PCoIP Shines in Both Virtual Desktop and Cloud Environments

Looking back at this very busy month, NCS executives spent a significant amount of time at government agencies, military bases, hospitals, at commercial establishments and participating at trade shows, promoting the ins-and-outs of desktop virtualization. At each stop we continue to find strong interest in PCoIP technology and in NCS zero client solutions, and curiosity about how they measure up against thin clients from the major PC brands.

These customers are becoming more aware every day that thin clients used for virtualization come with significant disadvanges. As they become experienced with thin clients, they are turned off that they are complex to administer. Thin clients often include a small hard drive, an embedded operating system and some memory. They are complex and expensive to use over the long run.  

PCoIP zero clients, in contrast, use an integrated purpose-built processor (from Teradici) that does image decompression and decoding, transmitting pixels instead of data. A zero client PC does not need a general purpose CPU, local storage or an application operating system. PCoIP zero clients are secure and easy to manage and deliver low cost of ownership.

VMware User Group USERCON, Milwaukee

NCS actively engages with VMware users, especially at the many User Group UserCons scheduled around the country every couple of weeks. This week NCS is at the 8th annual Wisconsin VMUG UserCon in Milwaukee. At this event users explore how zero clients fit into their desktop virtualization strategies. Hot topics of discussion include improving manageability, driving down cost of ownership and improving security. We had one of the most active tables in the meeting hall!

DOT Cybersecurity Summit 2017

Wednesday is Day Two at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Cybersecurity Summit 2017, DOT Headquarters, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, D.C. NCS Technologies is an important supplier of security solutions to the military, intelligence and other civilian government agencies. Please stop by the NCS booth and talk to Lauren Mayoral, an expert of civilian agency IT issues. All government agency employees and contractors are invited to participate at this important event.

There are many critical components to IT security, starting with the filtering done by the service provider and extending to the robust security infrastructure provided at the data center. Continuing this philosophy of "security through layers of defense", the next security peremeter after the data center is the desk top or end user. Today at the show NCS is promoting the Cirrus family of virtual zero client end point devices which focus on strong security at the desk top or end user level.

Zero client virtual desktops and laptops are recognized at the best security at the end user level. Instead of continually implementing patches and updates, users of zero clients have security peace of mind because they benefit from AES-256 encryption and because there is no hard drive or local storage to attack, no OS to infect, no persistent user data to steal and no antivirus software needed.

NCS zero client end points lead the industry in innovation, ease of use and low cost of ownership. NCS solutions rely on the PCoIP protocol, which compresses, encrypts and encodes the entire computing experience at the data center. Information is transmitted as pixels across the IP network to the end points. Users have a high performance, fully-functional computing experience - even with HD. VMware is our virtualization platform of choice. This platform improves the availability, performance and utilization of IT resources. NCS zero clients are also optimized for Amazon Workspaces and Microsoft Azure cloud environments. 

VMware User Group Expo, Denver

Today we are happy to share that many Denver area VMware users are stopping by the NCS booth at the VMware User Group - Denver, to learn how zero clients can fit into their desktop virtualization strategies. Nearly everyone is looking to learn more about improving manageability, cost of ownership and security. 

NCS is active at most VMUG events around the country and our table is usually one of the most heavily visited.

 NCS zero client end points lead the industry in innovation, ease of use and low cost of ownership. NCS solutions rely on the PCoIP protocol, which compresses, encrypts and encodes the entire computing experience at the data center. Information is transmitted as pixels across the IP network to the end points. Users have a high performance, fully-functional computing experience - even with HD. VMware is our virtualization platform of choice. This platform improves the availability, peformance and utilization of IT resources. NCS zero clients are also optimized for Amazon Workspaces and Microsoft Azure cloud environments. 

We are publishing a new marketing campaign for end-to-end VDI. When searching key words or phrases such as VDI solution or zero client in Google, you may be directed to a broad index of historical NCS VDI content found on the web, and in addition you may see a prominent Google ad headline that reads: " Low cost end-to-end VDI - Simple and Scalable". 

Our message is simple. We can reduce the time required to implement a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution by using a NCS purpose built and optimized end-to-end solution that delivers simplicity, scalability and savings. NCS turn-key VDI appliances are designed using Intel's latest generation, Broadwell-EP processor-based servers running Microsoft Windows in a VMware hypervisor environment - the perfect solution for desktop virtualization. NCS turnkey VDI appliance solutions are comprehensive and include all three elements (storage, compute & network), software and services, and endpoints, to make it easy and convenient to implement. With a suite of hardware and software complemented by quality services, our customers can quickly migrate their user base to virtual desktop environment with a minimum of disruption.

In managing the data center, IT administrators constantly confront issues of complexity and how to best manage legacy equipment and software in the most efficient manner. A new generation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions is proving effective in addressing data center infrastructure complexity, while lowering costs and improving reliability.

Today we launch the latest version of our website, where you will more easily identify our computer industry expertise and explore the many ways we can help you meet IT challenges. NCS Technologies is well known to government customers as innovative and reliable. We have been a trusted partner to civilian agencies, the military and the intelligence community for more than two decades. In addition, enterprise customers in security, healthcare and financial services also rely on our computing products and integration expertise. Organizations in North America, Europe and Asia routinely come to us to help implement end point virtualization solutions, both desktop and mobile. We are emerging as a leader in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) space.

Think of us as expert designers, manufacturers and also partners. NCS has a long history of manufacturing high performance NCS-branded x86 desktops and workstations. NCS branded PCs and servers are in use with government agencies around the world. But NCS is also a close partner to the world's Tier 1 IT vendors.

Our Appliance & Server Engineering line of business is widely admired by software vendors and large integrators. All of this computing expertise is centered in our manufacturing and corporate campus in Gainesville, VA, just outside the Washington beltway. 

You likely already know that NCS Technologies is an industry leader in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and virtual end points. NCS has a long history of manufacturing high performance NCS-branded x86 desktops and workstations. And our Appliance & Server Engineering line of business is widely admired by software vendors and large integrators. All of this expertise is centered in our manufacturing and corporate campus in Gainesville, VA, just outside the Washington beltway. 

In reviewing industry literature on data center modernization and service delivery to end points, many customers are concerned about the sheer complexity of managing legacy equipment and software from multiple vendors and different generations. Many IT administrators now strongly consider virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in an effort to reduce data center infrastructure complexity, while lowering costs and improving reliability.

As enterprises expand their use of VDI, IT administrators seek to improve reliability and network performance, and reduce complexity and costs.