“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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