Podcast #132: IGEL Future-Proof Solutions For End-User Computing Deployments

This week, Brian is joined by Matthias Haas, IGEL’s Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director, Storagereview Contributor, and preeminent EUC expert Tom Fenton. IGEL Technology is a virtual desktop and end-user computing leader focused on thin client development.  Check out Tom’s recent coverage of IGEL Disrupt.

Matthias describes himself as an “EUC visionary helping customers to future-proof their endpoint deployments at scale for a multi-cloud-enabled world.” He has been in IT for over 15 years, starting as a System Engineer focused on Linux security. During his tenure in software development, Matthias developed a deep technical understanding he used to create customer-oriented solutions. These products and solutions had a clear technical strategy but also answered customers’ day-to-day challenges.

Although a successful business model, IGEL has moved away from the hardware business typically associated with thin client technology and developed a secure, purpose-built thin operating system. Creating a thin operating system addresses the current transformation in multicloud deployments. The disruption to virtualization generated by Broadcom’s recent VMware acquisition adds angst to users dependent upon cloud technologies. Of course, many of the major hardware. Many enterprise software and hardware vendors have jumped on the VMware migration bandwagon. Still, IGEL has addressed this effect on end-user computing, creating a secure, easy-to-use, thin operating system.

For those unfamiliar with Tom’s work, he has over twenty years of experience working with virtualization and cloud technologies and over twenty-five years of Enterprise IT experience. He has a track record of keeping up with new technologies and presenting solutions to complex problems. Tom has been a key contributor to Storagereview.com.

This is an essential topic since EUC touches most of us daily. Although shorter than most of our podcasts, it is packed with information. If you have the time, give this a complete view, but if you are strapped for time, we have provided a time-stamped breakdown of the transcript.

 00:00  Introduction

• Tom gets a compliment from Brian
• Matthias provides some IGEL history
• Disruption due to Covid

05:00  What do you mean it doesn’t support Windows 11?

• IGEL Disrupt announcements
• Fully integrated
• Partnerships
• IoT
• IGEL Disrupt 2024 dates
• App Create Portal

10:00  Build that app

• Build and sign on the App Create Portal
• Content streaming
• Pushing the Edge
• Building the Insight Module
• Secure the app

15:00  It’s agnostic

• Reducing the attack surface
• Talking about browsers
  • Managing the footprint
  • Make it permanent or temporary
• Managing the identity

20:00  What’s needed to run a system?

• Run it on top of Windows or macOS?
• Providing the best user experience
• Developing local apps
  • Zoom
  • Teams
  • WebEx
• Supporting AI

25:00  Neural Processing Units

• Functionality
• Inferencing
• AI is a moving target for end users
• GPUs in the cloud
• Leveraging the capabilities

30:00  Running workloads on an endpoint

• Or should workloads run in the data center or on a GPU?
• Browsers will continue to be important
  • Secure browsers
  • Enterprise browsers

35:00  Digital signage infrastructure

• Learn more from the IGEL website (link below)
  • IGEL slack community
  • Run IGEL OS 12
  • Runs anywhere

39:00  Wrap up

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