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IGEL and LG Team to Improve the Digital Experience for Kaleida Health
Bringing secure, easy to manage, and high-performance access to cloud workspaces for Kaleida Health’s clinical and back office support teams, IGEL OS and LG’s All-in- One Thin Clients standardize and simplify the on-site and remote desktop experience with Citrix VDI.

Kaleida Health was looking to modernize the digital experience for its clinicians and back office support staff. Aging and inconsistent desktop hardware and evolving Windows OS support requirements were taxing the organization’s internal IT resources. Further, the desire to standardize on Citrix VDI  for both on-site and remote workers meant the healthcare organization needed to identify a new software and hardware solution that would support simple and secure access to cloud workspaces.

The healthcare organization began the process by evaluating all of the major thin client OS vendors, and determined IGEL to be the leader for multiple reasons – it is hardware agnostic, stable and has a small footprint based on Linux OS, and it offers a great management platform, the IGEL UMS, for both on-site users and remote access.

Kaleida Health also selected LG thin client monitors early on because the All-in-One form factor supports both back office teams and more importantly, clinical areas including WoW carts, letting medical professionals securely log in and access information and resources from one, protected data center.

Unmasking the Top 5 End-User Computing (EUC) Challenges
The work-from-anywhere world is upon us. To support the distributed workforce, organizations have deployed virtual applications and desktops, but still struggle to make the digital employee experience as good or better than the office experience. ControlUp surveyed over 450 end-user computing administrators and asked them about their most challenging problems in supporting remote work.
Today, millions of people across the globe are now working remotely. Though COVID-19 will soon be but a memory, this “work-from-anywhere” trend is here to stay. To support the distributed workforce, organizations have deployed virtual applications and desktops, but still struggle to make the employee experience as good or better than their experience in the office.

ControlUp surveyed over 450 end-user computing administrators and asked them about their most challenging problems in supporting remote work. From slow logons, application performance issues, network latency, unified communications issues, to slow sessions, this paper explains the top five survey findings and explores the ways ControlUp helps mitigate these problems.
Analyzing VMware Horizon Logons
While VMware Horizon provides a powerful virtualization platform, technologies and capabilities like Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, authentication, DNS, network, group policy, and third-party apps must work seamlessly to provide a great digital employee experience. This eBook will focus on improving the logon duration for EUC and VDI deployments.

While VMware Horizon provides a powerful virtualization platform, technologies and capabilities like Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, authentication, DNS, network, group policy, and third-party apps must work seamlessly to provide a great digital employee experience. This eBook will focus on improving the logon duration for EUC and VDI deployments.

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Ten Topics to Discuss with your Cloud Provider
Find the “just right” cloud for your business. For this white paper, we will focus on existing applications (vs. new application services) that require high levels of performance and security, but that also enable customers to meet specific cost expectations.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of cloud services available to organizations. In many cases, the capabilities of the service, adjusted for cost, matter more to decision makers than the infrastructure itself. As an example, the underlying infrastructure that supports common business software such as Salesforce, Microsoft Office 365, is rarely scrutinized, as the products are trusted solely on the brand’s reputation.

Choosing the right cloud service for your organization, or for your target customer if you are a managed service provider, can be time consuming and effort intensive. For this paper, we will focus on existing applications (vs. new application services) that require high levels of performance and security, but that also enable customers to meet specific cost expectations. Topics covered include:
•    Global access and availability
•    Cloud management
•    Application performance
•    Security and compliance

6 ways to improve your AVD experience with ControlUp
6 ways to improve your AVD experience with ControlUp - Expect more, and get more from your AVD monitoring & optimization solution
6 ways to improve your AVD experience with ControlUp - Expect more, and get more from your AVD monitoring & optimization solution
Make UC&C as reliable as a landline
Make UC&C as reliable as a landline - Get more from your digital experience monitoring and optimization solution.
Make UC&C as reliable as a landline - Get more from your digital experience monitoring and optimization solution.
8 Reasons Why Customers Choose ControlUp
8 Reasons Why Customers Choose ControlUp Get more from your digital experience monitoring and optimization solution.
8 Reasons Why Customers Choose ControlUp Get more from your digital experience monitoring and optimization solution.
Fixing Slow Logons in EUC Environments
Fixing Slow Logons in EUC Environments - Get more from your digital experience monitoring and optimization solution.
Fixing Slow Logons in EUC Environments - Get more from your digital experience monitoring and optimization solution.
Revolutionizing IT Support
In recent years, the demand for real-time remediation solutions has been on the rise as organizations seek to streamline their support operations and improve customer satisfaction. Real-time remediation solutions are designed to help IT support teams...

