VMware have been talking long enough about the new VMware View protocol that apparently will make it a contender to Citrix ICA, guess we will have to wait and see on that one. Anyway the new View 4.0 finally introduces the software-only implementation of the Teradici PC over IP (PCoIP) remoting protocol.
VMware has been working on a way to replace Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) since late 2007, which has been one of its main problems to date.
VMware has developed a two-phased plan to deliver a more efficient protocol for its VDI platform.
- the company signed an OEM agreement with the thin client vendor WYSE Technology, to use its TCX-MMR (for multimedia) and TCX-MDS (for multi-display) technologies.
- VMware started a co-development program with Teradici, to create a software-only version of its high-performance PCoIP protocol.
At the moment the Teradici technology only works with the help of dedicated graphic adapters that must be installed on the machine serving the virtual desktops.
After months of work it seems that the two companies have something ready to show because this first private beta of View 4.0 is completely dedicated to PCoIP.
Subsequent beta builds will focus more on the connection broker itself and may be open to a wider audience.
We’ll see if what the two companies are building is fast enough to replace RDP (which is becoming more VDI-focused thanks to the Calista technologies that Microsoft acquired in January 2008).
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