It comes in the form factor of a monitor stand, where the zero client…
PCoIP Support for Microsoft RDS
This week Teradici, creator of the PCoIP protocol, released a technology preview of their new product named Teradici Arch. Teradici Arch is asoftware-based solution that enables the use of the PCoIP protocol for Microsoft RDS as an alternative to Microsoft RDP. This should provide better user experience…
Teradici APEX 2800 PCoIP Server Offload Card available now
Today Teradici announced the availability of their long awaited Server Offload Card, the Teradici APEX 2800. VDI implementations are typically constrained by the servers’ CPUs. The many tasks a CPU performs, together with PCoIP® protocol image encoding, limits the number of virtual machines that can…
New PCoIP firmware released
Today VMware’s partner Teradici announced a significant new releases from their PCoIP zero client and host card firmware and the PCoIP Management Console. The following releases are now available for download on the Teradici support site (techsupport.teradici.com): Firmware 3.5.0 for PCoIP Zero Clients and PCoIP…
VMware View 5.x with PCoIP Optimization Controls
VMware in collaboration with Teradici is working hard to improve the rich user experience even more by adding new features and improving existing ones. The vDesktops running on VMware View can be reached through lots of different devices including Apple iPads or Android-based tablets. The…
WAN optimization for VMware View 4.0 PCoIP
Although PCoIP is very efficient display protocol also over WAN connection. (See video demonstration on Vimeo ) there was still the leak of a good WAN optimization solution for VMware View 4.0. We all know that the user experience will heavily benefit if we can control…
VMware View 4 released [Cont’d]
Yesterday VMware released it’s new version of its VDI solution, VMware View 4. VMware View 4 includes the following new features and improvements: VMware View with PCoIP – PCoIP provides an optimized desktop experience for the delivery of the entire desktop environment including applications, images,…
VMware launches View 4.0 beta
As a real VMware View enthusiast I’m really anxious to work with the new VMware View 4 with PCoIP. Just like vCenter Site Recovery Manager, were the new version was released last week, VMware View has to be adjusted to support VMware vSphere 4. The…
PCoIP the road ahead, enabling a rich desktop experience from task workers to designers
I just finished a great webinar by Randy Groves, Chief Technology Officer at Teradici Corporation. The challenge for this and upcoming years is to give the most demanding users a true user experience while working on a true zero client through any network. The Teradici…
VMware View software PCoIP demo
VMware announced their effort to produce a software implementation of PCoIP together with Terradici at VMworld 2009 in Cannes. Since then I have been anxiously waiting for a demo or beta. During today’s keynote at VMworld 2009 VMware gave a demo of their long awaited…
VMware View with software Teradici PCoIP on the horizon?
Today Virtualization.info published the news that VMware View 4.0 went into private beta with the Teradici PCoIP software implementation. I was unable to verify this but I assume it’s correct. So why am I so excited about the upcoming version?