In recent years, the demand for real-time remediation solutions has been on the rise as organizations seek to streamline their support operations and improve customer satisfaction. Real-time remediation solutions are designed to help IT support teams quickly identify and resolve user issues by automating common troubleshooting tasks and providing actionable insights. Another reason for the rise in demand is the massive shift to work from anywhere that has occurred post COVID-19. According to Gartner, Inc. a research and advisory firm, it is predicted that work from anywhere will continue to rise. By year-end 2023, 48% of knowledge workers will be working hybrid and fully remote, up from 27% in 2019, with 39% of those working hybrid, up from 12% in 2020.

Hybrid is no longer just an employee perk but an employee expectation, challenging employers to create a human-centric approach to “hybrid.” However, there is no sign of a decline in hybrid work. According to a Gartner, Inc. Hybrid Work Employee Survey, 74% of hybrid or remote employees say their expectations for working flexibly have increased. Only 4% of current hybrid or remote employees have a preference for an on-site arrangement. This hybrid working shift creates a challenge for IT admins to have the ability to monitor and remediate remote endpoints, and this is where real-time remediation solutions come in. This whitepaper will examine the current market for real-time remediation solutions, including key trends, challenges, and opportunities.

AIOps Best Practices for IT Teams & Leaders
What is AIOps & why does it matter for today’s enterprises? Gartner first coined the term AIOps in 2016 to describe an industry category for machine learning and analytics technology that enhances IT operations analytics. Learn how AIOps helps manage IT systems performance and improve customer experience.

AIOps is an umbrella term for underlying technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning that automate the determination and resolution of IT issues in modern, distributed IT environments.

Here's a brief overview on how AIOps solution work:

  • AIOps data usually comes from different MELT sources.
  • Then, big data technologies aggregate and organize it, reduce noise, find patterns and isolate anomalies.
  • The AIOps automated resolution system resolves known issues and hands over the complicated scenarios to IT teams.

Learn from this whitepaper on what are the Best Practices IT Teams and IT Leaders should follow in implementing AIOps in their enterprise.

Western Health Improves End-User Experience, Extends Endpoint Device Lifespan With IGEL
IGEL becomes the solution of choice for Western Health because it integrates with Imprivata and makes it easy for the organization to connect to multiple hosted services using the latest software agents for extending the life of legacy endpoint devices.
•    Western Health required an endpoint management solution to prolong the lifespan of aging devices, thereby enhancing their sustainability and streamlining management processes
•    Key requirements included a “Break Glass” feature, integration with Imprivata and unified communications systems, and minimizing user impact during the transition
•    IGEL was chosen due to its excellent functionality, ease of integration with Imprivata, and cost savings achieved by not replacing 1,000 thin clients
•    The solution offers role-based access control, zero-touch deployment, and integration with current management services, as well as reporting and alerting on device usage, support for change management, and end-user communication

GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability 2024
Cloud observability is the process of gaining comprehensive insights into the performance, health, and state of cloud-based applications and infrastructure through monitoring, metrics, tracing, logging, and other telemetry data. It enables organizations to proactively detect, understand, and resolve issues to ensure optimal application performance and user experience.
This GigaOm Radar report examines 21 of the top cloud observability solutions and compares offerings against the capabilities (table stakes, key features, and emerging features) and nonfunctional requirements (business criteria) outlined in the companion Key Criteria report. Together, these reports provide an overview of the market, identify leading cloud observability offerings, and help decision-makers evaluate these solutions so they can make a more informed investment decision.
Coretek Teams with IGEL to Transform VDI Deployment for a Defense Contractor
IGEL’s industry leadership has made it an integral part of Coretek’s on-premises VDI offering. This offering uses Nutanix in combination with Citrix VDI to deliver secure end-user access to virtual applications and desktops.

