MUNICH, February 15, 2023 – IGEL, supplier of the managed endpoint working system for safe entry to any digital workspace, at this time introduced IGEL COSMOS. Unveiled at DISRUPT23 – The Final World EUC occasion in Munich, COSMOS is a unified, agile platform to securely handle and automate the supply of digital workspaces, from any cloud. Providing a modular structure, granular endpoint management and end-user freedom, COSMOS is designed to allow organizations to garner the total energy of current-day and future clouds with in depth management, whereas powering nice consumer experiences for at this time’s hybrid work.
Essentially the most vital new development with IGEL COSMOS is that, for the primary time, IGEL is totally separating the bottom IGEL OS from its validated and built-in purposes and interfaces, whereas including an extra separate element within the type of value-added cloud companies. Collectively, these three very important elements comprise IGEL COSMOS. This modular structure of “separate however equal” parts of endpoint working system, administration and management, and cloud companies permits most IT flexibility in introducing or enhancing apps, desktops, companies, and another type of cloud-delivered digital workspaces because the cloud continues to evolve.
That includes in depth administration and management powered by the brand new IGEL UMS 12, the following technology of the IGEL Common Administration Suite (UMS), COSMOS permits the parallel use, administration and management of endpoints operating each IGEL OS 11 and the brand new IGEL OS 12 working system. New cloud companies, that are de-coupled from the OS, embrace the IGEL App Portal for use-case particular software program purposes provided from IGEL software program companions and obtainable for seamless obtain and implementation. Further cloud companies embrace the IGEL Onboarding Service, IGEL Perception Service, and different companies and portals all designed to boost effectiveness and consumer experiences for each IT professionals and finish customers.
“Immediately’s workspaces are hybrid. Hybrid work, hybrid clouds and hybrid purposes. Whereas VDI and DaaS proceed to offer organizations the most secure method to ship safe entry to home windows consumer server purposes, a transition to SaaS and web-based purposes has already began. IT organizations want to ensure they will evolve at their optimum tempo and on the identical time, allow workers seamless, but safe entry to their cloud workspaces,” stated Matthias Haas, Chief Expertise Officer, IGEL. “The COSMOS platform has been designed for this new period of hybrid work. With a brand new modularized model of IGEL OS, a brand new model of our UMS administration platform coupled with new cloud companies that reach capabilities and improve consumer experiences, COSMOS permits unmatched velocity and suppleness to our clients throughout conventional and fashionable utility supply fashions, whereas nonetheless retaining safety, administration, and management throughout the whole endpoint property.”
“Having deployed IGEL OS to our distant workforce, we’ve got been excited to pilot the newest innovation from IGEL together with UMS 12 and IGEL OS 12,” stated Simon Barlow, Group Chief Expertise Officer, Operations, AXA UK & Eire. “Our distant workforce, the agile utility panorama and extra frequent replace cycles of unified comms require us to onboard, handle and replace our endpoints sooner and extra effectively than ever earlier than. Based mostly on our preliminary testing of OS 12, we’re already assured that we will remotely configure, replace, and patch our distant machines sooner and extra effectively. With small updates and the power to solely replace the Azure Digital Desktop consumer, IGEL COSMOS permits us to be extra agile with out compromising safety or change management. We’re excited in regards to the new cloud companies which counterpoint IGEL OS and UMS 12 and are proud to be included within the COSMOS platform launch.”
“Having utilized the safe IGEL OS for our VMware VDI surroundings, we had been excited to work with IGEL on the IGEL OS 12 pilot,” stated Billy Cruz, Expertise Companies Supervisor, Desktop Engineering, COCC. “The power to replace the VMware Horizon consumer independently from IGEL OS within the new providing permits us to deploy the newest innovation from VMware sooner and extra effectively than earlier than. The extra skill to now additionally replace the Zoom and Webex offloading purchasers, independently from the VMware Horizon app, additionally gives further flexibility and reduces the period of time wanted to carry out administration updates to extend worker expertise. With a smaller assault floor and sooner updates, we’re enthusiastic about rolling out IGEL OS 12 sooner or later.”
The Highly effective, Unified Elements of COSMOS
On the core of the IGEL COSMOS platform is the brand new IGEL UMS 12, which affords a unified view throughout a heterogeneous mixture of endpoints operating both IGEL OS 11 or the brand new IGEL OS 12. This highly effective, but easy to make use of, administration and management console permits environments already benefitting from IGEL OS to simply migrate and leverage speedy worth of COSMOS with out requiring an OS improve on all their present gadgets.
Launched with COSMOS is the brand new IGEL OS 12 which is extra light-weight and adaptable than ever. Providing elevated flexibility, velocity, and agile integrations, IGEL OS 12 has been architected to assist any type of cloud-delivered digital experiences. It additionally helps a sooner, extra environment friendly supply of options and purposes tuned to particular use circumstances by way of the IGEL App Portal. Different key companies tuned to IGEL OS 12 embrace quick consumer onboarding and deep insights into endpoint utilization, safety, standing, and compliance of IGEL UMS-managed endpoints.
Some of the vital new cloud companies including further worth to COSMOS is the IGEL App Portal. The App Portal delivers a full vary of validated purposes from IGEL’s huge IGEL Prepared expertise companion neighborhood designed to be used on IGEL OS-powered gadgets. For the reason that App Portal operates individually and independently from the IGEL OS endpoint working system, it sharply streamlines the method of utility integration, introduction, and qualification for IT groups since there isn’t a longer any dependence on the traditional, extremely built-in software program launch course of. Out there for obtain at no further value, these apps might be quickly certified and delivered as a feature-rich expertise for customers, whereas lowering the app qualification, implementation and replace processes for IT. Purposes embrace the Microsoft Azure Digital Desktop consumer, VMware Horizon consumer, Citrix Workspace app, Chromium Browser, Zoom Media Plugins for VDI and lots of extra. IGEL additionally affords an IGEL OS API (utility programming interface) for software program suppliers that wish to validate their resolution for availability utilizing COSMOS and the IGEL App Portal.
Availability
COSMOS, IGEL UMS 12, and IGEL OS 12 will likely be obtainable April 1. Present customers of IGEL OS 11 will be capable to interact IGEL UMS 12 by way of a straightforward migration to entry COSMOS developments for present and new gadgets operating IGEL OS 12 sooner or later. For extra data go to igel.com/cosmos. To schedule a discovery assembly and get early entry to GA code, go to igel.com/sure.
DISRUPT23
COSMOS was announcement from DISRUPT23 – The Final World EUC in Munich, held February 15 and 16 on the INFINITY Lodge & Convention Resort. DISRUPT23 will maintain its North American installment on the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Conference Middle in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 3-5. Registration is $399 per particular person. To register, go to: www.disruptEUC.com.
About IGEL
Immediately, the world of labor is hybrid. A number of clouds can ship purposes sourced from wherever to a extensively distributed workforce utilizing all varieties of gadgets. Proper in the meanwhile when the world of labor wants it most, IGEL has the answer for totally managed, safe endpoint entry to any digital workspace that offers IT groups sturdy management and end-users the liberty to work as they need in a hybrid world. Enabling alternative of any cloud, from any gadget, wherever, IGEL unlocks a collaborative and productive finish consumer computing expertise whereas fixing the frequent safety and administration challenges required to compete and win in at this time’s world of hybrid work. With a rising ecosystem of greater than 100 IGEL Prepared expertise companions, IGEL has workplaces in Europe and the USA and is represented by companions in over 50 international locations. For extra data on IGEL, go to www.igel.com.
