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Teradici and HP to Tout HP Anyware for Digital Workspaces at NAB

Teradici and HP will spotlight HP Anyware at NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 23-27, according to Ziad Lammam, global head of Teradici Product Management at HP.

HP Anyware is the enterprise IT software that HP and its Teradici division said April 20 “keeps people and teams productive by providing secure access to their digital workspaces from virtually any mix of infrastructure,” anywhere, to any device.

HP Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire Teradici in July and closed on the transaction Oct. 1.

“Since then, we’ve been focusing on getting our remote access solution, Teradici CAS and HP’s remote access solution, ZCentral Remote Boost, integrated together, and that’s what” this announcement is  “really focused on,” Lammam told MESA in an interview on April 19.

HP Anyware represents the new “joint brand” of the integrated Teradici CAS and ZCentral Remote Boost, he noted.

HP Anyware integrates Teradici CAS and ZCentral Remote Boost features into a single solution that provides companies the flexibility to “harness the power” of their cloud, data center, edge, operating system or workstation infrastructure to “deliver the ultimate user experience to end-user devices (PC, Mac, laptop, tablet, thin and zero clients), anywhere their workforce needs to be,” HP and Teradici said April 20 while announcing the upcoming launch.

The first beta release of HP Anyware will launch by the end of April, with general availability following this summer, Lammam said. “And then we’ll have releases, just like Teradici has always done. Every three months, there will be a new release adding more features and more functionality.”

Pricing for the new joint solution “remains the same” as what Teradici CAS had been, he told ThinkAdvisor.

That means the list price for the graphics processing unit (GPU)-based HP Anyware solution remains at $240 a year, while the solution that doesn’t require a GPU is $120 a year, he said.

“We’re really just providing more value to our joint customer base now by bringing in the best of the HP Remote Boost features,” he noted.

Return to Vegas

This year’s NAB represents Teradici’s “first time back at an in-person event” since the pandemic started and there will be several Teradici and HP “workstation folks all there, and we’re actually jointly going to be demonstrating this in the HP Z workstation booth,” he told MESA.

“That’ll be the first showing of the new joint solution,” he added, pointing out: “Over the past two years, we’ve added so much more to the solution that there’s a lot to see in terms of what’s new in the remote access offering” for NAB attendees.

Industry Trends

Meanwhile, there are “a couple of big industry trends we’re seeing that are driving more adoption and that are encouraging us to invest more in HP Anyware,” he also said.

“Number one is really the move to a Zero Trust architecture. And, especially in the space that we’re in here, IP endpoint security is really critical,” he explained. “We’re seeing much more interest in moving to that Zero Trust architecture and that’s something we are investing in and you’ll see more technology delivered through HP Anyware that focuses on a Zero Trust architecture.”

That is especially important in light of the “hybrid workforce world that we’re all now in [as] people are using different endpoints [and] connecting from all over the world and at home,” he added. “Ensuring that endpoints are trusted, are secure is becoming more and more important.”

Another trend, he said: “We’re seeing more interest in the use of public cloud and the use of edge as well to deliver a remote access experience that doesn’t require you to set up a big data center. The pandemic has kind of caused a lot of organizations to just rethink what their infrastructure needs are in the future and how they can leverage edge data centers or the public cloud or a combination of both. So we’re also seeing that trend kind of come to fruition and we’ll definitely be offering solutions that take advantage of that.”

More HP Anyware Details

“Replacing slow and outdated VPN file transfers, HP Anyware leverages the PCoIP protocol to stream highly interactive desktop displays between hosts and end-user devices, pixel by pixel, so corporate assets can remain securely located in industry-compliant, on-site storage or any public cloud,” Teradici and HP said in a news release.

“We actually started off, in December, by offering the two software packages as a single subscription,” Lammam said, explaining: “We wanted to make it really easy for customers to choose whether to use Teradici or HP’s product right out of the gate while we worked on actually bringing them together.”

HP Anyware is “based on the Teradici CAS product … and we’re bringing the best features of HP’s ZCentral Remote Boost into Teradici CAS” through the integration of the two, he added.

“Teradici CAS has a really wide kind of gamut of platforms that we support,” he went on to say, noting: “We can remote Windows OS, Linux and even macOS, which was a recent addition. We can operate in a virtualized environment, in the public cloud, on physical workstations and so there’s a pretty wide, flexible platform support. And we’re bringing that to the HP user base.”

Meanwhile, “on the other side of the coin, we’re bringing a lot of the really valuable HP ZCentral features into the Teradici space,” he said. “So things like collaboration, user controls and tuning – we’re bringing those over to Teradici CAS. So that’s kind of the better together story here, and we’re excited to bring this to market.”

Despite the HP additions, “existing Teradici CAS customers will find it very familiar because we’re not doing a big overhaul – we’re really just bringing the best of the HP features over into the joint solution,” he noted.

Anyware Features

Whether a company needs to support a hybrid workforce, update its corporate network and infrastructure, support high-performance use cases or make sure that data is never breached, HP Anyware offers deployment flexibility for any kind of organization.

HP Anyware was built on the same technology that won both Teradici and HP Engineering Emmys in 2020, they said, noting it “future-proofs deployments for ever-evolving infrastructure, network, and hybrid workforce demands.”

Teradici and HP said HP Anyware features include:

  • Flexibility to support any host, including standalone or virtualized desktops and workstations, on-prem data centers, edge, cloud, multicloud or hybrid environments running Windows, Linux, or macOS, and any end-user device running Windows, Linux, macOS, Chrome OS, iOS, or Android: PCoIP Zero Clients, PCoIP-Enabled Thin Clients, PC, Mac, Laptops, Tablets, or Integrated Monitors. ​
  • Security: PCoIP traffic secured by AES 256 encryption​ and Multifactor Authentication.
  • Collaboration: Screensharing allows others to join the same session and work together in real time and there is USB webcam support for video conference applications, including Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
  • Productivity: 4K/UHD throughput with multiple monitor support provides a “color-accurate, build-to-lossless, and distortion-free user experience;” A/V Sync offers smooth video playback with synchronized audio; adaptive encoders automatically provide the best possible user experience under changing network conditions; and there is wide peripheral support with low-latency performance, including Wacom pen displays and tablets, 3D mice, game console controllers, webcams and smart card readers.

 HP Anyware also includes Anyware Manager, a connection management plane for IT Administrators to simplify the management of secure user access to desktops.