On the client side, Teradici has PCoIP software clients for pretty much every platform - Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android. These hardwarebased solutions remain popular with many customers, but the company’s long term strategy is to do the encoding / decoding in software.įrom a product perspective, this started out with Teradici’s Workstation Access Software, which we reviewed in 2015 and was sold by Dell, BOXX and others, but this product has since been discontinued and everything now comes under the Cloud Access Software brand. This includes PCIe cards that sit inside a workstation or server and PCoIP zero clients for the end points. Teradici made its name using dedicated hardware for encoding and decoding. “Our relationship with Teradici enables us to deliver a unique solution that incorporates the hardware, software, and support into a per user, per month pricing model accessible to businesses of all sizes,” says Rob McCormick, CEO of Avatara. This is one of several datacentre VDI user environments which come under Avatara’s CompleteCloud brand. CAD users get access to a dedicated 1:1 resource through a 1U rack mounted server with its own CPU, GPU and memory, to run applications including Catia, MicroStation and AutoCAD Civil 3D. BOXX workstations, on the other hand, are commonly overclocked to 5.0GHz+, so CAD users should see a significant performance benefit.Ĭloud computing specialist Avatara recently launched its own range of GPUaccelerated virtual machines that use Teradici technology. Most cloud workstation services use dedicated rack workstations, which tend to feature virtualised CPUs with lots of cores and relatively low frequencies. The big value proposition here is performance. Its newly formed Cloud Services Division is now making those exact same machines available to customers over a 1:1 remote connection via the cloud. In the last few months BOXX and Avatera have launched remote graphics services designed specifically for CAD.īOXX is well known to readers of AEC Magazine for its high-performance overclocked desktop workstations. To date, there hasn’t been as much interest in the AEC sector but, with the ongoing shift to working from home due to Covid-19, this could now change. “We think about 80% of all remote workloads in the visual effects industry are using either our Remote Workstation cards or our Cloud Access Software,” he says. Main explains that M&E has proved a key industry for Teradici over the years because of PCoIP’s lossless encoding, colour accuracy, security and, more recently, the ability to support multiple monitors at 4K. There are several service providers that offer PCoIP-based solutions to the media and entertainment (M&E) sector, including BeBop technologies. While public cloud means firms don’t need to manage physical workstations, they still need to have some experience of DevOps, he says. Main explains that service providers are becoming an increasingly popular choice for customers that want to outsource everything. More recently there has been a lot of interest in PCoIP from smaller managed service providers who are looking to provide remote solutions for their graphicshungry customers through GPUaccelerated cloud workstations. There are plenty more doing similar for desktop workstations. Teradici’s PCoIP technology is also being used extensively to deliver 1:1 connections to rack workstations from Dell, Fujitsu, Boston and many others. “Our software product is available as a marketplace instance and along with reference designs, is in all three public clouds,” confirms Ian Main, Teradici’s technical marketing principal. It helps Nutanix deploy workstations and virtual desktops in on-premise or hybrid cloud environments, and it can be found in the public cloud through Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Computing Services. It is used by VMware for its desktop and app virtualisation software VMware Horizon (although, more recently, VMware has developed its own called Blast Extreme). The company places a big emphasis on high-fidelity ‘lossless’ image quality that preserves every little detail when remotely accessing graphics-intensive applications like 3D CAD, visualisation and visual effects. With 15 million end points using its PC-over-IP (PCoIP) display protocol, Teradici has established a strong footing in high-performance virtual desktops. BOXX uses PCoIP to give remote ‘cloud’ access to its overclocked desktop workstations
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