Microsoft’s latest NVv4 instances in Azure redefines what users and businesses can expect from GPU-accelerated virtualized workstation-class desktops. With the announcement that NVv4 is certified for Siemens NX, manufacturing companies who have Siemens at the heart of their design and engineering operations can feel confident in the extended support and truly consider a move to the cloud.

We are delighted that Teradici Cloud Access Software (CAS), based on PCoIP technology, now supports the Amazon EC2 G4ad family of virtual machines. 

Teradici was founded in 2004 and created a high-performance display protocol called PC-over-IP (PCoIP) for remote desktops and workstations. Solutions based off of the PCoIP protocol deliver the highest levels of security, responsiveness, and fidelity. Teradici’s CAS, which won an Engineering Emmy® from the Television Academy in 2020, powers secure remote solutions with unparalleled performance for even the most graphics-intensive applications. The solution is trusted by leading media companies, design houses, financial firms and government agencies and is deployed to more than 15 million users around the world.

Many schools and colleges rapidly embraced Microsoft® Azure® to enable them to rapidly scale learning and collaboration platforms to address the immediate and urgent needs to get students home-learning as soon as possible.

In these uncertain times, manufacturing firms – large and small - are seeking greater agility from their IT investments. And that’s precisely what the Microsoft Azure Cloud, powered by AMD CPU and GPU technology, can offer them.

With a rapid shift to blended education and both synchronous and asynchronous remote learning, we have seen a surge in demand for AMD-powered Microsoft Azure NVv4 instances within education. These virtual machines are specified with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs to economically support the typical graphical challenges of digitized curriculum delivery.

PTC Creo 3D CAD software has been certified to run on NVv4 instances of Microsoft Azure, an announcement that opens the door to bring the many benefits of virtualization and the Cloud to design and manufacturing.

The predominance of remote work we’re seeing now is more than just a reaction to near-term global challenges. It is actually the acceleration of a trend that has been building momentum for years and has been reflected in a multitude of changes in technology and behavior. Stated simply though, it is the idea that organizations need to provide their end-users with the ability to access the essential digital tools they rely on daily, no matter where they are, using an ever-growing assortment of devices, and often while connecting over unpredictable networks.