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IGEL OS 12 Integrates SSO Authentication with VMware Workspace ONE

Taylor Graham — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 11:00:55 +0000

At VMware Explore Barcelona, IGEL announced that IGEL OS 12 Single Sign-On (SSO) now seamlessly supports VMware Identity Services for authentication to VMware Workspace ONE Access. This enhancement streamlines the process of securely accessing digital workspaces, cloud applications, and data. With IGEL’s new support for VMware Identity Services, user experiences are enhanced, leading to improved productivity and more robust privilege access control, all managed through a centralized VMware Workspace ONE interface.

IGEL has integrated the advanced IGEL OS 12 SSO technology with VMware Identity Services enabling users to logon once to VMware Horizon using a SCIM 2.0-based cloud identity solution including Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), Okta or other SCIM 2.0-compliant technology. Secure access and policy control for the IGEL OS-powered endpoints is centralized through the VMware Workspace ONE unified endpoint management solution delivering granular privilege management in a single view. Once logged in, further user authentication is not required to access a virtual desktop, published cloud desktop or application, simplifying the user experience and securing critical business data.

“In an era where cyberthreats are ever present, delivering security at the endpoint is one of IT’s top priorities,” said Matthias Haas, Chief Technology Officer, IGEL. “IGEL is addressing this priority with the advanced SSO technology users need to accelerate productivity while minimizing the endpoint attack surface. Working closely with VMware, IGEL has integrated our advanced SSO technology with VMware Identity Services to streamline the user experience while delivering the secure privileged access organizations require to protect their critical apps and data. It’s one more way IGEL is adding value to VMware users.”

“Our longstanding partnership with IGEL continues to deliver valuable innovations for our mutual customers,” said Terry Vaughn, Director Global EUC Business Development, VMware. “Our integration between IGEL OS, Imprivata and VMware, for example, gives healthcare customers the rapid time-to-value they need for secure, agile computing at the endpoint. Now, our joint integration of SSO technology delivers a single, unified solution to protecting our customers’ critical end user computing infrastructure so users can work securely and effortlessly from anywhere.”

The VMware Identity Services support will be generally available this quarter in the latest release of IGEL OS 12, as part of the IGEL COSMOS secure endpoint platform. Using the new feature, users are able to boot to a VMware authentication screen which will authenticate them with session tokens that enable secure access to the apps and services that the VMware environment supports. Once authenticated, users will be able to access a VMware Workspace ONE app catalog and launch directly into VMware Horizon Cloud, as well as any other authorized applications, without any additional login. Find out more information on how VMware and IGEL can provide all the tools users need to be productive – from anywhere – while reducing cost and increasing security with IGEL OS 12 Single Sign-On (SSO).

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Dizzion Announces IBM Cloud for Financial Services

Digital IT News Editors — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:32:31 +0000

Dizzion announced the release of Dizzion’s new Digital Workspaces for Financial Services available on IBM Cloud for Financial Services. With IBM’s built-in security and compliance capabilities, third-party partners, institutions, and vendors can protect sensitive systems and data and unlock the modern workforce to create flexibility in how and where they engage hybrid, distributed, and third and fourth-party teams.

Today, financial institutions are increasingly charged with managing risk, security, compliance, and data privacy, as they look to address the evolving regulatory requirements of the financial services industry. By offering its Digital Workspace solution on IBM Cloud for Financial Services, IBM is helping Dizzion address the challenges of securing hybrid workforces and mission-critical workloads, while prioritizing resiliency and performance and helping more efficiently demonstrate regulatory compliance.

Dizzion’s Digital Workspaces for Financial Services, collaborated on through the IBM and VMware Joint Innovation Lab, aims to offer an exceptional value proposition – from efficient migration to this framework for existing clients to providing a solutions for new challenges and opportunities for new clients. The offering has been validated by the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services, an industry-defined security and compliance control framework. This framework was built in collaboration with the IBM Financial Services Cloud Council, a 130-plus member group representing more than 70 entities to help mitigate systemic risk across the financial services industry. Only technology providers that have evidenced compliance with the Framework are eligible to deliver offerings with the IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validated designation.

