While the demand for applications is increasing, organizations are choosing to deploy a variety of platforms that bring together a hybrid mix of on-premises, virtual, and cloud-based workspaces in their environments. Whereas users expect more flexibility to work when and where they prefer, on their endpoint devices of choice with applications that ‘just work’.

This shift towards cloud-based workspaces promotes a SaaS approach to deploy applications, which combines a number of components to provide expanded functionality as a service. Therefore, it has become vital to deploy tools that allow organizations to not only get an inventory of their used applications but also to understand how they are being deployed and used in their environments.

Stratusphere UX monitors application performance by providing detailed metrics and diagnostics data that reveal blind spots to support IT teams and CIOs in making data-driven decisions.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Jaime Reynolds

IGEL has been working hard to make onboarding IGEL OS users in the field very easy. With the release of the IGEL Cloud Gateway (ICG), this has already been a reality for many years. Let me explain to you what is needed to make a very smooth onboarding of remote users and actually get them productive within minutes from the first power on of their IGEL OS endpoint.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Patrick Toner
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

Make Zoom Virtual Background on Linux available with Citrix, VMware Horizon, and AVD (WVD) when you don't have the supported hardware in place.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney

In this webinar, Sebastian Perusat will walk you through understanding the IGEL UMS’ filesystem. You will learn where key files, such as certificates and the embedded database, are stored. How to files are shared with the IGEL OS much more.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Co-Host: Sebastian Perusat

Hello everyone, I had a recent case where a customer wanted his Bluetooth headset to automatically be in HSP (Headset Profile) mode. By default, IGEL OS seems to connect Bluetooth headsets in A2DP mode (suitable for high-quality audio but no mic input).

However, it's possible to run a command to switch to headset mode. 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat

• Your user is connected via WIFI and is complaining everything is slow. How strong/good is the WIFI Signal of the remote endpoint?
• Your user is not able to access a resource and you to debug is. What is his Public IP?
• Your user is complaining that his connection is slow. You would be happy to do a quick Speed test. How is his Download speed on her/his side?
• The user needs to access a server but can't. Could you check automatically if the server is reachable from the endpoint?

Well, for all of these questions, they are Linux commands you could issue in a Remote Terminal, Terminal, SSH but how handy would it be to get that information back to UMS every time the device boots? I created a few Profiles writing that information back to UMS using the UMS Structure Tag. 

Host:  Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat

If you tried to acquire new corporate laptops recently, or even looked at buying a new car, you’ve likely experienced the effect of the global chip shortage. With most experts including Intel anticipating chip shortages to continue through 2023, it may be time to consider new options to power your end user computing needs.

Fortunately, you don’t have to look far! In fact, you likely already have what you need to deliver a high-performance, productive experience for your employees. Just add IGEL.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

• 00:00 Introduction
• 03:40 Create Active Directory Login Profile
• 06:15 Test Active Directory Connection
• 08:00 Configure Session Passthrough
• 09:30 Configure the screenlock
• 11:20 Configure a Local user for Emergency
• 13:30 Check if your user is working actually

Host:  Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Co-Host: Seb

The IGEL Community is where you learn, share, and engage with like-minded customers, partners, and EUC industry experts.

You will have the ability to collaborate with others, interact with IGEL enthusiasts who are more than willing to help, get answers to your questions in minutes, brainstorm ideas, build relationships that will last you a lifetime, and so much more!

Today the IGEL Community is 7,300+ members strong, who together have shared over 270,000+ messages.  

Join the IGEL Community today and get help supporting IGEL OS, UMS, ICG, and all IGEL software and Thin Clients solutions!

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

While hybrid and remote workforces offer numerous benefits, they can make it challenging for IT teams to manage security. If businesses want to have productive hybrid workforces, they need secure digital workspaces that support all employees.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Another term that you have probably come across is virtual desktop infrastructure. If you already have a VDI solution, does this mean you have a digital workspace?

