Just to recap some key cloud statistics, IDC estimates that 60% of infrastructure spending will be on public or private cloud by 2022. This contrasts with 46% in 2017. That’s because of the clear advantages offered by a cloud-centric infrastructure, including the ability to lower hardware costs, reduce maintenance requirements, better optimize workloads, and enhance user productivity through the reliable access to cloud-native applications. These benefits are just as valuable at the endpoint as they are in the datacenter.

Changing Endpoint Economics

A recently published IDC InfoBrief, “Linux and the Endpoint security and optimization Market,” states that “global cloud infrastructure expansion is driving growth in underlying endpoint hardware and software that facilitates cloud access in reliable and secure ways.”

So, what’s that mean? Cloud adoption is changing the status quo of end user computing (EUC). Rather than Windows PCs, endpoints and repurposed endpoint devices are the go-to for organizations looking to take advantage of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) workspaces.  (IGEL is having considerable success converting older devices to endpoints with our conversion software.) In doing so, enterprises are capitalizing on the value of the cloud, without heavy hardware spend or forklift upgrade procurement costs.

Simplifying Management Complexity

Not only is the cloud dramatically changing the economics of EUC, it’s also making endpoint computing more manageable and secure. That may seem counterintuitive. With users now roaming, working from everywhere using the cloud, it can be difficult for IT to enact comprehensive policy control and remote support. It can be a complex puzzle that has many companies limiting user behavior, and their productivity, to assure compliance and data security.

But, not for users of the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS). UMS users have one integrated, low touch system for universal endpoint security and optimization that supports almost any virtual desktop deployment architecture – including the cloud. This means that it’s easier than ever to capitalize on cloud benefits without sacrificing manageability. Something we’re certain will further fuel VDI and DaaS adoption.

The Rise of Linux at the Desktop

Cloud adoption is changing one more thing at the desktop: the operating system of choice. Windows is quickly losing ground. In fact, while Windows remains flat in terms of endpoint OS market share – 39% in 2015 and 2017 – Linux-based endpoint devices have grown 8% between 2015 and 2017 to 35%. That makes Linux the only endpoint OS that’s growing at a global level. And, the cloud has a lot to do with it.

Why? Most major cloud platforms are Linux-based. IDC says that’s “giving the OS a strong base for momentum in cloud environments.” And the Linux trend hasn’t gone unnoticed by major global vendors including Microsoft, Intel and others. You can read more about that in my blog “Why Linux will Rule the World.”

Overcoming the Cloud Security Hurdle

Finally, one more way cloud growth is changing endpoint computing is when it comes to security. A recent report by Gartner said that cloud computing ranks as the top risk concern for executives in risk, audit, finance and compliance. However, leaning on the two technologies outline above, a Linux-based OS and unified endpoint security and optimization, IGEL is enabling IT to overcome the cloud security hurdle. Read my blog “Security: The Key to End User Computing Fulfilling on its Promise.” Here I outline the five ways the IGEL OS enhances the security of EUC – whether on-premises or delivered in the cloud – including the use of embedded protection against viruses and malware through a Linux-based OS that is virtually impossible to manipulate or breach. The security advantages of using a Linux-based OS for the endpoint will continue to propel its use in cloud-enabled infrastructures in combination with enhanced manageability and lower cost.

The cloud will continue to change the landscape of today’s IT – with the endpoint being one of its latest transformations. At IGEL, it’s been something we’ve anticipated for some time. As a result, you can bet that we’ll be at the leading-edge of innovation for cloud-enabled EUC with new features that will make it increasingly more viable, while continuing to lower costs, improve manageability and bulletproof security along the way.

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IGEL’s Citrix Synergy lineup this year is a non-stop experience for you to gain technical insights, solve virtualization challenges, celebrate with us as our treasured partners and customers and, most definitely, also have some fun in between sessions!

This event will celebrate our first IT Baller giveaway of $20,000 on Thursday afternoon in the Expo hall.  If you are not already entered in the draw, then attend one of the Innovation Theater IGEL presentations given every hour on the half hour, and complete a short survey.

