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IGEL Supports Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 |
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Monday, 23 January 2012 |
Cincinnati, Ohio, January 19, 2012 – IGEL Technology, the world’s
leading provider of Linux-based thin clients, announced today its
support of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 that will become
available this week. IGEL is among the first manufacturers to support
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, and IGEL Universal Desktop thin
clients running IGEL Linux are among the first devices to support Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 allows virtualized Windows or
Linux desktops to be provisioned in a secure and economical manner and
accessed via the high-performance SPICE protocol from different
enterprise locations, leading to manageability benefits for large-scale
deployments. The powerful remote-display protocol, SPICE, used in Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization has been available in IGEL thin client
hardware and software for some time. With Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization support, IGEL's customers can benefit from the
scalability and performance of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to
deploy large-scale VDI systems with higher densities, simplified
management, improved costs and a superior end-user experience.
Focused on continuously improving its customers’ experience, IGEL has
also adapted its own in-house-developed appliance mode for Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops. This optional setting speeds up
the log-on process and minimizes user interaction by bypassing the local
thin client user interface. Only a few seconds after the IGEL thin
client has been switched on, the log-on screen for the virtual desktop
is displayed. When the appliance mode is disabled, IGEL thin clients
also allow parallel access to other centralized IT infrastructures such
as IBM mainframes, Windows Remote Desktop Services or other cloud
services.
“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 brings a new strategic
virtualization alternative to enterprises,” said Navin Thadani, senior
director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat. “Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.0 features an integrated high-performance, scalable and
secure VDI solution. IGEL’s rapid implementation and support of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 allows our joint customers to leverage
this integration and improve the manageability, security and policy
enforcement of their desktop environments while at the same time
providing a great end-user desktop experience.”
“We are pleased to be able to pass the improvements that Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 offers in centralized provisioning of
virtual desktops directly on to our customers,” adds Florian Spatz,
Product Marketing Manager at IGEL Technology. "This partnership
strengthens our market position as the world’s leading vendor of
Linux-based thin clients and presents our customers with attractively
priced solutions for enterprise-wide provisioning of virtual desktops.”
To download a free, fully supported 60-day trial of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, visit www.redhat.com/rhev3.
To download a free virtual demo of IGEL's Universal Desktop thin client,
visit
www.igel.com/us/products/software/igel-virtual-demo-thin-client.html.
About IGEL
A world leader in thin client solutions, IGEL Technology helps
organizations improve the agility, efficiency, and security of their
virtual desktop and application delivery systems. IGEL produces one of
the industry's widest range of thin clients, based on Linux and
Microsoft Windows, allowing customers to access to a broad spectrum of
server-based infrastructures and applications. IGEL also offers a
powerful and intuitive management software for easy deployment and
administration of thin clients throughout any-size organization.
Partnerships with industry leaders like Red Hat, Citrix, VMWare, and
Microsoft ensure that IGEL provides the most up-to-date technology and
trust-worthy security to clients in industries that include Healthcare,
Education & Research, Public Sector, Financial, Insurance, Retail,
Logistics, and Manufacturing. IGEL has offices in the United States,
Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, and Singapore with headquarters in
Bremen, Germany. To learn more, visit www.igel.com/us/.
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