IGEL Migration Software Now Supports More Thin Clients

Thin client software from IGEL standardizes thin clients from all major manufacturers, now including those from Wyse. IGEL offers this universal IT access and standardized desktop management starting from 29 euros (plus VAT) per workstation.

The IGEL Universal Desktop Converter (UDC) available from Germany’s leading manufacturer of thin clients, IGEL Technology, now also supports thin clients from Wyse. With this step, the IGEL UDC now covers all major manufacturers. IGEL’s customers can now convert their Wyse models C90LE and C90LEW at the operatingsystem level into defacto IGEL Universal Desktops and then use IGEL’s own management solution to centrally and remotely manage them. The IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS), which comes standard with IGEL UDC devices, also includes support for conventional PCs converted to thin clients. With this convenient method for achieving desktop standardization, IGEL is helping to cut costs and safeguard investments in many IT projects when it comes to IT centralization, desktop virtualization and cloud computing.

IGEL’s UDC software allows IT environments with mixed desktop hardware, such as PCs or TCs from different manufacturers, to be standardized at low cost. This allows them all to be efficiently and securely managed over a network or over the Internet by means of one interface. The purpose of this solution is to provide customers with a method of standardizing and optimizing their desktop management. The IGEL UMS also allows easy and secure outsourcing of desktop management to an external service provider, a steadily increasing trend with the latest centralization and cloudcomputing project, In fact, market researchers at Techconsult predict that in 2011 German enterprises will spend more than 500 million euros on cloud services.

A.T.U Cuts Costs of Centralization

As an example, the German market leader in automobile services, A.T.U. (Auto-Teile-Unger/Unger Auto Parts) used the IGEL UDC to convert and repurpose 4,000 PCs into logical thin clients. By doing so, the company avoided the need for short-term hardware investments and standardized its client management. The resulting 20% savings in support costs is benefiting the further centralization of the IT at A.T.U. stores and service centers.

“With desktop standardization, standardized remote management and the cost savings that they bring, many of our customers have been able to cushion the impact of costs for centralization or VDI projects,” explains Florian Spatz, Product Marketing Manager at IGEL Technology. “Savings of up to 70% compared to PC-based workstations, which require a lot of maintenance and support, balance out the investment and licensing costs incurred when centralizing and modernizing operations in the data center.”

IGEL’s Universal Desktop firmware, based on IGEL Linux, supports the leading desktop virtualization solutions Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View and Microsoft VDI as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Virtualization. In addition, the IGEL operating system firmware also allows direct access to conventional server-based computing solutions (such as Citrix XenApp™ or Microsoft® Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services including RemoteApp) and mainframe environments. Access to cloud computing services can be obtained by means of various local software clients as well as through the integrated web browser.

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