XenTegra - IGEL Weekly

IGEL is proud to be a member of the Digital Workspace Ecosystem Alliance (DWEA), a non-profit consortium of technology leaders dedicated to providing vendor-neutral tools and resources to help organizations develop their digital workspace strategies. Essential to these efforts is the ability to identify where organizations are in their digital workspace journey today.

To help the DWEA assess and evaluate the challenges and opportunities that remote, hybrid and on-premises work environments currently face, the consortium is launching its first bi-annual “State of the Digital Workspace 2022” survey.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Recently, in the IGEL Community, Leon Beitsch, IGEL Community VIP, released a white paper detailing how to configure IGEL OS with Chromium. This is a hot topic, and Leon does a great job sharing the fine details on installing and configuring Chromium with IGEL OS.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Patrick Toner

IGEL helps companies to quickly recover, whenever productive work comes to a halt due to an IT outage.

IGEL offers a secure read-only lightweight Linux Operating System allowing you to convert existing PC’s to IGEL OS or boot from USB (thus not affecting the existing Operating System or data) whilst in a Disaster Recovery situation, allowing users to connect to services such as VDI, DaaS and\or WEB and SaaS applications.

In a DR scenario IGEL OS will work without the need for management infrastructure to be setup and configured, simply boot to IGEL OS, download evaluation licenses for 90 days; install any client applications you require to connect to your VDI, DaaS and\or WEB and SaaS applications and get your users back up and running FAST.

This may also have the advantage of granting the IT team breathing space whilst they continue to troubleshoot any ongoing outages.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Windows 10 goes end of life on the 14th of October 2025. By that date, Microsoft will stop providing free software updates from Windows update, no technical assistance will be offered and lastly, there will not be any more security fixes. Security fixes are a crucial part, and if you are on a system where a new vulnerability is exposed, and no more security fixes are going to be provided, you are in big trouble. Looking at last year’s increase of cyberattacks with ransomware, and how it affects companies, that is not an option!
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Bill Sutton
Co-host: Chris Feeney

In this episode, Rene talk about the power of the IGEL community, and what makes it so sticky!
Additionally we dive into some product discussions. Did you know that IGEL OS 11 is going end of life in December 2025.
Finally, we close things out with a discussion of the IGEL Disrupt conference, and it's rebranding to IGEL Now and Next
Host: Barry Browne
Co Host: Rene Recker