“By leveraging the common controls framework of IBM Cloud for Financial Services, Dizzion is able to support financial institutions and their third-party vendors unlike ever before,” said Steve Prather, CEO of Dizzion. “We are now able to address specific financial services compliance requirements and drive rapid cloud adoption while exponentially increasing innovation for our clients across the sector.”

“Financial Institutions are moving to the cloud, creating complexity in accessing their mission critical applications while still providing more secure access to their sensitive data,” said Bharath Rangarajan, General Manager of VDI/Desktop-as-a-Service, VMware. “Dizzion, supported by IBM and VMware, aims to solve these challenges by delivering a performant and secure, managed DaaS solution powered by VMware Horizon with their new Digital Workspaces for Financial Services solution.”

The innovative capabilities of IBM Cloud for Financial Services provide a broad foundation for this collaboration to address the industry’s unique cybersecurity and evolving compliance requirements. Designed for regulated workloads, the platform aims to help address regulatory barriers that can impede IT landscape and modernization efforts.

“Today’s workplace is continuously transforming as enterprises need to accelerate digital transformation to further bridge the divide between digital and physical borders to enable the flexibility to work from anywhere and everywhere,” said Alan Peacock, General Manager, IBM Cloud Platform. “However, security capabilities need to be an integral part of this transformation journey to protect sensitive data without interrupting business performance. IBM Cloud for Financial Services is designed to deliver the levels of resiliency, security, performance, and compliance needed to drive application modernization and help improve customer experience.”

IBM Cloud infrastructure and VMware’s Horizon software helps Dizzion support financial services institutions and their third-party vendors help optimize their end-user operations and enhance data security, as part of their digital transformation. Dizzion, IBM, and VMware work together towards the goal of empowering the financial services sector enhance acceleration of cloud adoption with advanced levels of resiliency, performance, security, and agility.

For more information visit the website here.

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Summit Leaders Collaborate to Accelerate Confidential Computing Adoption

Taylor Graham — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:00:47 +0000

In conjunction with Confidential Computing Summit 2023, VMware, Inc. announced that it is joining forces with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V Keystone community to simplify the development and operations of confidential computing applications. These industry and community leaders will work together to ease the transition by collaborating on and contributing to the open source Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing project.

Ecosystem Support Builds for Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing

To help democratize confidential computing, VMware researched, developed and open sourced the developer-focused Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing project. By standardizing on an easy-to-use, platform-independent API for creating and operating confidential computing applications, AMD, Samsung and VMware aim to address a significant barrier to its adoption.

Confidential computing is based on an emerging processor concept called a “trusted execution environment” that maintains the confidentiality and integrity of programs and data even when workloads are deployed in the cloud or infrastructure (such as the edge) that may be operated by others. Uniform security protections based on confidential computing are expected to be increasingly important in the context of multi-cloud deployments. Also, in the context of emerging workloads like machine learning, confidential computing can play a special role in protecting the intellectual property and proprietary data related to the foundation models and code, proprietary model derivatives, and private training data. Although this concept is an enormous advancement for security and privacy, like many hardware features, it will not be widely adopted until it becomes easier to develop applications in the new paradigm.

The Certifier Framework vastly simplifies the development of more secure cloud workloads, secret-keeping services, and privacy-preserving applications including an emerging class of machine learning and “data economy” workloads that are based on sensitive data and models aggregated from multiple sources. The framework provides platform-independent support for specifying and enforcing trust policies that can better secure workloads across on-prem and third-party infrastructure, including the telco edge, multi-cloud environments, and sovereign clouds. By collectively advancing and contributing to the open source Certifier Framework, the companies and community members aim to effectively standardize on a set of developer APIs that will benefit the entire industry by accelerating the adoption of confidential computing as it becomes available in the x86, Arm, and RISC-V ecosystems.

