re: RDP Performance Improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

MattMcSpirit — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:33:16 GMT

Great point Adam.

Ericom provide great value add to Microsoft technologies such as TS, RDS, and around VDI, along with, as you rightly state, regular physical machines too.

As you say, not everyone is ready for 2008 R2, and if that's not on the roadmap (or even if it is!), there are some great enhancements that Ericom provide.

Matt

re: RDP Performance Improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Adam — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:11:30 GMT

It's true that RDP 7 does provide improved user experience and performance compared to previous versions of RDP. However, it's possible to improve video and graphics performance even further (by about 2-5 times better than RDP 7 alone) with a solution called Ericom Blaze.

Ericom Blaze is a software-based RDP acceleration AND compression product that provides a superior end-user experience over WAN and congested LANs. Besides delivering higher frame rates and reducing screen freezes and choppiness, Ericom Blaze accelerates RDP 7 performance by up to 2-5 times (and up to 10-25 times for earlier versions of RDP), while significantly reducing network bandwidth consumption over low-bandwidth/high latency connections.

Also, don't forget that to get the benefit of RDP 7 you need to upgrade all your hosts to Windows Server 2008 R2. If you are not ready to do that, and still want performance improvements in RDP, you can still use Blaze.

Ericom Blaze works with any standard RDP host, including VDI, Terminal Servers and remote physical machines.

You can read more about Blaze and download a free evaluation at:

http://www.ericom.com/ericom_blaze.asp?URL_ID=708

Or view a video demo at:

http://www.ericom.com/blaze_youtube.asp?URL_ID=708

Adam