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Together, IGEL and HP are offering more choices for end-users with proven HP thin clients that are factory-loaded with IGEL OS, the Linux-based managed endpoint operating system that is purpose-built for secure, high-fidelity access to digital workspaces on any cloud. To simplify the procurement, implementation, and support of next-generation thin clients, HP will optionally offer IGEL OS factory loaded on HP t430, t540 and t640 devices which are available directly through HP channel partners and distributors, globally.

“The global collaboration with HP is a breakthrough moment for IGEL as we work together to deliver increased capability and choice for thin client and cloud workspace users,” said Jed Ayres, CEO, IGEL. “With global alignment, and the mutual resource investments to back it, our strategic relationship will enable organizations of every size to benefit from the combination of HP hardware technology and innovative IGEL software to improve the end-user experience with seamless and secure access to business-critical applications in the cloud. HP certifying the IGEL OS on their t430, t540 and t640 platforms increases access to customers seeking a secure, high-performance option for their EUC environment.”

“The need for powerful, secure PCs that prioritize productivity and collaboration is more crucial than ever,” said Alex Thatcher, General Manager of Cloud Client Group, HP Inc. “HP is committed to empowering users everywhere and offers a comprehensive portfolio of secure, high-performance thin clients for cloud computing, virtual desktop infrastructure and beyond. Our work with IGEL showcases our support to provide users with choices for innovation that address their hybrid work needs.”

“Our most recent research indicates that virtual desktop interface (VDI) is primed for accelerated growth,” states IDC Research Vice President of Devices and Displays, Linn Huang. “The swift transition of many organizations to hybrid work models has made flexibility a chief priority in modern IT design. In turn, thin clients and digital workspaces will play an increasingly important role for enterprises.”

IGEL and HP have collaborated in response to demand from multiple large mutual customers (including retail, healthcare, and banking giants) who are already using the combined technology in the field. Testing and validation was performed through HP’s participation in the IGEL Ready program at the Strategic Platform Partner level. The two companies are also collaborating in the global  delivery and support of the integrated solutions.

“The ability to re-purpose existing HP endpoints using IGEL OS has benefited our organization in a couple of ways. First, the simplicity and ease of use associated with IGEL OS has saved us time and freed up valuable resources. Next, IGEL OS enables us to get more out of our existing hardware investments by extending the life of our HP endpoints,” said Daniel Carlisle, Architect Lead, Integris Health. “It’s a win-win for both our operational and technical teams.”

IGEL’s strategic relationship with HP is supported by industry vendors, channel partners, and distributors around the world. A collection of industry supporting quotes is available here.

Established in July 2020, IGEL Ready now includes more than 100 technology partners providing hardware, software, and peripheral solutions that have been verified for use with IGEL OS. HP is an inaugural partner in the new IGEL Ready Strategic Platform Level, which is offered to members by invitation only. The above integrations underscore how IGEL is helping businesses improve the end-user experience in the work-from-anywhere era. For more information, visit: https://www.igel.com/ready.

To view the HP Inc. partner profile, visit the IGEL Ready Showcase HP Inc. page here. To view HP Inc.’s product profile, visit HP Inc. IGEL and HP Inc. will also be featuring the new partnership during the IGEL DISRUPT events in late 2021 and 2022.

To learn more and start the IGEL Ready application process, visit igel.com/partners/technology-partners/.

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As industrial organizations look for more efficient ways to approach control system engineering, the need for a solution that can be adopted incrementally and used interchangeably with existing systems and infrastructure is of paramount importance. The Universal Thin Client Operating System will allow Experion PKS users to securely deploy a purpose-built thin client operating system with a rich management experience, while providing endpoint devices the peripheral and connectivity features needed for Experion PKS.

“Leveraging the IGEL Ready program, this collaboration will further advance Honeywell’s position as an industry leader in process control virtualization. IGEL’s edge operating system provides a secure, Linux-based thin client platform for Experion PKS while providing rich remote management capabilities that improve the lifecycle experience,” said Joe Bastone, Director, Experion Offering Management.

“By teaming together, Honeywell and IGEL are better able to deliver world-class solutions that meet our mutual customers’ requirements, as the IGEL Ready program was designed to foster collaboration and joint-solution development,” said Divya Saggar, Director, IGEL Ready.

The solution provides a secure experience for end-users using virtualization while significantly reducing the challenges traditionally associated with deploying thin client technology. The Universal Thin Client Operating System also allows for much stronger administration and management capabilities, which in turn allows users to save time and labor costs associated with maintaining their control systems.

For more information about the Universal Thin Client Operating System and Experion, https://www.honeywellprocess.com/experionpkshive.

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“We are very excited to be joining the IGEL Ready Program. With the hybrid work environment a given going forward for virtually all organizations, our two product technologies make great cost efficient sense for virtually every company,” said Brian Garoutte, CEO of MyCloudIT. “IGEL is a perfect fit for our existing customers and new logo additions.”

