IGEL Weekly

We are back from an unintentional summer hiatus of the IGEL community podcast.  Join Seb and I as we walk through the various changes within IGEL leadership. We also dive into some great technical content (REST API, PSIGEL), and some other awesome nerdiness. Host: Barry Browne Host Sebastien Perusat Links:   https://github.com/IGEL-Community/PSIGEL https://videos.igelcommunity.com/tech-qa-with-chr...

From pension funds to healthcare providers, ransomware is still finding plenty of victims. After a post-pandemic drop, the rate of ransomware is accelerating. Two groups getting attention are CIOp and BlackCat (ALPHV). Cl0p’s MOVEit Transfer hack to date has affected 15 million people and 121 organizations, including two large pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS. BlackCat (ALPHV), skilled at exfilt...

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In waving goodbye to our hardware business , shifting to a subscription model, and bringing to market our ground-breaking COSMOS platform, IGEL is setting the course towards a promising future that is rich with innovation. The narrative unfolding within IGEL Ready mirrors this pattern of advancement and transformation. The growing IGEL Ready ecosystem, comprised of the industry’s best hardware and...

With the release of the IGEL COSMOS platform, there was bound to be some confusion around COSMOS, what it is, and why should I care. In this podcast Sebastien and Barry walk through the top handful of misunderstandings taken directly from the IGEL Community, and real-world customer scenarios. Host: Barry Browne Cohost: Sebastien Persuat

IGEL and Citrix have enjoyed a strong technical and marketing alliance within end-user computing for decades. The latest evidence of this is IGEL integrating the Citrix Gateway plugin into the IGEL OS for direct access to Citrix Endpoint Analysis. 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 Un...

I was going to write a long detailed episode description for this episode.  But then I remembered the first rule of Fight Club. If you know you know. Thanks to our guests on this weeks show XenTegra Global CTO: Moin Khan XenTegra India: Indrajeet Ghorpade

In this episode, Seb and I will take the top handful of questions that we see in the community and attempt to answer them! We cover OS 5, OS 10, OS 11, and of course Cosmos. If you are curious about the upgrade process from IGEL OS 11 to IGEL OS 12/Cosmos, then this episode is for you! If you are curious about what happens to your endpoint when subscriptions lapse, then this episode is for you! If...

First Disrupt in Nashville, then COSMOS goes GA.  As a result is no shortage of topics for us to discuss on this week's podcast.  With so much IGEL news out there, somehow, we still managed to go down a rabbit hole and introduced a whole new segment. Seb teaches Barry German. When we are not learning German, we recap IGEL Disrupt, and talk about all things COSMOS. Host: Barry Browne Co-Host: Sebas...

Join us live from IGEL Disrupt in Nashville, as we talk all things EUC, and the disruptive nature of IGEL OS. In this episode, we were lucky to get some face time with IGEL CEO Jed Ayres, and IGEL SVP Irfan Khursid.  Jed and Irfan did share some insights in what we should expect coming out of Disrupt 2023, so be sure to listen to the end.  Exciting times ahead for IGEL customers, IGEL partners, an...

Join Barry and Sebastien as they discuss what to expect at the upcoming IGEL Disrupt conference kicking off next week in Nashville.  Some interesting teasers in what we should expect from the podcast, the event, and IGEL OS 12: COSMOS. Host: Barry Browne Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat

IGEL , provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, today announced IGEL COSMOS. Unveiled at DISRUPT23 – The Ultimate Global EUC event in Munich, COSMOS is a unified, agile platform to securely manage and automate the delivery of digital workspaces, from any cloud. Offering a modular architecture, granular endpoint control and end-user freedom, COSM...

Remote work is alive and well and thriving in the U.S. and abroad. An estimated 36.2 million American employees will be working remotely by 2025. Right now, about a quarter of U.S. employees are working remotely and 16% of U.S. companies are all-remote, according to Zippia. It’s indicative of what is becoming the standard workforce environment of the future: a hybrid work environment that includes...

The Digital Workspace  Ecosystem Alliance (DWEA), a non-profit consortium of technology leaders dedicated to providing vendor-neutral tools and resources to help organizations develop their digital workspace strategies, has released the results of its first annual “State of the Digital Workspace 2022” survey, which looks at adoption, benefits, challenges and opportunities that remote, hybrid and o...

Written by Edwin ten Haaf, IGEL Community Member 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...

This week we discuss the success of the IGEL Community and the value it has brought to the EUC community. We also cover the future and what the community has planned to bring more value to the current and future members. Host: Patrick Toner Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

One of my favorite parts about the IGEL Community and any community is people helping people. Someone asks a question, maybe not even relating to IGEL itself but an associated technology. Many fine folks jump in to give their suggestions. Recently I saw just this in the IGEL Community, and the solution is so fantastic and helpful; I wanted to share it with all of you!  Joseph Masone, asked the que...

IGEL , a maker of well-engineered thin client hardware devices for two decades, is exiting that business as part of an all-out drive to make its popular Linux secure edge operating system the standard for Windows workspace computing across any device or cloud. The decision to stop production of hardware thin clients for the No. 3 provider of thin clients in North America and Europe with an install...

Watch this IGEL Tech-Tips Tuesday video to learn how to configure the prioritization of audio devices on IGEL OS.  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, Sebastie...

IGEL is proud to be hosting a new webinar series with IGEL Ready analytics partners 7SIGNAL , Liquidware and ControlUp . During this series, which kicks off on Tuesday, October 18 , attendees will have the opportunity to learn how the joint solutions offered by IGEL and these three IGEL Ready partners can help optimize the employee experience in today’s work-from-anywhere world. Host: Andy Whitesi...

In this video, Sebastian Perusat will walk you through the tasks needed to update the IGEL OS via the IGEL UMS, including how to check for and download updates, manually update, configurations required, and firmware update best practices.  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 fo...

Have you ever been in a situation where you have a user with brand new endpoints out in the field, at home, or elsewhere, and you need to guide them to be able to access your Citrix published Desktops and/or Apps environment? Has there at any time been any problems when onboarding users, making them install the right components and configure their machines in the correct way? IGEL has been working...

LG participation in the IGEL “Why Compromise” campaign. As part of this global promotion, IGEL is providing 14-inch LG gram laptops, pre-loaded with IGEL OS and integrated with ControlUp’s Digital Employee Experience Management platform, to qualified participants. To trial an IGEL powered LG laptop, Host: Andy Whiteside Co-host: Patrick Tonner Co-host: Chris Feeney

This week the team takes a break from discussing IGEL blogs and covers the IGEL CLI concepts and some key commands that every IGEL administrator should know.  Host: Andy Whiteside Co-host: Patrick Toner Co-host: Chris Feeney Co-host: Sebastien Perusat 

We then look at what is sustainability and why it has become so important to companies. In fact, most companies annual reports now include sustainability as a strategic business objective. 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 fo...