Amulet Hotkey DX Series of PCoIP® Zero-clients Achieve VMware Ready™ Status

London, UK 2010-03-19. — Amulet Hotkey, today announced that its current DX series PC-over-IP® (PCoIP®) zero-client products have achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that these Amulet Hotkey PCoIP zero-client products have passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and are now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List.

Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that these Amulet Hotkey PCoIP based products make best use of VMware technology and are ready for deployment in customer environments.

“We are pleased that the current Amulet Hotkey DX series with PCoIP technology qualify for the VMware Ready™ logo, signifying to customers that they have passed specific VMware testing and interoperability criteria and are ready to run in their production environments,” said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliance programs, VMware.

“VMware Ready status for our DX series zero-clients means that the obstacles to adopting a fully back-racked, secure computing environment have completely disappeared. Now, everyone from power users through knowledge workers to administrative staff using virtual workstations, can benefit from the power, superior performance and enhanced security offered by PCoIP technology,” commented Keith Grundon, Technical Director of Amulet Hotkey. “The adoption of the PCoIP technology as the core protocol in View 4 means that the benefits of this technology are now available to the widest range of users. This makes it possible, for the first time, to realize a unified computing architecture throughout the enterprise and, with our comprehensive range of PCoIP products and deep understanding of the PCoIP protocol, Amulet Hotkey is ideally placed to offer this solution.”

“As a well-established vendor to financial institutions worldwide, Amulet continues to provide businesses robust and reliable solutions for mission critical applications.” said Dan Cordingley, president and CEO of Teradici Corporation. “This includes VMware certified zero- clients that feature fiber and serial RS232 network connection options.”

The Amulet Hotkey DX series of PC-over-IP zero-client products include models: DXR-iP, DXR2-iP, DXR4-iP and their fiber equivalents.

The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. With more than 1,300 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

Amulet Hotkey DX series of PCoIP zero-client products can be found within the online VMware Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.

Note: The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

Amulet Hotkey is proud to announce our new range of PC-over-IP® (PCoIP®) based products.

PCoIP is a groundbreaking technology that, in its simplest form, allows you to put your workstations somewhere else. Everything else remains the same. Your basic distributed workstation model, server and LAN architecture does not change. Less change equals less risk.

The benefits of moving workstations away from the workplace to an optimised data centre are significant:

On the Trading Floor
• Solve the challenge of power and cooling
• Streamline MACs while reducing risk
• Minimize downtime
• Reduce latency
• Comply with Disaster Recovery mandates

In the Command and Control Center
• Simplify complex control desks
• Accelerate redundant failover
• Enable effective disaster recovery

Security, Intelligence and Defence Agencies
• Comply totally with data security requirements
• Complete network integrity

TV and Broadcast Studios
• Eliminate noise
• Facilitate rapid studio reconfiguration

If uptime, power, efficiency, and performance matter in your environment, then Amulet Hotkey PCoIP solutions are right for you.

More about PC-over-IP…

The PC-over-IP protocol compresses, encrypts and encodes the entire computing experience using a ‘host’ device at the data center and transmits it 'pixels only' across a standard IP network to a stateless PCoIP-enabled desktop device: a ’portal.’

PC-over-IP technology allows enterprise PCs and workstations to be centrally managed in a data center while providing high resolution, full frame rate 3D graphics and HD media, with full USB peripheral interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency WAN.

PC-over-IP is an innovative display protocol technology that enables the practical consolidation of all IT resources into a data center, eliminates the need for desktop workstations, PCs and thin clients, and delivers an uncompromised user experience to each desk, anywhere, without incurring the security risks associated with transmitting data across a network or having data reside in remote PCs.

PC-over-IP technology resolves the challenges of provisioning, managing, maintaining and securing enterprise desktops, offering a true, uncompromised computing experience for the end-user, while supporting the efficiency and security of centralized computing. TCO is significantly reduced.

More about Amulet Hotkey PC-over-IP solutions…

Amulet Hotkey manufacture the widest range of PC-over-IP based devices. For the datacentre we have PCoIP host cards embedded in powerful blade workstations. PCIe host cards that can be installed in almost any PCIe equipped computer and rack mounted PCoIP host solutions for a variety of mission critical applications.

At the desktop dual and quad-head PCoIP portals offer outstanding long-term, dependable performance that can be relied on 24/7, all year long. 

With over twenty years experience serving the financial, military, security and other mission critical sectors, Amulet Hotkey PC-over-IP solutions are widely recognised as being the best.

PC-over-IP and PCoIP are registered trademarks of Teradici Corp.

The DeTwo series of products will no longer be manufactured after the end of August 2009. No orders for DeTwo products will be taken after the 31st of July 2009.

The Products effected are:

Warranty.
All existing standard and extended warranty agreements will be honoured in full. A two year warranty can be bought at point of purchase between 1st June and 31st August 2009 at 15% of the total product price.
 
If any extended warranties are required on existing products, details of the date of initial purchase must be provided together with serial numbers of all units. If existing warranty or maintenance agreements have already expired please be aware that new agreements will date from the expiry of the old warranty and will be costed ‘pro-rata’ or, will be based on 25% of the value of the original products purchased.

Amulet Hotkey is pleased to announce the availability of our new range of PC-over-IP® products that, in many applications, can be used to replace and improve significantly on the performance of the DeTwo series. You can find out more about these products on this website or by contacting our sales team or by emailing: StepUp@amulethotkey.com