With the Azure cloud automating a number of tactical IT tasks with regard to desktops, solutions from IGEL and MyCloudIT bring lower costs and higher value to entities looking to deliver a high performing, secure and very reliable IT environment for all types of workloads.   For work at home/hybrid work solutions, IGEL’s focus and timing is impeccable in conjunction with Azure and the MyCloudIT platform.

“The future of enterprise computing is in the cloud and the IGEL Ready technology partner program makes it easy for any company to deploy their applications to virtual desktops and cloud workspaces, reaching a new and relevant market while also enabling world-class customer service,” said Divya Saggar, Director, IGEL Ready. “We welcome MyCloudIT to our growing ecosystem of more than 100 IGEL Ready partners as they become part of a powerful validation movement in the end user computing industry.”

Established in July 2020, IGEL Ready is a growing ecosystem of more than 100 technology partners providing hardware, software, and peripheral solutions that have been verified for use with IGEL OS to deliver a powerful, productive, and secure user experience for digital workspaces within modern workplace environments. In an era where customers and their employees require reliable, frictionless access to tools, applications, and services, IGEL Ready helps ensure product compatibility and productivity to support business continuity and growth. The IGEL Ready program ensures that partner applications are validated and shared, and that their customers have access to updated and secure software. This vibrant ecosystem enables customers to consider compatible devices and partner applications across eight categories in the IGEL Ready Showcase.

You can learn more in the MyCloudIT IGEL Ready Showcase page MyCloudIT Azure Management Platform – IGEL.  To start the IGEL Ready application process, visit igel.com/partners/technology-partners/. To explore the IGEL Ready ecosystem of solutions, visit igel.com/ready.

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AMD joined the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and others in unveiling the new Perlmutter supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors.

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As a validated solution in the security segment of the IGEL Ready program, VeridiumID delivers passwordless authentication for VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), DaaS (Desktop as a Service) and cloud workspaces. It enables organizations to eliminate passwords and/or legacy OTP token technology for user authentication. This enhances security and user experience while also reducing operating costs. The software-only platform has a front-end mobile application available from public stores or as a software development kit (SDK) and enables a broad variety of explicit and implicit authenticators to meet all customer and regulatory requirements.

“Veridium is excited to join the active and growing community of IGEL Ready partners,” said Ismet Geri, Chief Executive Officer, Veridium. “Device authentication is a critical component to any security strategy and is particularly important at the endpoint – whether in the cloud, VDI or DaaS. By validating VeridiumID for use with IGEL OS-powered devices, we are helping to provide a simple, yet powerful layer of security to safeguard applications and data from growing cyber threats.”

“The future of work requires secure access to cloud workspaces from anywhere on any device,” said Jed Ayres, Chief Executive Officer, IGEL. “Logging into corporate resources needs to be done without friction and with supreme confidence. IGEL and Veridium offer a true enterprise grade passwordless experience. We’re pleased that Veridium has joined our growing network of more than 100 IGEL Ready partners focused on delivering the industry’s best end user compute solutions.”

Now more than ever, providing customers and their employees with reliable, frictionless access to tools, applications, and services is critical for businesses continuity and growth. The IGEL Ready program ensures that partner applications are validated and shared, and that their customers have access to updated and secure software. This rapidly growing ecosystem of over 100 technology partners enables customers to consider compatible devices and partner applications across a range of categories in the customer-facing IGEL Ready Showcase.

To learn more and start the application process, visit igel.com/partners/technology-partners/.

To explore the IGEL Ready ecosystem of solutions, visit igel.com/ready.

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This study is a follow up to a September 2020 report to understand how consumer attitudes and usage of QR codes has evolved over the last year. The research demonstrates that consumer QR code usage has changed from convenience in a touchless world to practicality and necessity in new realms of our lives. Early in the pandemic, restaurants were using QR codes as menus or payment options, but as the pandemic continued throughout 2020, consumers used QR codes more frequently for practical things like visiting a doctor’s office or picking up a prescription – with an increase from 9% in 2020 to 14% in 2021. Meanwhile, social activities like dining out or enjoying a drink at a bar saw QR code usage decrease in that six-month period from 44% to 36%. Even offices and places of work saw an increase in usage going from 11% to 14% emphasizing the shift in how QR codes have been used during the pandemic. Consumers also grew more comfortable with QR codes that had a financial purpose. Sixty-five percent reported noticing an increase in places where QR codes can be used for payments, and 87% feel secure using a QR code to complete a financial transaction.

Many organizations have continued to allow their employees to work remotely due to the ongoing pandemic, increasing the importance of mobile devices for employees around the world. In the new “Everywhere Workplace,” distributed employees require access to corporate apps and data from any device, whenever and wherever they work. Despite the fact that 39% of consumers are relying on their phones more due to social distancing, only 51% of respondents claimed they have security software installed their mobile devices. Couple this with the lack of awareness of what a QR code can do once scanned, and the security threat increases significantly to both the user and their organization. In fact, 31% of respondents claimed that they had scanned a QR code that did something they were not expecting or were taken to a suspicious website.