Also be sure to win your chance to spend time in the IT Baller money machine. Here’s some of the ways to win:

• Attend any of our IGEL Innovation Theater presentations and you’re automatically entered in the draw at the end of every session
• Score highest on our ‘virtual’ race car game powered by IGEL, NVIDIA and Citrix
• Get a golden ticket for wearing your IT Baller swag

What Does the Future of Endpoint security and optimization Look Like?

Find out by joining us at our events including:

• IGEL Technical Boot Camp, May 7
• IGEL Breakout Session, ‘A Software-Defined Approach to Managing and Securing the Endpoint,’ May 9
• Innovation Theater presentations May 8-10 with Citrix, Nutanix, Imprivata, Lakeside, UniPrint, VMware, NVIDIA, and AMD.

When you’re at our booth be sure to check out our UD7 Universal Desktop, the latest addition to IGEL’s portfolio of virtualization-optimized endpoints. The UD7 answers the need for access to multiple, high-quality displays (up to 4 screens, two of which are at 4K resolution, 60Hz refresh rate) for applications such as video production, operations centers or hospital diagnostics centers. It’s another example of how IGEL is enabling the future of secure, innovative work.

And the Future does Include Fun!

Relax between sessions with IGEL at events including:

• IGEL Community Happy Hour with IGEL’s Doug Brown May 7, 5-6:30 PM, Anaheim Marriott Hotel
• Partners VIP Luncheon, May 9, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM, Anaheim Marriott Hotel
• Customer VIP Luncheon, May 10, 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM, Anaheim Marriott Hotel

And don’t forget our IT Baller prize winner announcement, May 10 at 3PM, at our Booth #202!

Let’s make the future work! See you at Synergy!

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Bottom line, it is an exciting time to be at IGEL and we are delighted to be working with Chantell at CPC, where the sky is the limit.  CPC is a leading provider of complete endpoint solutions and a key reseller of IGEL endpoints. Customers get the full package from CPC, from requirements assessment to on-site support to cost-saving maintenance programs.  We can’t wait to see how Chantell and CPC will create new ideas and solutions for retail customers looking to improve end user computing.

If you’re in retail you owe it to yourself to give Chantell a call, just to hear about the “art of the possible.”

Welcome Chantell, I can’t wait to go shopping!

Hyperlink to Chantell’s LinkedIn profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chantellcomberger/

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My trip involved just a small elective procedure, so was not exactly life threatening, but with the thought of needles, monitors stuck to one’s torso, harsh artificial lights and, in true Monty Python-esque fashion, lots of “machines that go ‘ping!’, there’s still plenty to be mildly concerned about. Plus of course the fact it was 2pm, and I hadn’t eaten since my meagre piece of toast and black coffee at 6am…

As I lay on a gurney, wearing a paper hat and one of those gowns that for some reason leaves your backside exposed, I was wheeled into a waiting-room directly outside the operating theatre. Left to my own devices while the sound of clinicians and nurses prepping for the operation echoed from the room next door, I looked around.

To my immediate right, there was a monitor.

On that monitor was a very familiar logo, announcing to the world (well, to the poor fool on the operating gurney anyway) that this hospital’s end-points were part of an IGEL cloud-based operating solution.

Hooray! I was in safe hands…surrounded by old friends!

The logo also featured regular IGEL partners-in-crime Imprivata, which suggested that IGEL and Imprivata were working in tandem on a secure, single-sign-on (SSO) solution for accessing virtual endpoints.

The endpoint itself gave me slightly less confidence. On closer inspection, it appeared to be a very old Dell PC, still bearing a Windows Vista sticker, which suggests it was around a decade past its best. On the flip side, this highlights the fact that converting legacy devices to run on the IGEL OS really DOES extend their working life far beyond normal barriers. Which, in even more positive fashion, means I haven’t been lying in all those articles and blog posts I’ve written over the years. Still, it really did look very old and dusty…

Eventually, a friendly nurse came in, and asked me the same questions I’d already been asked several times. As she began to put monitors and sticky tape on my person, and tick charts and other official-looking stuff, I thought to ask her about the IGEL/Imprivata solution.

