Gulfeagle Supply Leverages VMware View(TM) with Ericom Blaze(TM) to Provide Superior User Experience over WAN
By Ericom Software, PRNEMonday, September 20, 2010
Deploying Ericom Blaze software with VMware View improves display performance of Flash-based video streaming to thin clients
CLOSTER, New Jersey, September 21, 2010 - Ericom Software, a leading global provider of remote access and desktop
virtualization solutions today announced that Gulfeagle Supply, a distributor
of residential and commercial roofing and building products, dramatically
improved the virtual desktop user experience and reduced bandwidth
consumption by deploying Ericom Blaze along with VMware View. "Employees are
responding very positively to Ericom Blaze's accelerated connectivity and
great user interface (www.EricomBlaze.com)," said Preston Rodriguez,
network administrator at Gulfeagle Supply.
With over 50 locations to support, Gulfeagle selected VMware View as a
desktop virtualization solution along with thin clients to streamline the
management and user-experience of its branch employees. Employees require
remote access to a wide range of business apps, including Flash-based
training videos that are streamed to thin clients. Due to bandwidth
constraints, Gulfeagle didn't find VMware View's PCoIP display protocol to be
suitable for their low bandwidth and high latency network. They looked for an
alternative and the best available solution was Ericom Blaze, a
software-based RDP acceleration solution.
Ericom Global VP Marketing, Ilan Paretsky, commented "We are delighted
that Gulfeagle implemented Ericom Blaze, which has significantly improved
their end-user experience with VMware View and the bandwidth usage. Ericom
Blaze is specifically designed for WAN and high latency / low bandwidth
scenarios and thus perfectly complements VMware View deployments."
"We wanted a complete desktop management solution to improve efficiencies
and lower operating costs down the road," said Preston Rodriguez. "The
combined VMware-Ericom Blaze approach allows us to get the best out of VMware
View in terms of reducing new desktop provisioning times, improving
manageability and security, at the same time as providing faster connectivity
and a great user experience."
Ericom Blaze
Ericom Blaze is a software-based RDP acceleration and compression product
that provides improved performance over WANs. Besides delivering higher frame
rates and reducing screen freezes and choppiness, Blaze accelerates RDP
performance by up to 10-25 times, while significantly reducing network
bandwidth consumption over low-bandwidth/high latency connections.
Deploying Ericom Blaze with VMware View is a small step for organizations
to take to achieve great performance at little cost for companies like
Gulfeagle, who want to deliver secure, centrally managed access to Virtual
desktops (VDI) from either thin clients or PCs. Ericom Blaze:
-- Delivers a PC like experience to remote users using PDF, Graphics and Flash -- As a software-only solution, Ericom Blaze eliminates the need for expensive hardware acceleration -- Speeds up RDP-based access for remote workers and home workers -- Suitable for LAN, WLAN, GPRS, 3G, ADSL and others -- Supports WS2003, WS2008, WS2008 R2, XP, Vista, Windows7, Linux, CE, MAC -- Supports PC's and thin clients.
For more information on Ericom Blaze, or to download a product evaluation
or live product demo, visit: www.EricomBlaze.com
About Ericom
Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Application Access and
Virtualization Solutions. Since 1993, Ericom has been helping users access
enterprise business-critical applications running on a broad range of Remote
Desktop Services (formerly Terminal Servers), Virtual Desktops, legacy hosts
and other systems. With offices in the US, UK, EMEA, India and China, Ericom
also has an extensive worldwide network of distributors and partners. Our
expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 7 million
installations. For more information about Ericom and its products, please
visit: www.ericom.com
Ericom US Contact Ilan Paretsky ilan.paretsky@ericom.com +1-201-767-2210 x9718
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