See below for stats on how users could be putting themselves and their employers at risk by scanning QR codes:

• 47% or respondents claimed to know that a QR code can open a URL.
• However, only 37% were aware that a QR code can download an application and only 22% were aware that a QR code can give away physical location.
• Two thirds of respondents felt confident that they could identify a malicious URL, but only 39% stated they could identify a malicious QR code.
• 49% stated they either do not have or don’t know if they have security installed on their mobile device.

“As a result of the pandemic, employees are using their mobile devices more than ever before to access corporate data and services from any location,” Chris Goettl, senior director of product management at Ivanti. “As QR codes continue to increase in popularity and use, they will undoubtedly be leveraged more and more by cyberattackers to infiltrate devices and steal corporate data. This report underscores how critical it is that companies of all sizes prioritize mobile security for their employees, regardless if the device is company or employee owned. Organizations should implement Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) to defend mobile users against QRLjacking, phishing attacks, and to identify mobile OS or application vulnerabilities.”

Ivanti offers a Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solution that protects and remediates against known and unknown threats that target Android and iOS devices, including malicious QR codes. MTD provides the ideal deployment, detection, and remediation solution to defend against attacks that occur at the device, network, and application level. And there is no end user action required to deploy MTD on mobile devices that are enrolled in the Ivanti UEM client. As a result, organizations can achieve 100% user adoption without impacting productivity. Mobile Threat Defense is a critical part of a larger zero trust security strategy to assess and ensure good device hygiene.

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“When any company transitions to the cloud, it’s vital that their product teams are testing efficiently or it will be extremely costly,” said Martin Klaus, vice president of product marketing at Tricentis. “The Tricentis continuous testing platform enables companies like Extreme to increase the scope and speed of each product release through unified management and orchestration of all testing activities as part of their DevOps process. We’re excited for the results that Extreme has achieved with Tricentis, and we look forward to continuing to help them reach their goals of full-speed Agile transformation.”

Extreme acquired Aerohive in 2019, which had already implemented Tricentis qTest. The leadership team noted the increased efficiencies within the development team immediately, which led to the company adopting qTest enterprise-wide for all product teams.

Extreme has since committed to Agile principles to deliver innovation faster and more efficiently through the usage of products like Jira. However, the company faced various challenges to adoption as their legacy test case management tool was not capable of integrating into Jira. These issues created extensive manual work of 30 minutes-plus per report per day for both engineers and managers, as well as a testing bottleneck, causing delays in release times for both products and features.

Recognizing that Jira was not built for test management, Extreme implemented Tricentis qTest and its best-in-class Jira integration capabilities to assist in reducing workloads for engineers and developers. Through Tricentis qTest, their developers have increased visibility and traceability that allows them to see the results of test runs instantly. Through this improved efficiency in the feedback loop, their team has been able to greatly reduce release times from quarterly to monthly over the course of four to six months.

“As the world continues to shift to the cloud, we need to get as many platforms working in the cloud wireless environment as quickly as possible,” noted Kevin Lin, Director of Cloud & Wireless QA at Extreme Networks. “Tricentis qTest has been a critical tool for us to be able to achieve that from both a test perspective and organizational program perspective.”

For more information on Tricentis and how organizations are accelerating toward cloud-based Agile transformation with automated testing, visit https://www.tricentis.com/customer-stories/.

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“Remote work isn’t the ‘new normal’; it’s now just normal. This change in workstyle has placed challenges in the path of IT, as they have to now manage not just several offices or branches, but innumerable remote work locations,” said Yoni Avital, COO and Co-Founder at ControlUp. “Previously, system administrators were unable to factor in local performance issues to diagnose system problems. Now, we are able to provide the data they had been missing to optimize the employee digital experience.” ControlUp has added the following capabilities to its VMware Horizon solutions portfolio:

• ControlUp Remote DX – end-to-end visibility into the employee digital experience, regardless of their location, by monitoring local network performance, including Wi-Fi strength and speed, as well as user device ISP connectivity measurements.
• ControlUp Scoutbees – continuous synthetic transaction testing that proactively alerts IT of issues related to the availability and performance of applications, desktops and network resources. The solution allows IT Operations teams to quickly identify the cause of any problems and address them before user productivity is impacted.
• ControlUp SOLVE – the overall health of the end user computing (EUC) environment visualized, end-to-end, on a single dashboard in real time, including the ability to drill down to see detailed metrics for a particular aspect of the infrastructure, all the way down to the users’ session process level.

The ControlUp digital experience monitoring and optimization platform gives IT flexibility and control, making it possible for them to monitor Horizon virtual desktops and applications, and the Horizon infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud. The solution delivers out-of-the-box automation and remediation workflows that reduce the time, effort, and cost involved in identifying, troubleshooting, and remediating VDI issues. ControlUp combines information retrieved from VMware Horizon’s API, providing deep visibility into the entire virtualization stack, including hosts, storage, network, and user sessions.

“Troubleshooting and fast remediation of VDI issues are challenging due to the multitude of components involved, from the data center, to the cloud, to the endpoint,” said Bharath Rangarajan, Vice President of Product Management for VMware’s End User Computing business. “VMware and ControlUp are collaborating to address these issues and deliver a great user experience consistently to VMware Horizon customers.”

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