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Strayer University Improves End User Computing Experience with IGEL
Strayer University is leveraging the IGEL Universal Desktop Converter (UDC) and IGEL UD3 to provide faculty, administrators and student support staff with seamless and reliable access to their digital workspaces.
As IT operations manager for Strayer University, Scott Behrens spent a lot of time looking at and evaluating endpoint computing solutions when it came to identifying a new way to provide the University’s faculty, administrators and student support staff with a seamless and reliable end user computing experience.

“I looked at various options including traditional desktops, but due to the dispersed nature of our business, I really wanted to find a solution that was both easy to manage and reasonably priced,

especially for our remote locations where we have limited or no IT staff on premise,” said Behrens. “IGEL fit perfectly into this scenario. Because of IGEL’s simplicity, we are able to reduce the time it takes to get one of our locations up and running from a week, to a day, with little support and very little effort.”

Strayer University first began its IGEL deployment in 2016, with a small pilot program of 30 users in the IGEL UDC. The university soon expanded its deployment, adding the IGEL UD3 and then Samsung All-in-One thin clients outfitted with the IGEL OS and IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS). Strayer University’s IGEL deployment now includes more than 2,000 endpoints at 75 locations across the United States. The university plans to extend its deployment of the IGEL UD3s further as it grows and the need arises to replace aging desktop hardware.
IGEL Delivers Manageability, Scalability and Security for The Auto Club Group
The Auto Club Group realizes cost-savings; increased productivity; and improved time-to-value with IGEL’s software-defined endpoint management solutions.
In 2016, The Auto Club Group was starting to implement a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution leveraging Citrix XenDesktop on both its static endpoints and laptop computers used in the field by its insurance agents, adjusters and other remote employees. “We were having a difficult time identifying a solution that would enable us to simplify the management of our laptop computers, in particular, while providing us with the flexibility, scalability and security we wanted from an endpoint management perspective,” said James McVicar, IT Architect, The Auto Club Group.

Some of the mobility management solutions The Auto Club has been evaluating relied on Windows CE, a solution that is nearing end-of-life. “We didn’t want to deal with the patches and other management headaches related to a Windows-based solutions, so this was not an attractive option,” said McVicar.

In the search for a mobile endpoint management solution, McVicar and his team came across IGEL and were quickly impressed. McVicar said, “What first drew our attention to IGEL was the ability to leverage the IGEL UDC to quickly and easily convert our existing laptop computers into an IGEL OS-powered desktop computing solution, that we could then manage via the IGEL UMS. Because IGEL is Linux-based, we found that it offered both the functionality and stability we needed within our enterprise.”

As The Auto Club Group continues to expand its operations, it will be rolling out additional IGEL OS-powered endpoints to its remote workers, and expects its deployment to exceed 400 endpoints once the project is complete.

The Auto Club Group is also looking at possibly leveraging the IGEL Cloud Gateway, which will help bring more performance and functionality to those working outside of the corporate WAN.
DPX: The Backup Alternative You’ve Been Waiting For
Catalogic DPX is a pleasantly affordable backup solution that focuses on the most important aspects of data backup and recovery: Easy administration, world class reliability, fast backup and recovery with minimal system impact and a first-class support team. DPX delivers on key data protection use cases, including rapid recovery and DR, ransomware protection, cloud integration, tape or tape replacement, bare metal recovery and remote office backup.
Catalogic DPX is a pleasantly affordable backup solution that focuses on the most important aspects of data backup and recovery: Easy administration, world class reliability, fast backup and recovery with minimal system impact and a first-class support team. DPX delivers on key data protection use cases, including rapid recovery and DR, ransomware protection, cloud integration, tape or tape replacement, bare metal recovery and remote office backup.
Jumpstart your Disaster Recovery and Remote Work Strategy: 6 Considerations for your Virtual Desktop
If you have a business continuity strategy or not, this guide will help to understand the unique considerations (and advantages) to remote desktops. Learn how your virtualized environments are suited to good DR and how they can be optimized to protect your organization from that worst-case scenario.
If you have a business continuity strategy or not, this guide will help to understand the unique considerations (and advantages) to remote desktops. Learn how your virtualized environments are suited to good DR and how they can be optimized to protect your organization from that worst-case scenario.
Make the Move: Linux Desktops with Cloud Access Software
Gone are the days where hosting Linux desktops on-premises is the only way to ensure uncompromised customization, choice and control. You can host Linux desktops & applications remotely and visualize them to further security, flexibility and performance. Learn why IT teams are virtualizing Linux.

