Several companies announced their new partnerships with virtualization giant VMware today, including Cisco and Mitel. The latest one is Teradici, which is also deeply involved with the VDI market and just launched a new server offloading card designed for such environments.

The Teradici APEX 2800 card comes equipped with PCoIP zero clients and VMware View clients, in addition to offering support for vSphere and View versions 4.6 or later.  It works by offloading the 65 most active displays from a server in order to create “virtual CPU headroom” that minimizes the impact on usability. Teradici claims that its new product can deliver a high level of consistency while reducing peak server utilization by up to 50 percent.

“The APEX 2800 PCoIP server offload card is the first card on the market for VMware View™ deployments with the ability to dynamically and seamlessly offload the most active 64 displays,” said Trent Punnett, vice president of marketing, Teradici. “We received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback from beta testers and are excited to announce its general availability. The server offload card ensures the success of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments by protecting and ensuring a consistent end user experience even during peak usage time.”

The 2800 is priced at $1,995-1,999.

We last mentioned Teradici at CES 2012. The VDI company was busy making partnerships back then as well, sharing a booth with chipmaker Texas Instruments.  That particular demo also centered on VMware virtualization technology. The two firms showcased how Teradici’s PCoIP protocol performs on a Texas Instruments OMAP4460 mobile chip when running VMware View – the result was quite desirable based on an internal observation.  It also provided yet another boost to VMware’s  ecosystem overall, amplified by the recent integration with EMC VFCache.