Archive for June, 2011

The IGEL Universal Desktop Converter (UDC) obtainable from Germany’s major manufacturer of thin customers, IGEL Technology, now also supports thin customers from Wyse. With this step, the IGEL UDC now covers all significant suppliers. IGEL’s consumers can now convert their Wyse models C90LE and C90LEW at the operating-program level into defacto IGEL Universal Desktops and then use IGEL’s very own management solution to centrally and remotely manage them. The IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS), which comes normal with IGEL UDC devices, also consists of support for traditional PCs converted to thin clients. With this easy strategy for reaching desktop standardization, IGEL is assisting to cut expenses and safeguard investments in a lot of IT projects when it comes to IT centralization, desktop virtualization and cloud computing.

IGEL UDC on a USBIGEL’s UDC software package permits IT environments with mixed desktop hardware, such as PCs or thin clients from various suppliers, to be standardized at low cost. This enables them all to be efficiently and securely managed more than a network or over the Net by indicates of a single interface. The objective of this solution is to supply clients with a approach of standardizing and optimizing their desktop management. The IGEL UMS also enables straightforward and secure outsourcing of desktop management to an external service provider, a steadily rising trend with the newest centralization and cloud-computing projects.

“With the price savings that desktop standardization and standardized remote management brings, a lot of of our customers have been ready to cushion the impact of charges for centralization or VDI projects,” explains Simon Richards, UK General Manager IGEL Technologies. “Savings of up to 70% compared to Computer-primarily based workstations, help to balance out the investment and licensing costs incurred when centralizing and modernizing operations in the information center.”

IGEL’s Universal Desktop firmware, based on IGEL Linux, supports the primary desktop virtualization options Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View and Microsoft VDI as properly as Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Virtualization. In addition, the IGEL operating method firmware also allows direct access to conventional server-based computing solutions, such as Citrix XenApp™ or Microsoft® Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services including Remote Apps, the new REMOTE FX protocol and mainframe environments. Access to cloud computing services can be obtained by indicates of different regional software program customers as nicely as by way of the integrated internet browser.

Value, Availability and Models SupportedThe IGEL Universal Desktop Converter is available with the newest IGEL firmware packages, Entry, Normal and Advanced. Rates per license start at £24.50 plus VAT. Far more information on the models supported and the installation procedure is offered at: http://www.igel.com

About IGEL TechnologyIGEL Technology is one of the world’s biggest thin client vendors and is market place leader in its property nation of Germany. The business creates a single of the industry’s widest range of thin clients, primarily based on Linux and Microsoft Windows, giving clients access to nearly any type of server-based infrastructure and application including virtual desktops from VMware®, Citrix® Xen, RedHat or Microsoft®, terminal solutions, legacy applications through Ericom® PowerTerm® terminal emulation, net, Java, SAP and VoIP. Kind elements consist of classic desktops and integrated LCD units as properly as the world’s leading software package for Pc to TC conversion. IGEL Thin Customers come bundled at no extra cost with a remote management suite referred to as UMS that guarantees hassle free of charge and safe remote configuration and administration of thin customers as effectively as migrated PCs.