Make the Move: Linux Remote Desktops Made Easy

Securely run Linux applications and desktops from the cloud or your data center.

Download this guide and learn...

  • Why organizations are virtualizing Linux desktops & applications
  • How different industries are leveraging remote Linux desktops & applications
  • What your organization can do to begin this journey


Key Considerations for Configuring Virtual Desktops For Remote Work
At any time, organizations worldwide and individuals can be forced to work from home. Learn about a sustainable solution to enable your remote workforce quickly and easily and gain tips to enhance your business continuity strategy when it comes to employee computing resources.

Assess what you already have

If you have a business continuity plan or a disaster recovery plan in place, that’s a good place to start. This scenario may not fit the definition of disaster that you originally intended, but it can serve to help you test your plan in a more controlled fashion that can benefit both your current situation by giving you a head start, and your overall plan by revealing gaps that would be more problematic in a more urgent or catastrophic environment with less time to prepare and implement.

Does your plan include access to remote desktops in a data center or the cloud? If so, and you already have a service in place ready to transition or expand, you’re well on your way.

Read the guide to learn what it takes for IT teams to set up staff to work effectively from home with virtual desktop deployments. Learn how to get started, if you’re new to VDI or if you already have an existing remote desktop scenario but are looking for alternatives.

Powering Remote Game Development
The unprecedented growth in consumer demand exacerbated some challenges the gaming industry faced pre-pandemic—challenges largely created by the need to support an increasingly remote workforce. This guide examines some of those challenges and explores how gaming studios are optimizing processes and technologies to address them while enhancing the collaboration, productivity, and security of remote workers.

People around the world turned to the video gaming industry for entertainment, escapism, and social connection during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The unprecedented growth in consumer demand exacerbated some challenges the gaming industry faced pre-pandemic—challenges largely created by the need to support an increasingly remote workforce.

This guide examines some of those challenges and explores how gaming studios are optimizing processes and technologies to address them while enhancing the collaboration, productivity, and security of remote workers.

What you'll learn:

  • Challenges facing development studios today
  • Four ways to enable remote game developers
  • Key considerations for configuring virtual desktops
How PCoIP Technology Saves Broadcasters Time and Money (While Boosting Cybersecurity)
Bring broadcast production into the 21st century with this whitepaper.Discover how to leverage PCoIP technology to help broadcasters move from physical production facilities to virtualized broadcast production/playout systems.

The traditional KVM model is a thing of the past, especially in these times of COVID-19 and remote work. In this whitepaper, we're introducing a post-KVM model that keeps data ultra-secure, and reduces bandwidth, allowing more remote users to connect to a broadcaster's studio.

Download this whitepaper and learn how PCoIP Technology can:

  • Meet specialized high performance computing needs
  • Enable bandwidth-efficient collaboration without delays of large file transfer
  • Help broadcasters move from physical production facilities to virtualized broadcast
The State of Remote Work in 2021
We surveyed nearly 700 IT decisions makers across a range of industries about their transition to sending employees home to work. This report discusses our findings. Download this free 15-page report to learn about priorities for IT staff when it comes to remote desktops for employees, and what will continue presently and post pandemic.

Remote work looks vastly different than it did just one year ago.  In March 2020, tens of millions of workers around the world shifted to working from an office to working from home due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. We set off to find out how organizations were adjusting to remote work, specifically how desktop virtualization usage has contributed to or influenced that adjustment.