“Confidential Computing has the potential to secure workloads no matter where they run including in multi-cloud and edge settings,” said Kit Colbert, CTO, VMware. “The challenge has been to help customers adopt and implement the standard with ease. The collective efforts of the growing ecosystem of contributors to Certifier Framework will help bring those benefits to bear to ISVs, enterprise customers, and Sovereign Cloud providers—enabling them to use this emerging technology more easily and effectively.”

VMware at the Confidential Computing Summit 2023

The certifier’s capabilities, representative of VMware’s commitment to the future of multi-cloud security, are being highlighted at today’s Confidential Computing Summit. VMware along with other contributors to the Certifier Framework project will show demos of client/cloud confidential computing in compelling machine learning use cases. In particular, the demos will showcase “universal” client-cloud trust management across heterogeneous TEEs including AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP), SGX, CCA, and RISC-V.

Supporting Quotes

“AMD is a pioneer of advanced hardware-based security features such as AMD Infinity Guard, with built-in capabilities like Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), in our EPYC data center processors,” said Raghu Nambiar, corporate vice president, Data Center Ecosystems and Solutions, AMD. “Collaborating with industry partners, like VMware, is critical for accelerating adoption of confidential computing and securing workloads in the cloud. No matter the size or technical sophistication of an organization, or where a workload is deployed, the Certifier Framework will help more customers realize the benefits of confidential computing.”

“Samsung is committed to extending confidential computing to endpoints through their Islet interface to the Arm CCA architecture,” said Yong Ho Hwang, VP and Head of Security & Privacy Team at Samsung Electronics. “We are pleased to be a supporter of the Certifier Framework and share the common goal of accelerating the adoption of confidential computing through a developer-friendly API for confidential computing trust management.”

“Keystone brings the benefits of open source to the confidential computing hardware community,” said Krste Asanovic, Professor, Computer Science Division, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley. “We are pleased to leverage the Certifier Framework to help confidential computing developers maintain choice over platform selection as our capabilities evolve.”

For more information about VMware, please visit the website HERE and AMD HERE and Samsung HERE.

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Google Workspace Extends Security and Device Management for Hybrid Work

Taylor Graham — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:00:42 +0000

Google Cloud announced a series of new security alliances to bring more choice, capability, and simplicity to enterprise and public sector IT teams tasked with managing hybrid work at scale.

Google Workspace comes with industry-leading security built into its cloud-native, zero trust architecture. These capabilities combine threat defenses powered by Google AI, client-side encryption, data privacy controls, and simple access to Google Cloud cybersecurity products like BeyondCorp Enterprise and Chronicle Security Operations, to automatically stop the vast majority of online threats before they emerge—while also supporting customers’ regulatory and sovereignty needs. Through its ecosystem of cybersecurity partners, Google Workspace can extend these capabilities further by combining them with tools from the industry’s leading security companies, enabling customers to adopt comprehensive, secure collaboration solutions to meet their specific security needs as part of a single Google Workspace offering.

“Global enterprises want to provide their workforces with more effective and secure ways of collaborating, with tools that increase productivity and avoid the vulnerabilities of legacy productivity solutions,” said Sunil Potti, VP and GM of cloud security, Google Cloud. “Through its growing ecosystem of security partners, Google Workspace offers the most enterprise-ready platform for hybrid work, providing organizations with confidence and flexibility to work securely.”

Securing Enterprise Workforces with Okta and VMware
Today, Google Cloud is extending the built-in identity, device, and access management capabilities of Google Workspace through new alliances with Okta and VMware, enabling large-scale businesses and public sector organizations to provide their workforces with FedRAMP-authorized collaboration and communication tools. Google Workspace works seamlessly with the enterprise-grade identity and access management capabilities in Okta Workforce Identity Cloud and the device and application management capabilities in VMware Workspace ONE, providing organizations with more choice and flexibility in how they enable safer collaboration for their workforce.

Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud brings Okta’s leading identity and access management capabilities to Google Workspace customers, securely connecting employees, contractors, and business partners from any device and any location. Workforce Identity Cloud’s flexible rules and policies ensure employees have just the right level of access they need to get their work done. With Okta, employees can use their Google Workspace credentials across more than 7,000 pre-built apps in the Okta Integration Network to reduce password sprawl for increased security.
VMware Workspace ONE extends VMware’s industry-leading unified endpoint management and zero trust access capabilities to Google Workspace. IT teams can manage all Google Workspace apps through VMware’s comprehensive platform, which provides users with quick and easy access to business applications and makes it simple for administrators to onboard devices, change configurations, push automated OS updates, and more, without requiring a combination of disjointed third-party solutions. Workspace ONE administrators can also access a collection of device-health dashboards and reports, along with multi-tenancy for management across geographies, organizations, and use cases.

“Identity is the connective tissue between a business’s ecosystem of people and the technologies they need to be successful in hybrid and remote work,” said Arnab Bose, chief product officer, Workforce Identity Cloud at Okta. “This partnership allows us to bring identity-powered security to Google Workspace customers while giving them an easy button to optimize their employee experiences and increase operational efficiency.”

“The rapid shift to hybrid work has highlighted the need for IT teams to do more with less, while simultaneously balancing the increasing demands of security and productivity,” said Renu Upadhyay, VP of product marketing, End-User Computing, VMware. “This VMware and Google Cloud partnership unlocks a transformative approach to end-user computing by creating an automated, unified, and secure experience across all endpoints, apps, and enterprise services, no matter where employees work.”

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JumpCloud Open Directory Platform provides customers with an alternative directory service to replace aging Microsoft Active Directory servers that is a modern, cloud-based solution. The platform works seamlessly with Google Workspace, enabling identity workflows and synchronization to thousands of applications, HRIS systems, and cloud infrastructure. It also combines these features with desktop and mobile device fleet management capabilities to ensure secure, frictionless access to applications and other resources from any operating system or location an employee chooses to work from.

“IT teams are looking for solutions that centralize access, device, and identity management. They need easier and more effective ways to secure how work happens,” said Greg Keller, CTO and co-founder, JumpCloud. “The Google Cloud and JumpCloud solution gives IT teams a modern and affordable option to securely manage today’s work on-prem, in the cloud or on the go. This offering provides IT teams, and channel IT solution providers, a more affordable, best in class alternative to expensive, legacy Microsoft packages.”

Google Workspace’s Flexible, Secure Ecosystem
Google Workspace is committed to offering more choice by providing organizations of any size with the ability to combine purpose-built security tools from its ecosystem of cybersecurity partners. New updates with JumpCloud, Okta, and VMware will build on existing offerings with CrowdStrike, which extends endpoint protection and Zero Trust through the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, and Palo Alto Networks, which extends endpoint protection and Zero Trust through Prisma Access and Cortex XDR. Over the coming year, deeper technical integrations with these partners will expand the joint capabilities available to Google Workspace customers, making it even easier to adopt Google Workspace for organizations with the most rigorous security and regulatory requirements.

Google Workspace security and trust interested customers can learn more HERE.

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Modernize Workloads in Regulated Industries with VMware and IBM

Taylor Graham — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 22:22:10 +0000

VMware Inc. and IBM announced at VMware Explore 2022 an expanded partnership to help global clients and partners modernize mission-critical workloads and expedite time to value in hybrid cloud environments. The expanded relationship includes IBM Consulting as a VMware GSI partner, the companies’ intent to deliver new jointly engineered IBM and VMware Cloud solutions and joint development and go to market. Together, IBM and VMware are planning to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

Companies, including those in regulated industries, are looking to modernize core business workloads to create better experiences for their clients and comply with industry regulations. Further, the current economic climate makes refactoring applications for cloud unrealistic for many organizations, driving increased emphasis on a more agile modernization strategy. The planned IBM and VMware offerings are intended to increase choice and flexibility for companies to execute their digital transformation strategies.