Given how confusing the terminology is, this is a very reasonable question to ask, so let’s look at what the two things are and whether they do, indeed, serve the same purpose.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

Joseph Masone, asked the question: 

"Aside from modifying hosts files, is there a way to allow only a list of URLs we designate via the Firefox browser? We tried setting up a local HTTP proxy. However, that can be bypassed by simply typing HTTPS in the URL. We also tried restricting all the navigation menus/toolbars; however, one of the sites we need to allow access to has links that can leverage to access other unwanted sites."

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner

How to configure, set up, and use the IGEL OS command line (CLI) from the IGEL OS desktop and IGEL UMS. 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 00:00 Introduction 
• 02:30 Assign a setting
• 02:55 Status Bar of commands
• 03:30 Not retrieved settings (next reboot a.e.)
• 04:00 Check the local config in UMS
• 05:45 Check the local config in IGEL OS
• 06:30 What when who assigned it
• 08:40 Create a view for pending configurations
• 09:20 Check which UMS holds the device
• 09:20 Check which UMS holds the device
• 10:30 Check which UMS holds the device in IGEL OS

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Co-Host: Seb Perusat

Whether you're focused on security, device management, hybrid work, EUC, or workspace transformation, IGEL Weekly delivers practical insight without the fluff.

New episodes weekly-ish.

The benefits?

• A more immersive and fulfilling student computing experience
• More secure and protected computing assets and operation
• Improved staff and student productivity
• Enhanced connection for centers of learning
• Delivery of customized digital workspaces on demand

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat

We’ve got to the stage where we no longer labor under the misapprehension that we, or the businesses we use will never be hacked. Instead, we’re into the era of damage limitation. If sensitive information is stolen, the strategy is to make it as difficult as possible to get anything useful from it via encryption, or by keeping key parts of the data separate.

There’s another type of attack though, which is much more insidious. It’s one that doesn’t aim to steal any data. Instead, is about pure blackmail. And it’s on the rise.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

We look at the pandemic and the impact it is had on the environment and how remote working is a key driver in reducing emissions.

We also investigate how EUC has a major impact on emissions and is responsible for 1% of Global emissions which is on a par with the airline industry which I thought was a shocking statistic.

The study confirms that enterprises continue to spend needless dollars and use precious IT time, loading up their hardware endpoint devices with up to a dozen pieces of software – and required agents – before the end user can even work productively with the device. It also confirms some of this software spend never even makes it to the desktop.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Liquidware has teamed up with IGEL and ServiceNow to provide unparalleled visibility and insight into end-user experience.

Leading the Charge in Digital Workspace Management 

Monitoring the user experience of your virtual desktop environment, regardless if it is Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD), VMware Horizon, Amazon WorkSpaces, Nutanix Frame, etc., is critical to success these days. Knowing the complete end-to-end user experience should not be ignored as you don’t want any blind spots for the entire connection path for end users. 

Liquidware is an IGEL Ready alliance partner and has enabled tight integration and a purpose-built agent called the “Connector ID” embedded within the IGEL Edge OS. To enable monitoring of IGEL OS client sessions, simply go into the Configuration section of the IGEL Edge OS or IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) server console and check the box to enable the Connector ID. Then you enter the hostname of the Stratusphere Hub virtual appliance and that’s it, your user experience metrics will begin flowing into Stratusphere and it will allow for these metrics to be correlated with the virtual desktop sessions to get comprehensive end-to-end user experience metrics. 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Guest: Chris Walker

"Now that we are all working remotely, we need a way to manage software upgrades on all of our endpoints. For me, the vast majority of the endpoints are running IGEL OS, so we need to be able to not only upgrade the firmware, but also the custom partitions that have been deployed. Enter the IGEL Cloud Gateway (ICG) + Amazon S3

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Co-Host: Sebastian Perusat
Co-Host: Harvey Green

The growing IGEL Ready ecosystem, comprised of the industry’s best hardware and software partners, is a point of pride and offers a strong foundation for future growth and innovation. As we continue to down this path with our 130+ IGEL Ready partners, IGEL is optimizing the program to align with our collective goals and objectives more closely.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Industrial and rugged IGEL Ready thin clients allow expansion of your IGEL environment out of the office and into more challenging environments on the edge.

