Teradici APEX Card Highlights Growing Density of Virtual Desktop Deployments

Privately held Teradici has released its APEX server-assist card worldwide, highlighting growing use of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and accompanying performance challenges with supporting more users per host server. Teradici invented the PCoIP protocol that VMware (NYSE:VMW) View uses to communicate with clients. APEX offloads PCOIP processing for the 64 currently most active sessions, allowing more sessions per CPU. More than 50% of companies use virtual desktops now, the majority using VDI; 70% of them project increases in 2012 in the number of staff who will use a virtual desktop regularly.

Impacts:

Enterprises: Adding servers is not the only solution to virtual desktop performance problems; explore your options.

Vendors: VDI performance improvement will be steadily higher-profile for many months to come -- can you ride this wave?

Investors: Companies as varied as Liquidware Labs and Atlantis Computing (both privately held) offer solutions to VDI performance problems; many will be acquired by major players Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS), Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), HP (NYSE:HPQ), and VMWare.