A defense contractor with whom Coretek has had a long-standing relationship spanning nearly two decades had attempted to migrate to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment twice with another technology services provider without success. Impressed by Coretek’s success with VDI implementations in healthcare and other industries, the defense contractor turned to the solution provider for help.

Coretek's VDI offering has evolved significantly over the years to better support today's power users. Due to its industry leadership, IGEL OS is currently the standard for new customer VDI rollouts at Coretek. One of the things that the Coretek team appreciates most about IGEL OS is its high level of configurability, as well as IGEL’s commitment to staying current with trends in the EUC space by aligning IGEL OS with a broad ecosystem of leading vendors, including those providing unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications and tools. In this particular case, IGEL OS, in combination with new Dell endpoint hardware, enabled Coretek to restore performance following a significant shift in the customer’s usage of its UCC tools.

The customer is currently utilizing high-performance VDI desktops, leveraging IGEL OS at the endpoint, to design defense equipment and support connectivity and collaboration through video conferencing. IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™ supports Zero Trust security approaches and partners with leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendors to complement and reinforce these solutions from a security standpoint.

Securing and Optimizing Military and Government Endpoints
8 Reasons Why You Should Consider Securing Your Government and Military Endpoints with Stratodesk NoTouch

In today’s digital age, secure access to sensitive data, applications, and networks from anywhere is crucial for government and military entities. With the rise of remote work and mobile workforces, the number of security breaches has only increased, leaving more government endpoints at risk.

In this white paper, dive deeper into how Stratodesk NoTouch can provide end-users in federal and local government as well as in the military with extraordinary user experience on their endpoint devices while offering tight security and control amid budget cuts.

Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Nerdio Manager for Enterprise for Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop
The report "Economic Validation: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Nerdio for Azure Virtual Desktop" provides insights into the quantitative and qualitative advantages organizations can achieve with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise. The analysis explores how Nerdio simplifies the management of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), reducing costs and operational complexity while enhancing agility and security. Insights are based on customer interviews and industry analysis conducted by Enterprise Strategy G
The report "Economic Validation: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Nerdio for Azure Virtual Desktop" provides insights into the quantitative and qualitative advantages organizations can achieve with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise. The analysis explores how Nerdio simplifies the management of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), reducing costs and operational complexity while enhancing agility and security. Insights are based on customer interviews and industry analysis conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
  • Cost Savings: Nerdio reduces AVD costs by 55% on average, cuts IT management time by 50%, and lowers support expenses by 36%, providing predictable and efficient cost management.
  • Business Efficiency: Optimizes resource usage with AI-driven scaling, accelerates onboarding, automates workflows, and empowers IT teams to focus on strategic goals.
  • Enhanced Security: Improves patching, compliance, disaster recovery, and breach prevention, reducing risks and strengthening the organization's security posture.
  • Customer Feedback: Customers appreciate Nerdio’s intuitive interface, real-time cost-saving insights, and its role in reducing complexity while supporting sustainability.
  • Tangible Business Impact: Drives increased revenue, operational clarity, and resource optimization, enabling businesses to achieve measurable improvements in efficiency and profitability.
A Guide to Migrating from Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop with Nerdio
As organizations strive to modernize their IT infrastructure and reduce costs, many are considering migrating from Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) with Nerdio. This guide covers the essential aspects of this migration, including motivations, licensing differences, architectural comparisons, image management, migration methods, connectivity options, and additional considerations.

This comprehensive guide covers the key aspects of migration, including the reasons for making the switch, licensing differences, architectural comparisons, image management, migration techniques, connectivity options, and other crucial factors.

You’ll also find a step-by-step walkthrough with direct links and screenshots to simplify the process and make the migration feel less daunting with Nerdio.

Why are organizations moving from Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop + Nerdio?

  • Lower costs and increase flexibility
  • Get the most from your Microsoft investment with a top Microsoft partner
  • Manage, deploy, and scale customer environments effortlessly
  • Enhance performance and end-user experience