The benefits of the IGEL OS are many. At a time when crippling ransomware attacks are making headlines, IGEL offers resistance to viruses and other malware. In addition, IGEL delivers ease of management. You can control, update and provision all of your devices running IGEL OS from a unified dashboard.

This ease of device management is important in an office environment. But what if you want to extend your endpoints out of the office to the edge of your enterprise? That is where industrial and rugged hardware with IGEL OS can deliver value in locations where most conventional endpoints will fail.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

• Reduce the time required for troubleshooting from days to minutes
• Proactively identify issues before end users are affected and the help desk is called
• Support your remote and campus workers equally

Overall, the concept of adding AI at the endpoint is gaining a lot of traction. In 2023, Adobe reported that 77% of all devices use some form of AI. Lenovo sees the future of AI moving to a background-running service, first appearing locally in high-end and then consumer devices and eventually becoming ubiquitous across all environments, allowing incredibly high-power models to function at low-power demand.

Lenovo, in partnership with IGEL, has already taken steps to implement these innovative features.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Guest: Doug Brown

The conversation explores how IGEL is advancing contextual access and dynamic trust to strengthen endpoint security, along with new integrations across the ecosystem including Microsoft, Nerdio, and Omnissa. The hosts also dive into emerging technologies like AI-powered enhancements, managed hypervisors, containers, and ARM support, all aimed at improving performance, flexibility, and user experience at the edge.

Additional discussions include healthcare innovations such as password-less authentication and AI-driven workflows, real-world use cases for operational technology, and how these advancements are helping organizations reduce risk while empowering end users. If you missed the event or want a deeper perspective on what was announced, this episode provides a comprehensive and practical recap.

Chris shares insights into the growing importance of securing endpoints amid rising ransomware threats and operational disruptions like the recent CrowdStrike incident. The conversation dives into:

• Why most organizations fail to plan for endpoint-level recovery
• How IGEL’s dual-boot architecture bridges the gap between prevention and recovery
• Real-world examples of minimizing downtime during breaches and outages
• The future of endpoint strategy as SaaS, browsers, and cloud PCs reshape IT infrastructure

Tune in to learn how IGEL is redefining endpoint continuity and setting a new standard for security and business resilience.

The UN is calling it the “Tsunami of E-Waste”. It’s the world’s fasted growing waste stream and is becoming a significant global environmental issue. Whether piled in the landfill or incinerated, improperly processed e-waste causes significant health risks to humans, as well as the environment around use, as dangerous toxins are released.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 02:05 Get the license identifier in UMS
• 03:30 Search for device in licensing portal
• 03:50 Change your Company in licensing portal
• 04:26 remove a Device from Product pack
• 05:55 Refresh the Product pack in UMS
• 06:30 Check licenses in UMS
• 06:57 Check licenses in IGEL OS
• 07:50 Check licenses in a local terminal
• 08:57 Removing the license locally
• 14:07 Delete the license via a Profile

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Seb Perusat

To help the DWEA assess and evaluate the challenges and opportunities that remote, hybrid and on-premises work environments currently face, the consortium is launching its first bi-annual “State of the Digital Workspace 2022” survey.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney 

As soon as I got the key and drove it, I saw them all over the place!

Not so unique after all.

This phenomenon is called ‘Intentional Blindness’ or ‘Perceptual Blindness’, when we don’t notice something in our field of view because we are busy focusing on something else.

I think this is akin to the pervasiveness of Digital Signage, it is everywhere we simply don’t see it.

Until it goes wrong…

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

From Zero Trust architecture and business continuity planning to repurposing hardware for sustainability and simplifying mergers and acquisitions, Andy and Chris share how IGEL unifies hardware, applications, and security into a failsafe foundation for any organization. Whether you’re managing thousands of endpoints or just a few dozen, this conversation reveals why it’s time to break from the status quo and design for a secure, flexible, and future-ready digital workspace.