“In today’s market, organizations want to modernize and transform operations quickly. But modernization and innovation cannot come at the cost of security and trust built with clients,” said Howard Boville, Head of IBM Cloud Platform. “Together, IBM and VMware are supporting our mutual clients in regulated industries by offering something no two other companies are delivering– to more easily leverage hybrid cloud services securely — wherever and however they wish to run them.”

“With IBM and VMware, our customers get a combination of innovation and consulting experience based on decades of close collaboration and experience in meeting the business challenges of thousands of customers around the world,” said Mark Lohmeyer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, cloud infrastructure business group, VMware. “This ongoing collaboration will enable us to better streamline the user experience for our mutual enterprise customers looking to run VMware mission critical workloads that require higher levels of security, resiliency and compliance support in financial services and regulated industries.”

Ecosystem partnerships such as the one between IBM and VMware are critical to helping some of the world’s most influential companies modernize their workloads with a focus on security and efficiency, while providing choice in how to deploy and manage them. Today’s news builds on the companies’ longstanding relationship, having collaborated over the past 20 years to help clients realize their technology goals.

The companies’ expanded partnership includes:

IBM Consulting named Global Systems Integrator (GSI) for VMware — As part of the expanded partnership, IBM Consulting is now a GSI Partner for VMware to help clients accelerate their business transformation and hybrid cloud journeys. IBM Consulting will provide services to migrate, modernize and manage clients’ most important workloads across any hybrid, multi-cloud environment in an open, more secured way. This is critical for clients who are running applications across more than one cloud and are looking for the deep skills and expertise required to help with the security, management and reliability needed in these environments.

Expansion of VMware and IBM Joint Innovation Fund — Since launching the IBM and VMware Joint Innovation Lab in 2018, 20 hybrid cloud and AI-focused projects have been completed to extend the capabilities of IBM Cloud and address client needs for mission-critical VMware workloads. For example, the creation of a VMware-enabled reference architecture was developed and integrated into IBM Cloud for Financial Services offerings. The Lab brings together engineering, sales, marketing and enablement capabilities from both companies and is a co-innovation engine for solving client problems. The new agreement will expand the Lab’s innovation pipeline for another three years with funding for the development of joint products and solutions.

Availability of IBM Cloud Satellite wherever VMware Applications run — IBM and VMware are collaborating to enable IBM Cloud Satellite for VMware. For workloads that need to remain on-premises, IBM Cloud Satellite now supports VMware workloads in any environment where they run, bringing the enhanced security and open innovation of IBM Cloud services to the client’s datacenter. IBM Cloud Satellite brings a secured and unified layer of cloud services for clients, in any environment.

To learn more about how IBM and VMware are enabling clients to modernize within hybrid environments, please visit: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware.

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O-RAN Adoption Bolstered by P.I. Works and VMware

Taylor Graham — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 20:47:13 +0000

P.I. Works has announced its rApps are now interoperable with VMware’s Non-Real-Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) platform, which will allow for the efficient automation and optimization of both existing and Open RAN mobile network elements. The solution will enable operators to make the shift toward introducing O-RAN into their existing networks.

With 5G technologies being widely deployed across the globe, O-RAN is poised to become the first choice of operators as they overhaul their current Radio Access Networks, especially given it is designed to accommodate multi-vendor equipment through open interfaces. As such, as RAN evolves from the current architecture to Open RAN, automated network management via a standardized Radio Intelligence Controller (RIC) will become essential for CSPs in abstracting the complexity of their heterogeneous networks and thus improving customer experience.

Lakshmi Mandyam, Vice President of Product Management and Partner Ecosystems, Service Provider & Edge, VMware said, “We are committed to delivering world-class network management solutions that not just meet, but exceed customer expectations. Our collaboration with P.I. Works adds advanced automation and optimization capabilities to RIC platform to help service providers make the most of their RAN modernization efforts.”

