In recent years, VMware have moved to developing an in-house protocol ( Blast Extreme), and, whilst they continue to support PCoIP which is popular with their users, it feels more like an offering in maintenance rather than development. Meanwhile, Teradici carried on working on their own standalone offerings, developing protocol enhancements that didn’t necessarily make it into the VMware offering.
In 2008, VMware, lacking a performant protocol in-house, licensed Teradici PCoIP and included it for free with their products. They established themselves as one of the most sophisticated and mature vendors in this market, and naturally carved out a niche in the most demanding cutting-edge use cases where the mass protocols didn’t quite cut it, focused around their PCoIP protocol.
Later, brokering and management software followed, along with client software that meant you didn’t need to use Teradici’s dedicated hardware, and could instead repurpose generic PCs and laptops. To facilitate this, they developed sophisticated protocol and compression software to work with this hardware, as well as with more generic hardware. This included server and end point cards and the like, that often were incorporated into a range of end points, including thin clients. Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.Teradici were traditionally a company that made hardware particularly good at processing graphics and for remote access. This means motion is smooth during video playback, and that colors, lines and texture details are accurate when performing tasks such as editing, compositing, texturing, or color correction. This capability dynamically switches between CPU and GPU resources to deliver whatever content is on screen in a given moment-whether video, static images or text-to make more efficient use of network bandwidth. Support for the Mac follows the company’s latest Cloud Access Software release, which includes PCoIP Ultra protocol enhancements, such as the launch of its Auto-Offload feature.
Additionally, all existing PCoIP endpoints including macOS clients, Windows clients, Linux clients, PCoIP Zero Clients and PCoIP thin clients will be able to connect to a macOS host.Īdditionally content creator workflows including VFX, animation, video editing and other high-performance design workflows will be supported for Mac users with Cloud Access Software. Teradici Cloud Access Software will support Macs running either macOS Catalina or macOS Big Sur. Support for the Mac will be available in mid-2021 and will extend to knowledge worker and power user use cases.
“By extending Teradici Cloud Access Software support to macOS, our customers can now securely access their high-powered Mac wherever they may be, including from their home office.”Ĭloud Access Software is designed to support on-premises data center and public cloud environments and will support macOS in deployment scenarios. “We’re excited to bring high performance remote access technology to everyday workflows for our Mac users, and we want to make it as straightforward as possible for enterprises to deploy our solution within their existing IT infrastructure, ” says David Smith, CEO at Teradici. With Teradici’s Cloud Access Software leveraging the PCoIP remote display protocol, users can remotely access their Mac as if they were on a local machine, with the resolution and color fidelity they need to maintain quality standards, the company reports.
Teradici, creator of PCoIP technology and Cloud Access Software, is adding support for the Mac.