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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most established public cloud for the delivery of cloud-hosted applications and desktops. AWS describes itself as “the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.” Its desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering is called Amazon WorkSpaces and it the most broadly consumed DaaS in the world. AWS boasts 5 years of supporting production workloads, tens of thousands of active customers, and hundreds of thousands of active users.

IGEL is a premier technology partner with AWS and vice versa, which means organizations looking to consume Amazon WorkSpaces can rest assured that using IGEL OS on their Amazon WorkSpaces connected endpoints will yield productive, fulfilling user experiences with AWS. IGEL OS supports the latest version of the PCoIP protocol in software which drives the delivery of most AWS-connected desktops. IGEL-powered endpoints include an extra layer of security including the IGEL “complete chain of trust” which validates the firmware and software during the boot process all the way from the device Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to the AWS cloud. And IGEL continues to work closely with AWS to continue to ensure outstanding user experiences with either PCoIP or future virtualized desktop protocols offered by AWS.

Citrix has been a leader in application and desktop virtualization for decades. Citrix was a pioneer in allowing users to access their work from anywhere by virtualizing the desktop experience. With the latest version of their virtual desktop client, Citrix Workspace App, Citrix continues to play a major role in allowing organizations of all sizes to access applications and desktops running in corporate data centers or in the cloud. Citrix offers its customers “a smarter, simpler way to work”, by increasing user productivity and engagement. IGEL OS complements Citrix and the Workspace app as the simple, smart, and secure next-gen endpoint operating system for cloud workspaces. With IGEL OS, endpoint security and user experience are paramount, and the same holds true with Citrix. With four software feature releases per year, IGEL OS continually supports the latest version of the Citrix Workspace App which helps ensure a high-fidelity, fulfilling user experience with the latest enhancements from Citrix and IGEL for those accessing apps and desktops within Citrix environments. With its complete chain of trust to ensure that all processes starting from the UEFI during boot-up are verified for integrity (and starting from the AMD processor on select IGEL endpoint models), IGEL further extends end-to-end security within Citrix environments.

CloudJumper is an independent leader in desktop and application virtualization. CloudJumper’s Cloud Workstation Management Suite (CWMS) was purpose-built for hybrid and multi-cloud digital workspaces.

CloudJumper believes Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is the natural evolution of EUC. The new and upcoming industry trends — 5G bandwidth, new remote work scenarios, the proliferation of ransomware, pandemic health urgencies, new privacy laws, and the changes to Microsoft licensing — are coming together to make WVD the remote desktop of choice.

The CloudJumper simple web UI unlocks the power of WVD to simplify the deployment and management of remote desktops and applications — no PowerShell expertise required. CWMS uses a friendly UI to funnel hundreds of deployment options into a few key questions, then orchestrates your custom environment. With CloudJumper, you are just minutes away from deploying thousands of new WVD VMs and users in Azure.

CMWS features a native REST API to extend the power of WVD into other applications, like ticketing or billing systems, for entity counts, and orchestrate complex business logic into simple tasks.

CloudJumper’s Cloud Workstation Management Suite (CWMS) and IGEL’s Universal Management Suite (UMS) are complementary control planes. CWMS handles the provisioning and management of Windows Virtual Desktop, while UMS handles the provisioning and management of IGEL endpoints.

CloudJumper is a Microsoft Preferred WVD ISV. We have 20 years of experience delivering cloud-hosted virtual desktops and applications to thousands of customers across multiple clouds. CloudJumper empowers Enterprise customers and MSPs with the EUC tools they need to develop world-class remote desktop and application offerings to their SMB customers.

DXC Technology’s Virtual Desktop and Applications Services (VDA) provide virtualized Linux or Microsoft Windows applications and desktops in secure data centers or cloud environments. This gives users flexible and secure work locations and device options, and enables secure bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs. DXC VDA services bundle user assessment, solution design, implementation and ongoing management into a monthly, per-user price.

DXC VDA decreases user support and management costs while significantly increasing data security by moving data off user devices and into the data center.

On the endpoints, IGEL is used on PCs to provide a rock solid, stable, secure and high-performance OS tuned to deliver end-user productivity – eliminating the security and management challenges that Windows brings.  The IGEL devices support DXC’s end user experience and proactive support tools.

Ericom Software is a leading provider of Zero Trust secure access solutions that protect organizations from advanced cybersecurity threats. Leveraging innovative isolation technology and software-defined perimeter principles, Ericom solutions enable simple, secure policy-driven access to mission-critical cloud and on-premises business systems and resources, including the public Internet, without impacting end-user productivity.

