Teradici Announces APEX 2800 PCoIP® Server Offload Card for VMware View™ VDI Deployments

August 29, 2011

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PCoIP hardware encoding for VMware View deployments on display at VMworld Las Vegas

BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Teradici, the developer of the innovative PC-over-IP^® (PCoIP^®) protocol that enables a true PC experience for desktop virtualization, today announced the APEX 2800 server offload card for VMware View deployments. APEX 2800 will be shown in live demonstrations in the Teradici booth #1013 and with VXL Instruments in the Lenovo booth #1264, highlighting the product’s ability to reduce CPU utilization and increase VDI consolidation ratios.

The APEX 2800 server offload card will also be on display in the Dell booth #901.

The APEX 2800 is specifically designed to offload PCoIP image encoding from the server CPU, significantly reducing CPU utilization. Testing has benchmarked the following two benefits:

The APEX 2800 increases the consolidation ratio per server by at least 1.4 times in an environment where even as little as 5% of users’ displays require high refresh rates such as browsing quickly through a PDF document or watching a video
The APEX 2800 reduces the CPU usage of peak users engaged in activities like watching a video by up to 50%, protecting and ensuring a consistently high level of user experience at the desktop, ultimately enabling IT managers to deploy VDI without having to worry about unpredictable CPU processing demands

The APEX 2800 server offload card dynamically offloads the 64 most active displays. It can also be configured to give priority offload to up to five user groups. Fully integrated into the VMware View Administrator, the APEX 2800 server offload card is easy to manage, providing the perfect companion for any VDI deployment using VMware View.

“The success of any desktop virtualization initiative hinges on performance and manageability,” said Trent Punnett, vice president of marketing, product management and systems engineering at Teradici. “The APEX 2800 server offload card dramatically reduces CPU utilization ensuring a consistently high level of user experience.”

Currently only available to Teradici’s OEM partners for validation on their server solutions, the APEX 2800 will be commercially available in December through Teradici distribution partners including EVGA in Canada and the US. For further information on product availability and how to purchase, visit www.teradici.com.

About PCoIP Protocol and APEX 2800 Server Offload Card

Teradici’s PCoIP protocol is an innovative remote display technology that 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 APEX 2800 server offload card accelerates PCoIP image encoding by offloading this task from the CPU to a dedicated processor on a half-length, full-height PCI Express card. APEX 2800 is an easy to implement and cost effective solution for VMware View VDI deployments that decreases CPU utilization of peak users by up to 50% and enables VDI consolidation ratio improvements of at least 1.4 times with even as little as 5% peak users. Most importantly, APEX 2800 protects and ensures a consistently high level of user experience by managing unexpected peaks in PCoIP encoding demand and headroom leaves the CPU to run applications better.

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 and 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 visit: www.teradici.com.

PCoIP and PC-over-IP are registered trademarks of Teradici Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Any other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.