Customer Success: Coretek Teams with IGEL to Transform VDI Deployment for a Defense Contractor

A defense contractor with whom Coretek has had a long-standing relationship had three use cases: knowledge workers, transient users, including field service workers, who utilize a shared workstation and require only lightweight applications, and power users, which represent the primary use case.

The customer wanted to provide seamless access to popular communication and collaboration tools and applications, including Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, and Zoom, on the desktop for all three use cases. They also wanted to customize desktop images with minimal restrictions for power users in different departments, such as supply chain, finance, and IT.

Seeing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a way to achieve both of these objectives, the customer had twice attempted to migrate to VDI with another technology services provider without success. Impressed by Coretek’s success with VDI implementations in healthcare and other industries, the defense contractor turned to the solution provider for assistance.

Coretek standardizes on IGEL OS for new VDI rollouts

Over the years, the Coretek VDI offering has undergone several iterations and has been refined to better support today’s power users. This includes the adoption of IGEL OS as the standard for new customer VDI rollouts.

Ray Jaksic, Chief Operating Officer for Coretek, said, “IGEL has played a crucial role in delivering a seamless digital workspace experience to our customers’ end users. IGEL offers users the flexibility to choose the best form factor for their needs, whether it’s a laptop, a traditional thin client, or their own preferred hardware.”

One of the things that the Coretek team says it appreciates most about IGEL OS is its high level of configurability, as well as IGEL’s commitment to staying current with trends in the EUC space by aligning IGEL OS with a broad ecosystem of leading vendors, including those providing unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications and tools.

Another key selling point is IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™ which supports Zero Trust security approaches and its partnerships with leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendors to complement and re-enforce those solutions.

Brian Barnes, Chief Technology Officer for Coretek, said, “IGEL is an integral part of our on-premises VDI offering that uses Nutanix in combination with Citrix VDI to move Windows off the edge and into the cloud and deliver secure end user access to virtual applications and desktops.”

Read the case study to learn more about how Coretek’s customer benefits from IGEL and its:

• Seamless migration to VDI-based Windows 11
• Support for laptops, thin clients, and BYO hardware
• Native support of leading communication and collaboration platforms
• Support for high-performance graphics accelerated applications
• Simplified endpoint management
• Improved efficiency
• Greater flexibility and scale