Djakhongir Siradjev, Chief Technology Officer at P.I. Works noted: “As a global provider of mobile network automated management solutions, P.I. Works has always seen the need for open and standardized network landscapes in order to achieve the interoperability and thus efficiency needed to maximize subscriber experiences. We believe that our collaboration with VMware will pave way for this within the O-RAN ecosystem and drive innovation to build a better, more sustainable future for the industry.”

To learn more about P.I. Works visit the website here.

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VMware Workspace ONE for Linux Now Has Support From IGEL

Taylor Graham — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:24:33 +0000

IGEL, provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, announced support for VMware Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for Linux, which facilitates communication between IGEL OS-powered devices and the Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) console. As a result, mutual VMware and IGEL customers can now simplify device management from a single view for greater visibility and compliance of devices across the enterprise.

“With the development of Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for Linux, VMware has affirmed its view of the importance of Linux devices at the endpoint,” said Bill McCarthy, Vice President, Business Development, IGEL. “IGEL is pleased to deliver rapid support for the Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for Linux to empower its customers with unified visibility to improve their endpoint asset management, productivity and insights. This is another landmark step in our strategic journey to deliver greater integration for VMware Horizon users as they leverage the anywhere workspace for a productive and engaging user experience.”

Thousands of IGEL customers already use IGEL OS to securely access VMware Horizon desktops and workloads every day. The expansion of the partnership extends the value of Workspace ONE to include IGEL OS endpoints, regardless of where they are located.

“IGEL is a valuable VMware partner and we are pleased to see the delivery of their support for Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for Linux,” said Jason Roszak, Vice President of Product Management, End-User Computing, VMware. “Linux devices are a strategic component in the fabric of today’s enterprise environments and we are excited to empower customers that have embraced IGEL OS with a simple and more secure solution to manage their apps and devices in a single view. Using Workspace ONE Intelligence and data aggregation, our mutual customers can better manage enterprise complexity and security without compromising on user experience.”

“We believe there is a tremendous value that can be derived from the partnerships and alliances formed between our key vendor partners, and IGEL’s collaboration with VMware and support for VMware Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for Linux is a great example of this,” said Mike Strohl, CEO, Entisys360. “Through this alliance, Entisys360 is able to grow our IGEL business further by providing our mutual customers with the ability to simply and securely manage their Workspace ONE desktops and workloads powered by IGEL OS. This unified visibility of both apps and devices improves the end user experience and overall organizational productivity, two significant challenges our customers are solving for in their IT infrastructure environments.”

Support for the VMware Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for Linux will be available as a custom partition which can be deployed to IGEL OS devices allowing them to be enrolled into Workspace ONE. This enables IGEL OS and Workspace ONE to offer management capabilities that include asset management and insights for IT productivity and compliance processes. The two companies are also collaborating on cloud connector technology for IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) and VMware Workspace ONE UEM which will deliver increased management insights and policy-based control for VMware Horizon and IGEL users.

This new IGEL development with VMware is the latest in a long-standing technology partnership between the two companies. Earlier this year, IGEL announced that its product would support VMware Horizon 2106 Microsoft Teams optimization for Linux to support high-fidelity connectivity and collaboration using IGEL OS-powered endpoints. A year ago, IGEL announced its validation of IGEL OS with VMware Horizon 8 and that it has renewed its Advanced tier membership in VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. VMware is also a strategic member of the IGEL Ready technology partner program which validates and verifies interoperability of solutions .

For more information about using IGEL OS with VMware Horizon, please visit www.igel.com/vmware.

