technologyreseller.co.uk 23 DIGITAL WORKSPACES Get planting IGEL has announced a partnership with Plant-for-the-Planet in support of the Trillion Trees campaign, a global restoration program which mobilises tree planting to restore forest ecosystems. With this partnership, IGEL is underscoring its mission of sustainability with a commitment to planting and protecting 20,000 trees. Plant-for-the-Planet foundation is an official partner of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030. The global movement spearheading the Trillion Trees campaign to restore forest ecosystems to tackle the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. Plant-for-the-Planet spotlights and supports more than 225 restoration projects around the world to plant a trillion trees to restore forests and fight against the climate crisis. With a dedicated tree counter platform to plant trees and track their progress, donation and engagement in projects is simple and transparent. To date, IGEL participants have supported the planting of 11,234 trees. https://www.igel.com/trees. the past has arguably been too inwardlooking, by providing a more consumerfocused, flexible and intuitive experience. “The goal is to have the sort of selfservice experience that you have on your phone,” explained Ayres. “Take the Uber app. If my company allows that, I could get it and put it on my device. There's a more consumer-like experience. It doesn't feel like you have to open up a ticket, that you're in this really radically confined space.” Ayres expects the number of IGELvalidated apps on the portal, available for download at no extra cost, to increase quite rapidly into the hundreds as vendors see who is in there. “The IGEL Ready technology partner programme is probably the best way to gauge likely numbers. We launched that programme in earnest in 2020 and there's 130 people in that programme today. I would say that the same fast scale-out that we saw on IGEL Ready, also fuelled by a lot of vendors in the ecosystem seeing that IGEL OS is growing rapidly and is available through leading hardware companies, will encourage them to get their app in there. That's going to be the ultimate advertisement.” He adds that another great benefit of the app portal, which is based on a certification process, is that it removes some of the stratification of vendors that has built up over the years, opening things up to a wider community. “Some of IGEL Ready is a little bit architecture-based and some of the companies involved have long histories with IGEL, like Citrix and VMware and Microsoft. The app portal is great. It's a whole new dimension for us and is going to attract more vendors. It's our iTunes moment. Remember how many apps were in it when Steve Jobs announced it; I think there were like 15 or maybe 10.” Software providers can validate their solutions for COSMOS and the app portal using an IGEL OS API (application programming interface). Apps already or shortly to be available on the portal include the Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop client, VMware Horizon client, Citrix Workspace app, Chromium Browser, Zoom Media Plugins for VDI, Citrix Workspace app, ControlUp, CUPS printing system, SafeSign identity client, SafeNet Authentication client, Cryptovision Scienterface, Windows 365 Cloud PC and RDP client, Cisco Webex and Cisco Jabber, 7signal, Cameyo, Cendio, deviceTRUST, Imprivata, Nutanix Frame, Tricerat and Vasion PrinterLogic. The app portal is just one of the new cloud services being launched by IGEL. Others, which received much applause from delegates at DISRUPT23, include the IGEL Onboarding Service, which enables users to onboard, manage and update endpoints faster and more efficiently than before, and the IGEL Insight Service, offering deeper insights into endpoint usage, security, status and the compliance of IGEL UMS-managed endpoints. UMS 12 Underpinning IGEL COSMOS is another major new launch from IGEL, the IGEL Unified Management System 12 (UMS 12) management and control console. This provides a unified view across endpoints running either IGEL OS 11 or the new IGEL OS 12, giving customers the ability to migrate to COSMOS at their own speed without needing to upgrade the OS on all their existing devices. Ayres is confident that with these building blocks in places, IGEL can devote more of its energies to developing innovative solutions that meet the needs of specific vertical sectors. “With that app portal and the onboarding and everything working together, and bear in mind it’s version 1 and only going to get better over time, perhaps with the addition of features that are vertical-specific, we can start to do what development should be doing, which is thinking about the next generation of innovation, rather than trying to crochet a bunch of drivers into a piece of firmware.” www.igel.com/cosmos
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