Welcome to IGEL Disrupt 2023 from Nashville, TN. The room is filled up with about 900 people for the 6th yearly conference that is dedicated to EUC.
This year the conference is bringing a lot of IGEL partners together to make big announcements. According with IGEL CEO Jed’s Ayres, this is the year of “Yes”, which is the theme of the conference this team.
Some of the highlighted partners on Jed’s keynote are Lenovo, HP, LG Cloud Software Group (former Citrix), VMware, Imprivita, a quite a few more
Jed also took a minute to recognize the importance on women on IT and we gave them a big round of applause. He also recognized the partners that make this event possible
Jed also recognized and addressed the IGEL exit of the hardware business and why they are partnering with LG, Lenovo and HP to deliver of their hardware where IGEL OS will run.
Jed also mentioned that they are after their 2.4m devices under management and they are after 500m of fat PCs that are sitting out there.
Jed has invited one of their largest customer which happen to be based out of Nashville, the customer name is HCA and they came up on stage to share their IGEL journey.
As part of IGEL commitments there is one that is pretty nice, which is sustainability and community commitments. They are planting 20k trees of which they have planted over 12k, donating to several other organizations and also working on helping recycling programs, to reduce the number of minerals that need to be mined.
If you want to donate and help to get to the 20k number please use the link Igel.com/trees.
Jed took us through the values that drive IGEL, which is a very interesting way to close his keynote and right before the big announcement’s are coming to the stage.
Now into the announcements. They will be shared by global CTO and Americas field CTO
IGEL Cosmos, OS12, UMS12 and a series of cloud services that have huge impact on the future of the platform
Under this new platform everything is an application including OS12, which means there will be no more “firmware” updates, providing more flexibility and higher security for the hybrid workspace
We are now seeing a demo, which seems to be live. In this demo we are seeing the new UI for OS12, also we are seeing the new UMS12 but most importantly we got a glimpse of the app catalog
In the demo, we saw how apps can be added not only to the OS12 but also to UMS12, in the example below we saw how to add ControlUP directly into UMS for monitoring.
After a great demo, we now have IGEL + HP on stage taking about their partnership and how they help each other for mission critical workloads. They showed us their current lined up of devices
We now have the collaboration between Lenovo and IGEL and their line up of products
As part of the Cosmos Cloud Services, home over-the-internet provisioning / onboarding is one of them. Ship the thin client directly from manufacture to end user, power it up and then it will be configured on a similar way as “autopilot” does it. Please check the video below
The last demo we saw was around the LG thin client that has an Imprivita reader built-in and the new IGEL Imprivita client to access a cloud PC with Tap-and-Go. This brand new client is not the traditional Imprivita PIE agent that we have known and used for a long time.
On stage is now LG , talking about their own set of devices, including an offering to a brand new LG laptop powered by IGEL. LG is creating a big splash on the thin client market. They are listening to their customers and creating devices based on that feedback.
OS12 goes GA on April 8th and will be available for all customers that have an existing support contract with IGEL.
And with that announcement, the keynote is wrapping up. Thank you for reading