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Teradici Introduces New APEX™ Form Factors and Gets Ready for Upcoming Shared Physical GPU Support in VMware View®
[August 27, 2012]

Teradici Introduces New APEX™ Form Factors and Gets Ready for Upcoming Shared Physical GPU Support in VMware View®


SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)--

VMworld 2012, booth #917 - Today at VMworld 2012, Teradici, the developer of the innovative PC-over-IP® (PCoIP) protocol that enables a true PC experience for desktop virtualization, announced the addition of two new form factors to APEX portfolio:

  • APEX 2800 LP, a low profile PCIe x4 card with smaller footprint for compatibility with more rack servers
  • APEX 2800 MXM, the first Mobile PCIe Module (MXM) card in the portfolio for HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) Blade servers

Both cards will maintain the same functionalities and benefits as the current APEX 2800 server offload card, including support for the upcoming physical shared GPU support in VMware View and will be available for purchase through Teradici current distribution channel.

"After receiving overwhelming requests for an APEX MXM card supported on HP ProLiant Blade servers, we are very excited today to announce its upcoming availability," said Trent Punnett, VP of marketing at Teradici. "With the latest release of our server offload technology, more customers will be able to enjoy the benefits of the APEX card in their VMware View deployments. Shared physical GPU support is a significant value-added feature to the solution. Our main goal with these new APEX cards is to enable more customers to access this technology and deliver a truly exceptional end-user experience."

"As virtual desktop infrastructure becomes more mainstream, corporate IT managers need to maximize the number of virtual machines placed on physical servers, while offering employees a robust user experience," said John Gromala, director of marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP, "The Teradici APEX 2800 supported on HP Gen8 Blade servers optimizes server CPU utilization by offloading heavy graphics processing allowing IT managers to cost-effectively deliver a consistent, state-of-the art user experience."

Teradici APEX cards provides the following benefits

  • Insures a great user experience at all time by protecting against load changes
  • Increase scalability by up to 2x with heavy graphics workloads
  • Improves user experience
    • Up to 2x more frame per second with the next generation of Zero Client attached
    • When user's vCPU i heavily taxed, for example providing a smoother video or crisper audio playback
  • Complements upcoming physical shared GPU support in View
  • Easy to install and manage - integrated into View Administrator



Availability

The Teradici APEX 2800 LP card will be generally available in early October 2012 and Teradici APEX 2800 for HP ProLiant Blade servers will be generally available in November 2012.


For more information, go to www.teradici.com/APEX.

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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. More information, including current career openings, visit: www.teradici.com.

Teradici, 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.


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