Thousands of companies rely on Ericom’s platform of remote access, secure connectivity, isolation, mobility and virtualization technologies to enhance their cybersecurity and productivity while reducing complexity and cost. The company is an active member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), has offices in the US, UK, and EMEA, and a global network of distributors and partners.

Founded in late 2004 in Barcelona, Fluendo was committed to provide a legal solution for multimedia playback through an Open and cross-platform framework: GStreamer. For more than fifteen years, Fluendo has always been at the forefront of building legal multimedia products. In 2005, Fluendo signed a formal agreement with the most relevant patent holders in the market: MPEGLA, Microsoft, VIA Licensing, Technicolor & Dolby.

Since then, Fluendo has been one of the few multimedia companies worldwide to provide a complete set of codecs for audio and video, with its corresponding patent licenses ready for distribution.
Our partnership with IGEL, born as an opportunity, to enable an enriching multimedia experience, facilitating multimedia playback in local as well as in virtual environments. Fluendo Codec Pack, offers a custom package for enterprise purposes that can be easily embedded by OEMs to into their platforms/devices (Thin Clients, PC, laptops, set-top-boxes…) in order to enhance their multimedia content playback.

Lakeside Software helps IT teams regain the visibility and control needed to design and support productive digital workspaces. Lakeside’s SysTrack digital experience monitoring solution gathers usage and performance data at the endpoint, enabling greater understanding of how IT actions affect end-user experience. With this understanding, organizations can drive down IT costs by eliminating unused hardware and software and improving productivity. SysTrack also offers AIOps intelligence and automated sensors that cut through the noise to deliver the insights IT needs to take meaningful action.

Lakeside provides assessment capabilities for Windows Virtual Desktop as well as IGEL thin clients. Through Lakeside assessments, IT can understand which desktops and users are a good fit for transformation and plan for a successful deployment.

Together, Lakeside and IGEL help simplify endpoint management. Baked into IGEL OS, SysTrack delivers telemetry on IGEL endpoints to help IT diagnose the root cause of problems and plan steps toward resolution. The SysTrack Virtual Channel for IGEL OS provides visibility into metrics such as CPU, memory, disk usage, peripheral devices, network performance, and latency directly from your IGEL OS-powered endpoints. SysTrack then ties that usage data to times when the user was in active sessions and presents you with endpoint telemetry you can use to monitor and optimize your environment. The result is a quantifiable end-user experience—from endpoint to data center—that you can track, evaluate and improve.

LG Electronics has been on the forefront of modern technology for more than 20 years. In compliance with the company’s motto, “Life’s Good”, LG is driving technical development forward in all areas to improve our daily lives. The award-winning display solutions, for example, are aimed at professional and private users alike. With its brand-new cloud monitors, LG marries the brilliant picture quality and colour accuracy of IPS panels with the requirements of the modern working world. In order to offer a great deal of flexibility, LG partners with IGEL and offers full compatibility with IGEL OS on all of its cloud devices – from its 24”, 27”, 34” or 38” all-in-one thin clients to its box-type clients. Thus, LG makes its contribution to the digitalization of the workplace and supports companies worldwide on their way into the future – because “Life’s Good”.

The combination of IGEL and Liquidware can make the adoption of cloud-sourced user workspaces not just easy for IT, but seamless and “invisible” to users. IGEL makes it easy to convert existing Windows endpoint devices to IGEL OS, and Liquidware gives IT staff a clear understanding of user experiences across the enterprise with quick feedback to enhance those experiences. With IGEL and Liquidware, your move to cloud workspaces will reap positive rewards not just for your IT team, but for your end-users as well. With comprehensive monitoring of the endpoint, joint IGEL/Liquidware customers get a complete end-to-end user experience score with Stratusphere UX and IGEL. You can find the Stratusphere UX Connector ID agent included in the IGEL OS firmware under “accessories,” making it easy to activate and get started knowing your organization’s user experience metrics today.

Liquidware’s Adaptive Workspace Management suite is especially complementary to the IGEL OS and works across all Windows delivery methods. The suite includes Stratusphere UX monitoring and diagnostics, ProfileUnity user environment management, and FlexApp dynamic application delivery. These Liquidware solutions are fully compatible when accessing Windows workspaces with IGEL OS. IGEL and Liquidware have worked closely to develop a custom monitoring agent that is purpose-built for IGEL OS and gathers user experience metrics from the IGEL-powered endpoint, be it any x86 compatible repurposed PC or thin client.

Login VSI maximizes the end-user computing experience on all IGEL OS-powered endpoints. Automatically testing and validating the impact of change in any physical, virtual and cloud-based workspaces, Login Enterprise ensures application and desktop performance.

