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Published on: March 2008
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 12 pages
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Overview:
Implementing and maintaining a cost-efficient, secure, and powerful IT computing environment is a complex task. IT managers are increasingly under pressure to manage system and data security, space constraints, and maintain an increasing number of software applications and hardware devices. With traditional PCs, this can be an onerous task. Thin clients and blades are smaller, quieter, require less maintenance than PCs, and are more energy-efficient since they require fewer components. However, blade clients still require their own operating system and CPU, and without special configurations, thin clients cannot perform technical work such as scientific research, engineering development, creative graphic arts, and financial industry analysis and trading.

Teradici's solution is designed to improve PC asset management by centralizing the operating system, applications and PC components, providing enhanced security, power savings and simplified maintenance, while maintaining the power and user experience of a traditional desktop PC.

Teradici is taking a different approach to computer deployment and management, using hardware in the form of its PC-over-IPTM (personal computer over Internet protocol) Processor, instead of more traditional software solutions that are on the market to bridge the gap between host and client. Teradici's solution replaces desktop PCs with desktop portals about the size of a few stacked CDs which deliver DVI video, USB, and audio signals to the user while reducing power consumption.

To establish itself in the market, IDC believes Teradici will need to:

--Continue to partner with large PC, workstation and server OEMs, blade and thin client companies, and software companies that produce connection managers, to increase its sales infrastructure and market opportunities.

--Outpace competitors by modifying its product to address technology developments such as virtualization, WiFi (wireless fidelity), and dual-core computing.

--Continue to work with standards groups such as the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), to establish connections with potential partners, increase its visibility in the industry, and have an influence on the standards that will impact the adoption of its solution.