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:30 Setup the Mail relay
• 04:30 Send out a View via Mail
• 05:44 Send out a view on schedule
• 08:05 Send out Results of Admin tasks
• 11:20 Send out ICG Config
• 11:42 Additional important pieces of information

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• Introduction
• Topology
• Create the Buddy Master role
• Update the Buddy Master
• Create the Buddy Slave role
• Debug the Slave
• Additional important information

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Sebastian Perusat

IGEL’s healthcare solutions will be on full display during HIMSS 22, March 14-18 in Orlando. Always the can’t-miss healthcare event of the year, HIMSS is the perfect place for IGEL, and IGEL Ready partners, to showcase how to reimagine health – this year’s event theme – to support better outcomes for everyone, everywhere.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Guest: Ron Neher
Guest: Divya Saager

• New login mask modernizing the login experience
• Ezeep Cloud Printing by ThinPrint
• Zoom VDI plugin for WVD
• Fabulatech USB- Webcam- and Scanner-Redirection for WVD

Today we will go through the last two features, if you missed the part 1 you can find it by clicking here!
Now, lets have a look at todays topics

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Guest: Jeff Kalberg
Guest: Fredrik Brattstig

Unified Communications is widely used in today’s world. The requirement to configure audio devices is a must. In the following video, you will learn how to prioritize audio devices found on IGEL OS devices.

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 02:00 Check device recognition
• 03:05 Check devices in Sound Manager
• 04:32 Set the Prio locally
• 05:30 Create a profile for it
• 08:08 Use Classes instead of devices
• 09:46 Explain how the Automatic Prio works

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 00:00 Introduction 
• 02:00 Download the Appliance
• 04:00 Import the OVA into your Hypervisor
• 06:40 Configuration EULA
• 06:45 Local IP Address
• 07:55 Check availability
• 08:50 Change the Keyboard Layout
• 09:25 Configure the DHCP Server
• 10:30 Check DHCP settings
• 11:00 Changing the Webserver Password
• 12:00 Upload the Image
• 15:30 Troubleshooting Status
• 16:20 Test the conversion
• 17:30 Change the deployment mode unattended
• 18:10 Black and Whitelisting of Mac Addresses
• 18:40 Your own DHCP Server

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Seb Perusat

With ransomware, supply chain attacks, and endpoint breaches on the rise, traditional security models are being pushed to their limits. This episode explores why reducing attack surface, eliminating endpoint drift, and enforcing a “known good state” are becoming critical strategies for modern IT environments.

From real-world federal use cases to lessons learned over decades in IT, the conversation highlights how immutable operating systems challenge the status quo, simplify security, and help organizations stay ahead of evolving threats.

What you’ll learn:

•  Why endpoints remain the #1 attack vector in modern environments 
•  What “immutable” actually means and why it matters 
•  How reducing complexity improves both security and manageability 
•  The shift from reactive patching to proactive control 
•  Real-world examples of secure endpoint deployment 

If you're rethinking endpoint strategy or trying to simplify security without sacrificing control, this episode is worth a listen.

IGEL’s Sebastian Perusat teaches you to create and optimize IGEL scheduled tasks, known as Jobs. You will learn how to create jobs, the commands required for Jobs, schedule an update, and check the Job’s results. 

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 02:50 Creating a Job
• 03:25 Commands explained
• 10:00 Schedule an Update
• 14:55 Check Jobs results

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastian Perusat

IGEL’s survey of end user computing concerns this year revealed the top concern of IT professionals (61%) is delivering a productive, satisfying user experience. Businesses are heeding these concerns and evolving from the concept of remote working to a ‘work is not a place’ philosophy. They are mindful that users expect, wherever they choose to work, and on whatever endpoint, to have a pleasant, productive experience. That desire certainly extends to video conferencing and collaboration, as many employees have had to learn quite quickly to conduct meetings virtually and share files and graphics without looking like a wonky school lab student!

Now that applications like Zoom and Teams are part of our everyday process – whether working remotely or joining a meeting on-prem – we’re seeing organizations wanting to up their game and deliver the absolute best, high-fidelity, immersive digital experience. To accomplish this, they’re turning to the combined power of IGEL and Citrix to provide a complete, unified communications digital workspace solution that enables seamless collaboration, almost anywhere, at any time. Users benefit by getting fast, frictionless access to virtualized and cloud workspaces from any IGEL OS-powered endpoint, from any location – realizing the flexibility that is so important to productivity.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Guest: Jim Airdo

“Citrix is excited to extend the reach of our security and observability solutions to Linux and to partner with IGEL on the integration of our offerings for our joint customers,” said Sridhar Mullapudi, executive vice president and general manager, Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group. “Citrix and IGEL are enabling any enterprise that wants to secure their employees, IT environment and content while delivering a more secure device posture without compromising user experience.”

