![]() ![]() However, HP is determined to change that and as part of that effort – they have rebranded RGS as HP ZCentral Remote Boost, part of a solution suite of HP hardware and software pulled together under the HP ZCentral umbrella. Yes, many people in energy, media, engineering, and other verticals have been using it, but for the most part, it really hasn’t gotten the visibility that it deserves. It has been one of the industry’s best-kept secrets for the past 17 years, and a critical infrastructure mainstay for those HP customers in the know. To accomplish this, they developed HP Remote Workstations Software, which over time evolved to HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) and today’s current incarnation ZCentral Remote Boost 2020. If the Receiver can contact the Sender system over the network, the compute resources can be fully remoted even in a WAN environment when VPNs are present.īack in 2003, HP realized a need to extend a computer’s keyboard, mouse, and video across miles or hundreds of miles. Users can access their workstation regardless if it resides in a data center, data closet, or even at the desk where the user used to be located. Power users, on the other hand, tend to use the full resources of a workstation and any overprovisioning of a workstation’s resources can be detrimental to a worker’s efficiency. ZCentral is geared towards users that need the full power of a workstation rather than a task worker who only needs to run an application or two from a VM. Although it can be used on VMs, by designing it this way, it makes it simple to set up and maintain a ZCentral VDI environment. Remote Boost is an interesting play on the current VDI paradigm, as it has been designed for use with physical workstations rather than virtual machines (VM). We will have more to say about ZCentral Connect later, but let’s first focus on Remote Boost. Having a single vendor can eliminate finger-pointing and lead quicker resolution of problems, if they occur. The entire VDI stack has been designed from the ground up, and perhaps more importantly supported by HP. With ZCentral Connect, HP has become the only IT company that is the single product line source for all the hardware and software for a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment. ZCentral is more than Remote Boost, as HP recently released ZCentral Connect, a light-weight connection manager geared specifically for ZCentral Remote Boost. ZCentral Remote Boost can also be used on other physical or virtual x86 systems at a very reasonable cost and HP has a 60-day trial offering that allows you to evaluate it on any system. What many people don’t realize is that HP’s remote connection software, HP ZCentral Remote Boost (previously branded as HP Remote Graphics Software – RGS), is included, license-free, with all HP Z Workstations, HP ZBooks, and HP VR Backpacks–and you have the right to use it. However, VDI isn’t about the backend computer, it’s about displaying a computer (either physical or virtual) video, audio and peripherals to a remote user over the network and remote users expecting the same experience as they had with a local system.Ī highly respected leader in the IT industry and an innovator and leader in the VDI field is HP. When people think of VDI, they often think of virtual machines and the big players, namely VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft. Fortunately, for the past two decades, we have been developing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to enable this transformation. We are going through a transformational change in the workplace and working from home (WFH) is no longer an option or a “nice to have.” It is a requirement. ![]()
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