The combined solution enables IT organizations to leverage their IGEL infrastructure to continuously test the performance and availability of virtual and cloud workspaces. The combination of IGEL and Login VSI enables customers to gain a holistic view of productivity resources 24x7x365, giving them visibility into performance and availability changes. Customers can now visualize performance degradation and proactively address issues before they impact the business – saving the enterprise time and money.

The Login Enterprise Launcher in IGEL OS 11.03 and greater can be accessed by the Login Enterprise Virtual Appliance and then activated using Jobs to schedule virtual user sessions to run to collect performance and availability information. From start to finish, it only takes a few minutes to fully configure the Launcher which can then be deployed remotely for quick tests to watch for changes that may impact SLAs.

Enhance your end-user experience with IGEL OS and Login VSI

• Centralized endpoint management lowers cost (TCO) and enhances control and security
• IGEL makes the roll-out and management of distributed endpoints, 10 to 100,000 easy
• IGEL makes end-user computing environments more secure, manageable and cost-effective
• Login VSI helps to build and protect a good user experience in VDI
• Login VSI helps to optimize the performance, availability, and scalability of VDI

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. As a key player in the delivery of virtualized apps, desktops, and cloud workspaces via virtual desktop protocols and the Azure cloud, Microsoft is a key strategic IGEL partner. With the Azure cloud delivering a suite of services including Office 365 and now Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), Microsoft is poised to assume a leading position in the delivery of Windows and the Office suite of applications in a whole new way, as an entirely cloud-based subscription. Windows Virtual Desktop WVD represents a key historical inflection point in how organizations enable their people to work. By making it easy for organizations to move Windows off of user endpoint devices and have Windows delivered from the Azure cloud as a recurring subscription expense, IT organizations can shed the huge burden of imaging, updating, patching, and managing hundreds or many thousands of Windows devices. This is good for Microsoft as well as its customers, since Windows will be easier than ever to use, and IT teams will shed a costly and time-consuming recurring task. And as a short-term tactical factor, migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10 can be as easy as replacing Windows on end user devices with IGEL OS and transitioning Windows 7 licenses to Windows 10 WVD subscriptions. IGEL OS was the first Linux-based endpoint operating system certified with WVD. With IGEL OS, IGEL offers WVD subscribers get an ideal next-gen edge OS that is super easy to load, install, and manage from a central console. IGEL OS is platform independent and can be installed in minutes on any x86 compatible device. The legendary ease of use of the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) software complements the extreme simplicity of a recurring WVD subscription. Users get the same access and experience they are used to with all their familiar Windows apps, and IT teams will be thrilled with how little time and worry they will need to spend on securing and managing their user endpoint devices. At IGEL, we claim that using IGEL OS with WVD can allow you to “fall in love with Windows again”, and we’ve built a dedicated micro-site that explains the many reasons why at https://www.igel.com/page/win10/migrate/. You can learn more about Windows Virtual Desktop at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/.

Nerdio empowers IT Professionals to deploy, manage, and auto-scale Windows Virtual Desktop. Created to address the technical and security requirements of enterprise customers, Nerdio Manager for WVD is ideal for IT Professionals looking to deploy and manage large WVD environments and can be connected to an existing WVD setup or used to stand up a new WVD deployment. Nerdio Manager is an all-PaaS Azure application that runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription, making it one of the most secure and compliant solutions on the market. 

Easily automate and manage large WVD deployments in just a few clicks. Nerdio Manager for WVD can be used to create a new WVD environment or layered on top of existing WVD deployments non-disruptively and with zero vendor lock-in. With named and concurrent user pricing models, Nerdio Manager for WVD is the lowest cost and most powerful solution available. 

Nerdio Manager for WVD features include: 

·         Simple, automated, and guided deployment
·         Seamless integration into existing deployments 
·         Intuitive user and session management
·         Complete session host management
·         Unified desktop image creation and management 
·         Usage and performance monitoring
·         Built in FSLogix profile management
·         Admin event notifications
·         Advanced schedule and event-based auto-scaling
·         Desktop image and host backup versioning
·         Role-based WVD tenant management
·         Complete, trackable audit trail 

Nerdio is the perfect accompaniment to any IGEL installation. Stay tuned for even deeper integration between the two products coming soon. 

Sign up for your free 30-day trial for Nerdio Manager for WVD and start deploying and Managing WVD now. 

PrinterLogic helps IT professionals eliminate all print servers and deliver a highly available serverless printing infrastructure. With PrinterLogic’s centrally managed direct IP printing platform, customers empower their end-users with mobile printing, secure release printing, and many advanced features that legacy print management applications can’t provide.

PrinterLogic’s centrally managed direct IP printing solution can be configured on any IGEL OS-powered endpoint. This integration allows users to install direct IP printers on IGEL users’ endpoint devices so that print jobs are sent directly from the endpoint device to the printer, easing overall printer management in addition to increasing end-user productivity.