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

• New login mask modernizing the login experience
• Ezeep Cloud Printing by ThinPrint
• Zoom VDI plugin for WVD
• Fabulatech USB- Webcam- Scanner-redirection for WVDThis blog will cover the first two pieces, stay tuned for ‘IGEL Releases 11.05.100 – check out the new features here! #WVD part 2’ soon to follow!

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Guest: Fredrik Brattstig
Guest: Jeff Kalberg

Earlier this year, during our annual DISRUPT event, we had the opportunity to dig deeper into the issues and challenges IT faced during the onset of the global pandemic. Most specifically, we looked into how end user computing (EUC) professionals addressed the immediate need to move workers from the office to home with record speed.

Based on survey responses from 269 end user computing (EUC) professionals across North America and EMEA, 61% named user experience the most significant challenge they faced when shifting to a work-from-home model. While being the number one issue across all regions, the challenge was more prevalent in North America (66%) than EMEA (52%).

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

IGEL READY PROGRAM

One year after the launch of IGEL Ready, over 100 hardware and software vendors have now joined the partner program designed to develop verified and integrated solutions with IGEL technologies.

As many already know, HP is a market leader in cloud computing and offers a range of powerful cloud solutions, including Thin client devices. Across the range, HP thin clients offer at least dual 4K monitor support with a range of powerful processors and connectivity options.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

More and more of our IGEL customers want to facilitate work from anywhere.

In the office they were familiar with using #IGELOS driven devices.  By providing end users with notebooks running IGEL OS or UD Pocket(IGEL  on a stick) user can safely and easily connect to their virtual  workplace.

The management backend (UMS) is managing these devices in the  local network.  connect to ICG and the  management backend connects to ICG and the devices can be managed as if  they were local.   

If you're ICG is installed and configured well you can now manage  you're devices outside the office. Deploy and update profiles, support  users with shadow functionality. One important part that has to be  configured separately is the distribution of IGEL OS firmware and Custom  Partitions (Additional Software running on the IGEL OS like MS Teams and  Zoom)

For this you need to point you're devices to a remote https/sftp  location. Please read here how


Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

In recent years, the shift towards thin client endpoints in healthcare (and away from Windows) has been accelerated by many market factors with security being one of the most common (as healthcare has been a primary target for ransomware attacks), followed by a rapid acceleration towards the cloud.  Here are some of the top reasons IGEL has documented based on customer feedback.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

For organizations using technologies and products from these two companies to deliver virtual apps and desktops to their end-users, some may be feeling a bit concerned about the future, especially in terms of how they will continue to manage and control their end-users’ digital workspaces.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 01:50 Check the installed firmware version
• 01:58 Check for newer / older Updates
• 02:30 Downloading via UMS
• 03:10 Checking connectivity
• 03:47 Manual Download via WEB
• 05:21 Uploading manually
• 06:27 Corecting Hostname
• 07:00 Assigning the update
• 07:20 Update immediately
• 08:00 Best practices light

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat
Co-Host: Chris Feeneey

IGEL offers a secure read-only lightweight Linux Operating System allowing you to convert existing PC’s to IGEL OS or boot from USB (thus not affecting the existing Operating System or data) whilst in a Disaster Recovery situation, allowing users to connect to services such as VDI, DaaS and\or WEB and SaaS applications.

In a DR scenario IGEL OS will work without the need for management infrastructure to be setup and configured, simply boot to IGEL OS, download evaluation licenses for 90 days; install any client applications you require to connect to your VDI, DaaS and\or WEB and SaaS applications and get your users back up and running FAST.

