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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Greater Good Of Humanity

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:33:50 +0000

This is one of those stories that makes me believe that what I do on a day-to-day basis has greater purpose than simply serving large corporations to generate more capital. I believe we have the power today with the technology to solve the toughest human and social problems. That's my hope.

Teradici is giving away a trip to VMworld 2013 Barcelona

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:23:23 +0000

To celebrate 1,000,000 over 1 million Teradici PCoIP® zero clients shipped to enterprises worldwide Teradici is sending one lucky winner to VMworld 2013 Barcelona, October 14-16th. Teradici will cover flights, hotel and conference pass for 3 days. Thanks to Teradici for supporting the virtualization and EUC communities!

Horizon View + GPU + APEX + Leap Motion

Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:07:31 +0000

Just thought would be nice to share this little video recorded by Gunnar Berger, a Gartner Analyst (@gunnarwb). In the video Gunnar uses a Horizon View VDI session with PCoIP, plus NVIDIA GPU and a Teradici APEX acceleration card. Nothing new here, except that he added a Leap Motion making it a cool demo!

F5 PCoIP Proxy for VMware Horizon View

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:54:52 +0000

I want to share this excellent F5 video that demonstrate hot quick and easily you can configure Horizon View and F5 BIG-IP APM to natively support PCoIP proxy, bypassing requirements for Horizon View Security Servers. The PCoIP proxy combined with the BIG-IP platform will deliver hardened security and increased scalability according to F5. Thanks to Paul Pindell for the explanations.

My Work & Home Lab Environments

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:45:12 +0000

This is one of those geek posts that are interesting to the community IMO. I am frequently asked about the lab environment I am using for prototyping End User Computing stuff and general VMware product learning and testing. People ask me what kind of physical hardware and logical setup I am using to interact with multiple different VMware products.

PCoIP Bandwidth Calculator and Settings Guideline

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:10:00 +0000

Teradici’s PCoIP display protocol provides real-time delivery with high fidelity desktop experience for VMware View virtual desktops. To ensure a responsive desktop, the PCoIP protocol must be deployed across a properly architected virtual desktop network infrastructure that meets bandwidth, QoS, latency, jitter, and packet loss requirements.

Engineers Unplugged: Be Kind to Your Protocol

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:09:00 +0000

During VMworld Barcelona Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja) from Cisco asked me and Chuck Hirstius (@remexus) to talk during few minutes about any subject. Here is our pitch on PCoIP deployment.

Zero Client Touch-Enabled Display Demo [Video]

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:40:15 +0000

Last week I blogged about my experiences using a GVISION 19?, a touch-enabled PCoIP Zero-Client LCD Display (Zero Client Touch-Enabled Display). Later on the week VMware SE Desktop Specialist, Bernie Cyplik, shared with me a video where he demonstrate how the touch enabled display could be used in a healthcare environment.

Zero Client Touch-Enabled Display

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:57:58 +0000

For couple months I had a GVISION 19" TFT LCD Display on my work desk. No, it was not my primary display, but it was nice to test it. This display is a Touch Enabled device that runs PCoIP natively using the Teradici chipset and connect directly to VMware View just like other PCoIP zero client displays. The difference is that this one is touch screen.

PCoIP Host Card with VMware View PSG

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:40:00 +0000

My good virtual friend Joshua Spenser (@VirtualSpense) from VMware created an awesome Powerpoint presentation (with Video) outlining the steps required to setup VMware View to broker connections to a physical PC with the Teradici PCIe PCoIP Host Card.

Josh, thanks for sharing with us!

PCoIP Zero Clients with Imprivata OneSign Authentication and USB2.0

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:44:12 +0000

Teradici is releasing today a new version (3.5.0) of the PCoIP Zero Client firmware. This new version provides major security and functionality enhancements. Teradici itself is calling it the biggest PCoIP release to this data.

Imprivata OneSign authentication – Secure single sign-on authentication facilitates increased productivity for roaming desktop users
Improved USB transfer rates with VDI (USB2.0) – Users can expect to see up to 3X improvement in transfer speeds
802.1X network authentication – PCoIP zero client devices can now be deployed with the highest degree of 802.1X security using EAP-TLS certificate-based authentication.
IPv6 support – PCoIP zero clients updated to support ongoing mandates for IPv6 adherence.
“Help Desk” mode – Administrators can enable an OSD login screen link which allows users to log in to a particular VM of the administrator’s choice. This VM may be configured by the administrator to provide specific support directions for users
Support for up to 25 View Connection Server addresses – Adds additional flexibility and scalability for large enterprises.
100BASE-FX – Support for fast Ethernet over optical fiber for enhanced security over long distances

Along with the new features Teradici is also releasing a new version of the PCoIP Management Console, version 1.7.0.

Note that the enhancements are only available for the hardware based Teradici PCoIP Zero client. The soft version provided by VMware with VMware View does not currently support the enhancements above.

PCoIP Network Design Checklist

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:25:00 +0000

The PCoIP protocol provides a real-time delivery of a rich user desktop experience in virtual desktop and remote workstation environments. To ensure a responsive desktop, the PCoIP protocol must be deployed across a properly architected virtual desktop network infrastructure that meets bandwidth, QoS, latency, jitter, and packet loss requirements.

Teradici PCoIP Management Console

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:33:00 +0000

As we see Teradici’s PCoIP display protocol being widely adopted by organisations there is also an increasing number of end-point devices that will need to be managed. These devices are becoming more diversified everyday, and they now may include ThinClients, PCoIP enabled Displays, mobiles and tablets.

Teradici PCoIP receives new IANA reserved network ports

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:58:00 +0000

On April, 5th Wyse published a new Wyse P20 Firmware Release Notes document for their Zero Client device. Amongst the new features announced there are some important PCoIP port changes.

Changed the UDP port number used for data plane communications from 50002 to the IANA reserved port for PCoIP traffic (4172).
Changed the TCP port number used for control plane communications from 50002 to the IANA reserved port for PCoIP traffic (4172). This affects connections that are not brokered by a VMware View Connection Server.

Teradici has registered port 4172 with IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) and this is going to be the official PCoIP port moving forward. IANA is responsible for maintaining many of the codes and numbers contained in a variety of Internet protocols. They provide this service in coordination with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).