Teradici Announces New PCoIP Hardware Accelerator 

Teradici today announced general availability of the Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator for HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) Blade Servers. Tested and certified for ProLiant BL460c Gen8 and WS460c Gen8 Blade Servers, the hardware accelerator is available now through Teradici’s worldwide network of reseller partners.

With today’s news, Teradici and HP are bringing the benefits of PCoIP hardware acceleration to a broader base of end users in virtualized computing environments. The PCoIP Hardware Accelerator for HP ProLiant Gen8 Blade Servers reduces server CPU utilization and complements physical GPU support in VMware Horizon View deployments to deliver a robust virtual computing experience to users of the most demanding, graphically-intensive applications.

“Users have come to expect uncompromised access to media-rich content and high-end graphics applications, even at peak usage times on virtual desktops,” said Olivier Favre, director of product management, Teradici. “With the new Hardware Accelerator for HP ProLiant Gen8 Blade Servers, corporate IT managers can cost-effectively maximize the number of virtual machines placed on HP blade servers with VMware Horizon View, while ensuring a consistent, high-performance computing experience across all users, at all times and regardless of task or activity level.”

The Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator (APEX 2800) dramatically increases the frames per second delivered to the zero client, by up to 100 percent, when coupled with a physical GPU. Since its introduction in February 2012, the hardware accelerator product line has been broadly adopted in a variety of VDI environments in which high quality graphical performance is paramount. For example:

• Jacobs Technology is enabling a federal agency to better serve citizens at a highly-trafficked airport by making highly-secure, “forensic-quality” video surveillance footage accessible to airport personnel on any device, any time.
• At Lambton College students and faculty are running graphic-intensive applications and programs from any of the PCoIP zero clients, thin clients and PCs in classrooms and labs across campus with full confidence of a high-quality VDI experience and without impacting their consolidation ratio target.
• And, the IT team at Florida Atlantic University has virtualized all desktops at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and achieved an increase in frames-per-second delivered to the end point by more than 80 percent - without having to add more vCPU or reduce VDI consolidation ratio.