Download the report and learn:

  • What role remote desktops play in supporting remote workers
  • Tips from your peers to make the remote work transition easier
  • The benefits of adopting a remote workforce
  • Lessons learned from IT decision makers in shifting employees home
Survey Report: Remote Media Workflows for Broadcasters
Survey finds widespread adoption of working offsite that looks to continue post COVID-19. TV Tech magazine early this year undertook a survey to examine remote workflow adoption and usage patterns among television broadcasters and other media organizations. The survey was conducted in partnership with Teradici and fielded between Feb. 1 and March 5, 2021—roughly one year after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a worldwide pandemic.
Overall, the survey found prevalent adoption of remote workflows among broadcasters since the pandemic was declared. A total of 88% of all respondents said their organizations had deployed some form of remote workflow in response to COVID-19. That trend was even more pronounced among TV broadcasting and cable TV network respondents (referred to throughout the rest of this report as “broadcast and cable TV respondents,”) with 93% saying the pandemic prompted adoption of remote workflows.

More broadly, the survey revealed COVID-19 had a major disruptive effect on long-established media workflows. While the primary reason to shift from working at the studio or headquarters was to protect staff from potential virus exposure, the survey revealed several other reasons broadcast and cable TV respondents said their organizations adopted a remote work strategy,
including work schedule flexibility and promoting higher productivity and job satisfaction.
Key Considerations for Configuring Virtual Desktops for Remote Work
Teradici is committed to supporting companies through their search for a sustainable solution to enable their remote workforce quickly and easily. We are here as experienced advisors with guidance to help you maintain secure and uninterrupted operations.

With most of the world working from home for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19, we've prepared this guide to help you enable and sustain a remote workforce.

Download this guide and learn:

  • How to assess your current setup
  • How to keep desktops secure in a remote environment
  • Various remote connectivity options (datacenter, public cloud, hybrid environment)
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.

The Hybrid Future: The changing face of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
The AEC sector is changing rapidly with technology having a major influence on the way firms design, collaborate and communicate.
Download the paper and learn about:
•    Technology trends in AEC
•    Using the hybrid work model for flexible working and seamless connection with the job site
•    Data centralization in collaborative Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows and increased demand for high fidelity graphics
•    Teradici CAS and how it can help support distributed, dynamic AEC teams


Securing the Hybrid Workplace in 2022 and Beyond
New Survey Finds Companies Are Turning Away from VPN in Favor of Zero Trust Architecture as Hybrid Workplaces Become the New Norm.

When organizations abruptly shifted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, they had to scale their network and security capabilities quickly. That meant snap decisions for many companies, deploying more of what they were already using, likely taking some shortcuts that left optimizing security and user experience for another day. 

A new survey targeting IT decision makers polled more than 8,000 respondents across a range of industries about the security challenges that were uncovered as companies moved to remote work. This report discusses those challenges and how companies are planning to increase security as hybrid work models mature and become the norm.

Have It Your Way: Access Your Mac from Anywhere
Learn how Teradici CAS enables secure, remote Mac access from any device, anywhere.

Does your organization leverage applications designed specifically for macOS systems? Do your employees prefer macOS over Windows or Linux desktops? Do you have Macs in the office that are too expensive to ship home for remote work and are you worried about the security of content stored on them?

Learn how Teradici CAS for Mac users enable seamless remote desktops with the best resolution, sound, and color fidelity to create and work from anywhere.

Digital Transformation in Education
The digital transformation is going at breakneck speed, including in education. It is very important for educational institutions that IT facilities meet the needs of teachers and students, but innovations must not be at the expense of the IT department’s workload. This whitepaper outlines the most important developments and discusses the possibilities offered by Liquit to meet the needs of education.

In this whitepaper you will discover:

  • The varying technology needs in the education sector and how achieving simplicity in these technologies is the common denominator.
  • The transformation that a modern digital workspace can bring to teaching and learning.
  • How a smart digital workspace can facilitate education by using the best available technology and processes.
  • Automate cleanup of end users’ workspaces and synchronize applications with the latest versions, all without disrupting end-user productivity.