This may also have the advantage of granting the IT team breathing space whilst they continue to troubleshoot any ongoing outages.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

It’s clear from the headlines that today’s approach to endpoint security isn’t working: take your OS, install antivirus, the latest XDR and DLP, make a lot of settings, harden that with custom scripts, install your applications, keep updating those applications and the OS and the AV and DLP….. and hope that all these steps keep the wolf from the door and the ransomware out of your systems.  Does your business financial data, personal health information or any other data feel secure?

With many of today’s workloads moving from the endpoint to SaaS, DaaS, VDI or being accessed through secure browsers, and many organizations looking at how to apply Zero Trust, isn’t it time to re-evaluate the endpoint?

What if you could put an endpoint OS into your workforce’s hands that was designed for the cloud-first world that doesn’t need high levels of care and feeding to remain healthy? Something that is more robust by its nature, that had built-in preventative components or measures, as in “Prevention is better than cure.”?

IGEL OS applies a number of core principles that make it a secure choice as an endpoint OS – the Preventative Security Model™.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

As you may know, there are many answers to this question and multiple ways we can deploy IGEL OS to an endpoint. For this blog, we will focus purely on installing IGEL OS with zero touch from the end-user allowing remote installation on all of your existing devices, whether they are PCs/Laptops or Thin Terminals.

 I am going to cover four methods of how this can be done.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Patrick Toner

I’m often asked why is IGEL investing in IGEL OS (RPI4) as an alternative to the Intel x86-64 bit architecture.  There is no simple answer, but in a nutshell, this is why IGEL OS on ARM:

• ARM is here to stay (witness Apple’s move to M1)
• Choice is good – competition is good, it keeps us all honest
• RPI4 often offers a smaller form factor than the equivalent x86 device
• Etc….

THAT’S ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

Here’s why – because for the same reason that IGEL OS runs on all sorts of different x86-64 devices from HP, Lenovo, LG, Elo Touch, Advantech, OnLogic, etc., at IGEL we believe you need even more choice.  Hence our port of IGEL OS to the NComputing RX420 (IGEL) and RX440 (IGEL) thin clients.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

IGEL’s partnership with Island offers a uniquely agile workspace with unmatched security and optimized workflows. Here are six key benefits users will experience: 

• Zero trust access for applications to protect data 
• Frictionless onboarding and administration 
• Easy app installation and updates 
• Familiar browser interface options 
• Increased enterprise performance 
• Reduced power consumption 

Adding the Island Enterprise Browser offers a secure alternative to desktop virtualization for organizations already using IGEL OS. When paired with the Island Enterprise Browser, IGEL’s Preventative Security Model is a proven solution that provides simplified endpoint management and a familiar browsing experience.  

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

This integration in IGEL OS is unique and supports our joint customers with easy, direct access so they can run device checks centrally from the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) management console without requiring any further plugin permission or installation.

The decision to stop production of hardware thin clients for the No. 3 provider of thin clients in North America and Europe with an installed base of three million devices - opens the door for lGEL to provide its next gen edge OS exclusively through heavyweight hardware partners LG, Lenovo and HP.

For IGEL CEO Jed Ayres – who has spearheaded the company’s transformation into a secure Linux workspace operating system powerhouse- getting out of the hardware business is the culmination of a “dream come true” that he envisioned when he joined the company as CEO of North America six years ago.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat 
Guest: Jed Ayres

On February 25th, 2021, at IGEL DISRUPT Unite, IGEL announced and released a private build (fully supported) of IGEL OS containing an integration of Amazon WorkSpaces Linux client conveying to the world that all major VDI/DaaS platforms were now available.

As significant, or as insignificant, as this may seem to Citrix, Microsoft, or VMware customers, the impact is undeniable:

The next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces now fully supports ALL public, hybrid, and private cloud mainstream virtual desktop platforms.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Chris Feeney
Guest: Mike Barmonde

During September 2022, more than 2,500 organizations around the world took part in the survey, which was one of the largest digital workspace-focused surveys to date and comes at a pivotal moment when the upheaval we’ve experienced due to the global pandemic. The lessons learned over the last two years are still fresh in our minds and based on the survey, a clearer picture of the path forward is emerging with many organizations eager to solidify the digital workspace strategies that will see them into the future.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Barry Browne
Co-host: Chris Feeney
C0-host: Patrick Toner