In 2019, IGEL believes DaaS will come of age, driven in part by major players such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google and IBM’s RedHat, all of whom are fighting to capture more of the enterprise cloud business.  As they innovate to improve desktop solutions, they will undoubtedly generate more enterprise awareness of DaaS as a viable alternative for cloud-delivered workloads.

Deploying DaaS

IGEL and Dizzion are partnering to deliver compliant-ready DaaS at the endpoint.  With this partnership we are addressing several key trends:

• Endpoint computing is overdue for a change. Multi-faceted threats and an expanding attack surface means the Windows OS of the desktop cannot provide a secure environment.  IGEL’s Linux-based OS offers a minimal footprint – enabling quick and easy access to desktop applications, while reducing risk from cybersecurity threats.
• Mobile device proliferation, IoT and employee turnover in a hot job market make high-cost hardware investments impractical and wasteful.IGEL’s software-defined approach to endpoint security and optimization meets organizations’ need to be far more nimble and cost-efficient in providing end user computing.
• Extending the useful life of legacy hardware investment is also top of mind for cost-conscious organizations. IGEL software can repurpose x86 devices intomodern, secure, IGEL OS-based thin clients.
• Compliance and overall regulatory standards for guarding against data breach are at an all-time high and will only get more stringent. However, compliance at the endpoint has been problematic for organizations under HIPAA or PCI (Payment Card Industry) guidelines, for example.Dizzion, using IGEL’s secure, software-defined endpoint security and optimization, has solved this endpoint challenge, and now provides end-to-end compliance for its customers.

DaaS in the Enterprise

Next year and beyond, DaaS deployment will increase as part of the larger trend of accelerated cloud adoption.  Software-defined endpoints with access to the cloud will be the preferred approach to accommodate private, public, or hybrid cloud environments.  Partnerships such as IGEL and Dizzion represent the future of end user computing, offering enterprises a secure, compliant way to provide anytime, anywhere access to desktops and applications, without a heavy hardware spend or forklift upgrade procurement costs.

For more information on IGEL and Dizzion’s combined solution, read here.

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Dizzion is an innovator in providing desktop as a service (DaaS) solutions that help to address the changing scope of today’s workforce who demand freedom over where and when they work. As partners, Dizzion and IGEL are working together to deliver compliant endpoint-as-a-service capabilities to customers across multiple industries including healthcare, financial services and education. Read the recent press release.

As guest experts on the Dizzion blog, Doug and I were able to share some of our views on the desktop transformation that is now upon us. Even as we’ve adjusted work habits to embrace smartphones and tablets, we’re now looking at the impact of IoT and the way people access their applications, consume data and engage with the world, all while working to remain productive. Adding to that is the increasing security threat posed by the connected world. It’s clear that EUC can’t just simply evolve, it must be disrupted to meet the needs of today’s organizations.

Why were endpoint devices ready for a change?

In the Dizzion blog, we assert that with today’s multi-faceted threat landscape and the expanding attack surface, endpoint computing must change. But, despite these threats, the core architecture of the Windows OS for the desktop has not changed in the last 30+ years. Windows is still built to be retrofitted every year, and patched every Tuesday. This begs the question as to why we haven’t moved to a new paradigm in desktop computing?

We’ve already seen this happen in the datacenter with software-defined networking (SDN); Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions, but why not at the endpoint? Clearly, the endpoint is ripe for a change, and that is exactly what IGEL is doing through our software-defined approach to endpoint security and optimization. IGEL’s Linux-based OS is a modern, secure, desktop operating system. It offers a minimal footprint – enabling quick and easy access to desktop applications, while reducing risk from cybersecurity threats. Through our approach, we are providing businesses of all sizes with a more secure way to deliver desktop applications to their end users.

Read more about our take on the Evolution of the EUC here to learn why we think Windows for the endpoint is on its way out and why desktop virtualization is so viable for today’s business. You’ll also see why we think a smarter approach to EUC will give organizations a competitive edge while minimizing security risk and embracing the IoT paradigm.

What are your predictions? What do you see in store for EUC? Contact uswith your comments.

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