Thin client software from IGEL standardizes thin clients from all major manufacturers, now including those from Wyse, from just £24.50 (plus VAT) per workstation.

Reading, UK. May 19th, 2011 – The IGEL Universal Desktop Converter (UDC) available from Germany’s leading manufacturer of thin clients, IGEL Technology, now also supports thin clients from Wyse. With this step, the IGEL UDC now covers all major manufacturers. IGEL’s customers can now convert their Wyse models C90LE and C90LEW at the operating-system level into defacto IGEL Universal Desktops and then use IGEL’s own management solution to centrally and remotely manage them. The IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS), which comes standard with IGEL UDC devices, also includes support for conventional PCs converted to thin clients. With this convenient method for achieving desktop standardization, IGEL is helping to cut costs and safeguard investments in many IT projects when it comes to IT centralization, desktop virtualization and cloud computing.


IGEL UDC on a USBIGEL’s UDC software allows IT environments with mixed desktop hardware, such as PCs or thin clients from different manufacturers, to be standardized at low cost. This allows them all to be efficiently and securely managed over a network or over the Internet by means of one interface. The purpose of this solution is to provide customers with a method of standardizing and optimizing their desktop management. The IGEL UMS also allows easy and secure outsourcing of desktop management to an external service provider, a steadily increasing trend with the latest centralization and cloud-computing projects.

“With the cost savings that desktop standardization and standardized remote management brings, many of our customers have been able to cushion the impact of costs for centralization or VDI projects,” explains Simon Richards, UK General Manager IGEL Technology. “Savings of up to 70% compared to PC-based workstations, help to balance out the investment and licensing costs incurred when centralizing and modernizing operations in the data center.”

IGEL’s Universal Desktop firmware, based on IGEL Linux, supports the leading desktop virtualization solutions Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View and Microsoft VDI as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Virtualization. In addition, the IGEL operating system firmware also allows direct access to conventional server-based computing solutions, such as Citrix XenApp™ or Microsoft® Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services including Remote Apps, the new REMOTE FX protocol and mainframe environments. Access to cloud computing services can be obtained by means of various local software clients as well as through the integrated web browser.

Price, Availability and Models Supported
The IGEL Universal Desktop Converter is available with the latest IGEL firmware packages, Entry, Standard and Advanced. Prices per license start at £24.50 plus VAT. More information on the models supported and the installation procedure is available at: www.igel.com