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DISRUPT Unite Roadshow for End User Computing and Digital Workspaces Professionals Hosted by IGEL Featuring 20 Sponsors Including AWS, Citrix, Microsoft and VMware

Taylor Graham — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:37:14 +0000

IGEL, provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces and renowned for hosting DISRUPT EUC events since 2018, announced that it will kick off its live DISRUPT Unite Cloud Workspaces Forum Roadshow with one-day events planned across cities in the United States and Europe starting September 23 in London. Offering end user computing (EUC) professionals unparalleled insights into the technologies, best practices, and innovations to support digital workers in the new “work from anywhere” (WFX) world, the DISRUPT Roadshow will reveal new ways for attendees and their organizations to empower a more distributed and highly mobile workforce to be more productive than ever.

“We work in a changed world which has transformed end user computing, as it needs to enable digital workers to achieve better access to applications and data for a productive experience from anywhere, and from almost any device,” said Enit Nichani, Vice President of Global Alliance and Event Marketing, IGEL. “We will be highlighting new technologies, strategies, and opportunities for computing in the new WFX era during this live roadshow installation of our flagship DISRUPT event series. Despite hosting dozens of successful virtual events over the past 18 months, there has been significant demand for intimate, in-person regional events to bring the EUC community together again. We are thrilled that, for the first time since February 2020, we are returning to face-to-face events with planned stops in 11 cities. We’ll be bringing industry experts close to home for the inspirational and insightful presentations EUC professionals won’t want to miss.”

The roadshow will visit 11 cities during September and October 2021. Locations include:

London, September 23
Frankfurt, September 30
Munich, October 5
Vienna, October 7
Zurich, October 12
Charlotte, October 12
Chicago, October 13
Dallas, October 14
New York, October 20
Los Angeles, October 21
Utrecht, October 27

“DISRUPT is the one of the biggest and best independent events in the EUC calendar which brings together a number of ecosystem partners, customers and community partners,” said James Hsu, Product Manager for Citrix Systems. “I have attended both North America and EMEA events in the past and I am really pleased to be presenting at these in person events to share more about the future of Citrix Digital Workspaces.”

The event will feature inspirational keynote addresses and insightful breakout sessions as well as lively panel discussions on EUC strategies in the WFX era. The event expo will also provide first-hand technical access to product and service information from event sponsors, including AWS, Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, ControlUp, DeviceTRUST, EPOS, ezeep, Lakeside, Lenovo, LG Business Solutions, Liquidware, LoginVSI, Nerdio, PrinterLogic, Process Fusion, NComputing, OnLogic, Tricerat and IGEL.

Registration for the roadshow event is available now at https://disrupteuc.com/unite-2021. Be sure to register soon, as IGEL is giving away a commemorative DISRUPT backpack to registered attendees while supplies last. Note that this is a vaccination-required event.

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VMware Accelerates Healthcare Providers’ Cloud Services Adoption

Taylor Graham — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:15:52 +0000

In the wake of the global pandemic, healthcare providers are expanding their telehealth offerings and increasingly opting to host these and other remote patient monitoring and analytics workloads in the cloud. To help ease the transition to the cloud, VMware announced GE Healthcare will leverage VMware SD-WAN, now part of VMware SASE, to seamlessly deliver cloud-based services to GE Healthcare customers.

“GE Healthcare offers a suite of precision healthcare applications that are both on-premises and cloud-based. OnWatch Network Edge provides an easy way to deploy these large-scale integrations quickly and more securely. VMware’s SD-WAN technology enables reliable deployment of latency-sensitive and data-intensive applications”

“Patient monitoring and diagnostic data analysis are moving from the datacenter to the edge. With this shift, healthcare providers and their technology partners require a software-defined, high-performing, secure network,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “VMware SD-WAN provides this network overlay to prioritize and move high-fidelity, latency-sensitive data to the cloud and between edge locations. Leveraging VMware SD-WAN enables GE Healthcare to offer rapid, more securely deployed, and easily accessed virtual care solutions.”