“Looks like a pretty cool endpoint solution you’ve got there,” said I.

“Er, what sorry?” Said she.

“Your computers. I do some work for the companies that make it easy to access your workflows, using that little wrist band on your arm,” I continued. (They had an access control solution attached to each terminal for faster, secure access).

“Oh that! Yes, it has really changed our lives, I love it. So much better than the last place I worked in,” she enthused.

A big tick for IGEL in the Australian healthcare system!

I began to give the nurse a quick rundown on what IGEL’s OS brings to the hospital as part of their technology stack. Indeed, I would have spoken more about the ways of IGEL and enhancing the user experience, but at this point another clinician came into the room and proceeded to render me unconscious, which I choose not to associate with my fascinating discourse on cloud computing in the healthcare system.

Anyway, it all ended up fine, a couple of days off my feet and I am back to writing content and managing media relations for the world’s most dynamic VDI company. I consider myself lucky to live in a country where healthcare is relatively affordable, efficient and very safe. I am equally lucky to have seen IGEL in action, at least for a very short while, and to have heard first-hand, from someone with no vested interest in the system other than their own personal experience, that it works bloody well for them!

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As IGEL’s first Canada country manager, based in our Toronto office, I have to say I am more than delighted to help tell our Canadian colleagues about IGEL’s simple, secure and cost-effective solutions for remote management of endpoint devices.  Having worked for more than a decade developing go-to-market strategies and expanding sales channels in the endpoint and endpoint security and optimization software space, I believe IGEL’s approach to end user computing is the absolute best fit for how enterprises operate today.  They need to deliver productive, secure desktops to users on any device, anywhere, and IGEL is the best solution for this in the market today.

We are fortunate to have Michael Berman joining our Canadian team as sales engineer.  Michael is a Citrix veteran who spent nearly a decade focused on Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and XenServer solutions.  IGEL clients will find Michael has an encyclopedic knowledge of VDI and no doubt, they will see quickly how Michael will help them deploy IGEL solutions and improve productivity so smoothly they’ll have time to check those hockey games!

IGEL is a channel-first company so our expanded Canadian presence wouldn’t be complete without stepping up our partner program.  We are happy to announce Compugen as the region’s first IGEL Platinum Partner.  Compugen, one of Canada’s top IT solutions and service providers, has been an IGEL partner for some time and is the perfect fit for helping us grow the Canadian market.  Working with our channel team to expand our footprint is our distribution partner, Ingram Micro Canada.

Not a bad start to a new era of IGEL in Canada, eh?  Whether you say the Canadian eh, or the American awesome, one thing is certain:  we at IGEL Canada are ready to make 2018 a powerful sales year!

Please email me to say hello!  We can talk endpoint security and optimization, maple syrup, hockey and predictions on the Olympics!

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We like to say Simon has a maniacal focus on the midmarket and he proves this every day, getting out in the field, talking to IT teams and end users, gaining first hand details on what matters to them in terms of a first-rate virtualization and endpoint environment.

It’s nice to see the industry recognizing Simon’s midmarket dedication, naming him to The Channel Company’s Top Midmarket IT Executives list for 2017. The annual list honors influential vendor and solution provider executives who have demonstrated an exceptionally strong commitment to the midmarket. Simon will receive the award this week at the 2017 Midsize Enterprise Summit Fall, in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 17-19.

After less than a year on board at IGEL, Simon has made his mark in spectacular fashion, demonstrating to the midmarket how IGEL can help companies improve productivity and get the most business benefits from virtualization, using our endpoint security and optimization software to deliver a secure, satisfying desktop experience on any device.

Simon has been a key player in IGEL achieving such historical milestones as an 890% in software revenue in the U.S. market in the first half of 2017 and 156% worldwide through aggressive sales and marketing initiatives. He has also helped to establish new routes to market through innovative Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) managed service offerings from Platinum Partners Entisys360 and MTM Technologies. Simon has also worked to expand our IGEL Platinum Partner Program and helping to establish Channel Partner Advisory, Customer Advisory and Marketing Advisory Councils.

He’s a maniac, Simon, but in a good way! We applaud his commitment to IGEL and the midmarket!

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