Tehama partners with IGEL to complete “chain of trust” for the global workforce by delivering a virtual office as a service platform with IGEL’s next-gen edge OS.

With the Tehama Service Delivery Platform and an IGEL-enabled device, we have created a single-entry point to enhance time to value with unparalleled security when compared against your traditional desktop or today’s traditional VDI solution deployments for the enterprise.

Inside of your Virtual Office are scalable Tehama Virtual Rooms that can be configured and ready to deploy with Windows and Linux desktops within minutes. All while skipping the weeks of deployment, configuration, or planning for traditional VDI or DaaS. With IGEL and Tehama, enterprises benefit from a secure end-user computing experience on-demand in minutes. The output of Tehama + IGEL is a safe, cost-effective end-user computing solution that leads to faster time to value and massive savings on time and money.

Benefits:

• Available on-demand—no licensing fees

• Deploy a global workforce or remote team in minutes and instantly scale up or down.

• Secure Zero-Trust Access Model

• Audit and compliance features built into the platform

As enterprises look for solutions to help them support remote teams and secure access to valuable intellectual property and data, they are turning to ultra-secure, high-performance remote visualization solutions from Teradici. Teradici is the creator of industry-leading PCoIP® technology and Cloud Access Software, a solution to deliver high-performance virtual workstations from any cloud or data center to any device.

Available today on the IGEL family of Thin Clients is the Teradici PCoIP Software Client for Linux. With the PCoIP Software Client, IGEL Thin Client users will be able to connect to Teradici Cloud Access Software and to Amazon Workspaces, a cloud desktop service that uses PCoIP protocol technology. With a subscription to Teradici Cloud Access, IGEL customers will be able to connect to virtual workstations on any cloud or private data center, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

PCoIP is a trusted remote display protocol that compresses, encrypts and transmits only pixels from public clouds or private data centers to the end user’s display, providing a highly secure enterprise environment, while maintaining lossless image reproduction and performance. It uses advanced display compression to provide end users access to on-premises or cloud-based virtual machines as an alternative to local computers.

Together, Teradici and IGEL enable secure, optimized performance within virtualized and cloud workspace environments. Learn more at www.teradici.com and www.youtube.com/user/TeradiciLabs

IGEL and ThinPrint have been partners in the EUC space for two decades driving value for Citrix, VMware, Microsoft RDS, Parallels customers and most recently as co-launch partners for Windows Virtual Desktop.

Networks are becoming more complex and heterogeneous and end devices more differentiated – whether remote and virtual desktops, PCs, Macs, iOS or Android devices, Chromebooks, thin or zero clients, branch offices, home workstations, whether cloud or on-premises. What remains is the need and wish to print from all these workstations.

ThinPrint, an expert in enterprise printing solutions for 20 years, always has the right technology on hand for secure, high-performance printing that seamlessly combines with a perfect user experience. ThinPrint’s solutions support all printing innovations, thereby helping to complete and implement advanced technology that ranges from innovative end devices to printers.

The core focus of the solutions is always simple print infrastructure administration, network performance optimization and user satisfaction. 30,000 corporate customers across all industries and regions as well as more than 100 desktop as a service, and software as a service providers rely on printing solutions from ThinPrint.

To complement its cloud portfolio, ThinPrint acquired ezeep and its native cloud technology in 2015. ezeep has now grown to become the leading printing solution for coworking and shared spaces.

ThinPrint’s solutions are available globally through a network of more than 350 channel partners, providing local presence and support for customers.

VMware is the leading provider of server, desktop, and application virtualization software. From hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and software in the data center to the Horizon 7 virtual desktop client, VMware plays a dominant end-to-end role within virtualized environments for enterprises and cloud service providers. With the latest version of their Horizon 7 virtual desktop client, VMware continues to enable organizations of all sizes to access applications and desktops running in corporate data centers or in the cloud. Per VMware their virtualization and Horizon 7 customers enjoy “unprecedented simplicity, flexibility, speed and scale – all at lower costs.”.

IGEL OS complements VMware and Horizon 7 as the simple, smart, and secure next-gen endpoint operating system for cloud workspaces. With IGEL OS, endpoint security and user experience are paramount, and the same holds true with VMware. With four software feature releases per year, IGEL OS continually supports the latest version of the VMware horizon client which helps ensure a high-fidelity, fulfilling user experience with the latest enhancements from VMware and IGEL for those accessing apps and desktops within VMware lenvironments. With its complete chain of trust to ensure that all processes starting from the UEFI during boot-up are verified for integrity (and starting from the AMD processor on select IGEL endpoint models), IGEL further extends end-to-end security within VMware environments.