GE Healthcare recently launched OnWatch Network Edge to assist customers that consume GE Healthcare’s cloud-hosted services. To rapidly deliver these services to customers without compromising quality of service or security of patient data, GE Healthcare leverages VMware SD-WAN with OnWatch Network Edge. VMware is the first SD-WAN partner to integrate its technology with OnWatch Network Edge in this manner.

“GE Healthcare offers a suite of precision healthcare applications that are both on-premises and cloud-based. OnWatch Network Edge provides an easy way to deploy these large-scale integrations quickly and more securely. VMware’s SD-WAN technology enables reliable deployment of latency-sensitive and data-intensive applications,” said Paul Jones, Global Product Manager for GE Healthcare.

This is not the first time VMware and GE Healthcare have teamed up. GE Healthcare previously integrated VMware’s AIOps solution, Edge Network Intelligence, with its OnWatch Network Performance solution that helps healthcare providers proactively analyze and monitor their enterprise and clinical networks.

To learn more about VMware SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) that delivers VMware SD-WAN, among other networking and security services, as well as how VMware is working with healthcare customers:

Visit https://sase.vmware.com/.
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Whitehat Virtual Launches Titanium HCI to Support Citrix and VMware VDI Environments Out-of-the-Box

Olivia Rowan — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:49:29 +0000

Whitehat Virtual, released Titanium HCI, its flagship hyperconverged virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) appliance for both Citrix and VMware Horizon environments. The new hyperconverged appliance delivers scalability and full lifecycle management and support for Citrix and VMware VDI environments.

Offering a complete, self-contained system to deliver hardware, software and management, Titanium HCI delivers everything Citrix and VMware Horizon users need to be successful, including better performance and a great end-user experience while lowering the total cost of ownership.

“The majority of virtual desktop users are frustrated with the cost, complexity and performance of their VDI environment,” said Val King, President and CEO, Whitehat Virtual. “Many continue to throw more tools and software at the problem, only to add to their management complexity and headaches. Companies need worry-free ongoing solutions, not band-aid fixes, that are guaranteed to work with leading-edge technology without escalating cost options. Titanium HCI offers everything VDI users need, for life. It represents the culmination of all our experienced team knows about building, managing, and supporting the use of virtual desktops by thousands of end users every day, from the simplest environment to most graphic-intensive, requiring NVIDIA vGPU to get the VDI end-user experience right.”

Built on the strength of Dell EMC and VMware vSAN Ready Nodes, Titanium HCI delivers scalability and easy hardware management and support. The solution provides the stability and performance benefits of best practices learned from more than 1,500 optimizations cataloged by the Whitehat Virtual team’s proven experience. Additional benefits offered by Titanium HCI include:

Sub 30-second VDI user logins
No performance bottlenecks
Automatic issue resolution
Fixed, predictable cost
No capital expenditure on software or hardware
Zero-cost Citrix and VMware upgrades
Fully deployed and managed

Designed for users that want to simplify their VDI environment or are looking for a quick and easy way to stand one up for the first time, Whitehat Virtual’s Titanium HCI packs everything that’s needed in a fully managed hyperconverged appliance. The solution is fully supported by the Whitehat Virtual team including:

Unlimited experts as required to address all issues immediately
Unlimited upgrades as necessary to maintain current protection and operation
Dedicated software for unlimited communication between customers and Whitehat Virtual experts
Unlimited resolution of challenges and network issues

Whitehat Virtual customer Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics (CTPO) has reduced their VDI support issues by 68% since migrating to Titanium HCI infrastructure. “Our old IT infrastructure could not keep up with the demands of the practice. Whitehat’s Titanium solution was perfect for our needs,” said Cindy White, Practice Administrator for CTPO. “After migrating to the Whitehat Titanium HCI infrastructure, our environment is 100% faster and more responsive. That means we can spend more time focusing on what really matters, the children in our care.”

Whitehat Virtual’s Titanium HCI is available now. For more information, visit: www.whitehatvirtual.com or register for a demo here to experience “VDI that’s Easy as Pie.”

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