IGEL
Why IGEL?
IGEL provides an endpoint operating system designed for VDI, DaaS, and cloud workspaces.
If you really want to boost productivity, efficiency, and security, then it makes sense to move your desktop computing from the endpoint to the cloud, or your secure data center.
IGEL OS is simple to deploy and built from rock-solid Linux. It standardizes your endpoints, providing for adaptive configuration and granular control while giving your users a familiar, problem-free workspace.
The savings are huge. Slash the amount of time lost to endpoint crashes, updates, patches, and unending login screens, and free your IT team from soul-destroying helpdesk drudgery.
Enjoy the extra reliability of datacentre and cloud inherent fault tolerance and automated backups as well as significantly boosted performance in database lookup or query.
• IGEL OS works on any compatible x86-64 device, including Windows desktops, laptops, HP or Dell Wyse thin clients, and MacBook devices
• Connect to any cloud, including AWS, Azure, Citrix, and VMware
• Manage 300,000 endpoints from a single console
IGEL solutions offer:
- Extreme hardware cost savings
- Sharply reduces ongoing operating expenses
- More secure and manageable endpoints
- Control platform across nearly any x86-64 device including thin clients, PCs, laptops and now NComputing Arm devices
The benefits IGEL
IGEL are the leaders in simple, smart, secure, work-from-anywhere technology. Start working from home fast, while staying secure and productive with zero fuss.
Simple
Accessing your cloud workspace is as easy as plugging in a USB and rebooting. And IT teams can centrally deploy, manage, and troubleshoot endpoints across the Internet – reducing support tickets by up to 95%.
Smart
Work from home on your favourite device – desktop or laptop, PC or Mac. IGEL turns any x86-64 device into a cloud-workspace-ready endpoint. No need to spend a fortune on new hardware.
Secure
IGEL OS offers the ultimate in endpoint security, reducing vulnerabilities and enabling constant security without constant updates.
Make work from home easy for your employees and your IT team
Turn work from home into your competitive advantage
You now have people working from home (WFH). It may not have been easy, but your organisation responded to the challenge to enable your people to work from outside the office. Now what?
WFH can be much easier going forward – for both your people and your IT team. IGEL OS can run on any compatible x86-64 thin client, PC, laptop, or tablet. The IGEL UD Pocket and the IGEL UD Pocket2 (IGEL OS on a tiny USB stick) can turn any user’s personal device into their business-managed endpoint by simply booting from a USB-A or USB-C port.
The UD Pocket and UD Pocket2 with IGEL OS offers your people their familiar workspace, runs in its own secure environment, stores all data in the cloud, and is fully managed by the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) endpoint management software. And as soon as it’s unplugged, that device immediately returns to its original environment. It’s the perfect way to make work from home a snap!
Azure Virtual Desktop
Designed and offered as a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), Azure Virtual Desktop (WVD) is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualisation service running in the cloud.
Offering simplified management and multi-session Windows 10, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes. IGEL OS further extends the security and management benefits of running AVD.
Spend less time worrying about security and minimise your endpoint attack surfaces
IGEL makes security simpler. By converting any compatible x86-64 device into a fully functioning read-only cloud workspace, and moving Windows into the cloud, you immediately minimise endpoint attack surfaces, whether on licensed endpoints or on users’ own devices. And that allows you to focus on creating a rock-solid security strategy for your data centres and clouds, without having to worry about what’s going on out in the wild.
IGEL OS was created as an edge OS for cloud workspaces.
It’s secure by design:
- Linux based: inherently secure and proven to be safer than Windows on an endpoint
- Read-only: locked-down and tamper-proof
- Modular: use only the modules you need to minimise attack surfaces
Say so long to constant patching and forget multiple patches for multiple machines
Deploy your patches all in one go in your secure data centre or cloud workspace environment. Then immediately revert to an earlier image if you encounter problems. Roll out new apps and software quickly and securely and bring new users into your network with ease. IGEL OS also ensures migrating to Windows 10/11 can be achieved with minimum fuss.
IGEL OS makes maintaining endpoint security easy and smart.
- All Windows updates and patches take place in the secure data centre or cloud.
- IGEL OS updates on endpoint devices are super-easy to execute via a console drag-and-drop.
- Many thousands of IGEL OS-powered endpoints can be updated at once, or any subset.
All IGEL OS updates are verified by IGEL OS at each endpoint to ensure a secure process.
Keep your workforce happy and secure at the same time whilst providing them secure access to the apps they need in a powerful windows OS experience
- All connections between IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) and IGEL OS-powered endpoints run over a secure tunnel.
- No need for VPN: remote devices can be fully managed via the IGEL Cloud Gateway (ICG) feature.
- UMS console admins can use ICG to securely shadow remote user devices, taking over the device keyboard and mouse for troubleshooting.
- IGEL OS includes the complete ‘chain of trust’: a series of cryptographic signature verifications, which starts on the AMD SoC (IGEL endpoints) or UEFI (any other x86-64 device) all the way to the target host or cloud.
- IGEL hardware also includes AMD Secure Boot and MemoryGuard technology for added device security.
- IGEL OS includes integrations from some of the leading security-focused partners, such as Imprivata for single sign-on – and many more.
IGEL Sustainability
IGEL’s vision is to transform the way the world works, creating better outcomes for people, organisations, and our planet. Let’s look at how IGEL OS helps organisations reduce their carbon footprint while we at IGEL do our part as a responsible member of the global community.
Extend lifespan of your devices
Repurposing hardware with IGEL OS to connect to the cloud reduces the number of devices sent to landfill, manufacturing energy consumption, and the mining of natural resources and mineral elements used for chips and boards.
Free your workforce and be kind to the planet
Let your people use their endpoint devices of choice wherever they wish by supporting flexible and energy-saving work styles.
