The transitions to and from the CPU and Server Offload Card happen instantly and transparently, protecting the users’ experience even as load changes. It determines which displays will benefit the most from hardware acceleration in real time. The card than automatically monitors the CPU and graphic encoding demands of each virtual machine and seamlessly offloads the most demanding PCoIP protocol image encoding tasks from the CPU. The APEX 2800 is a true plug and play card which is simply plugged into the server and hardware acceleration is selected in VMware View. The APEX 2800 works seamlessly with VMware View (4.6, 5.0 or later). Because of the offloading to the APEX2800 you can deliver a more reliable and consistent level of experience regardless of the overall demand on server CPUs. The Teradici APEX2800 delivers an even better PCoIP user experience and improves the number of VDI sessions per server. With 2GB of on-board memory, each Server Offload Card can support up to 64 displays at a resolution of 1920×1200. The APEX 2800 card offloads graphics processing from the server CPU which can reduce server CPU utilization by up to 50%, freeing up valuable CPU cycles which can be used to support even more virtual machines, allow existing virtual machines to run more intensive applications, or simply to provide more headroom to your VDI implementation. The many tasks a CPU performs, together with PCoIP® protocol image encoding, limits the number of virtual machines that can run on any one server. VDI implementations are typically constrained by the servers’ CPUs.

Today Teradici announced the availability of their long awaited Server Offload Card, the Teradici APEX 2800.

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