IGEL

IGEL is on hand at VMware Explore to interact with partners and customers to show them how IGEL can help their businesses perform and be more secure.

Brad Tompkins is IGEL’s chief revenue officer.

“Without our alliance partners, our operating system is near worthless,” he said. “So we’re constantly working with them to to upgrade and to make sure that everything works together. On the channel side, we’re always working with our partners to make sure we’re expanding our business as much as possible, helping our channel partners provide a more complete solution to their customers.”

IGEL‘s next-generation operating system, OS 12, should be available next spring.

“Partners can look forward to an operating system (OS) that’s more flexible than it is today,” he said. “One of the biggest changes that we’re making to that OS is we’re creating something called an application portal so that our alliance partners can actually make sure that their applications work with IGEL and they can take on that responsibility. But what comes with that is a more up-to-date system and a more flexible system. So we’re not relying on IGEL development to make all those changes. We sort of spread that out. And what we think will happen is it will turn into more of like an Apple App Store or Google App Store, where more and more alliance partners will come and put their applications in there that will work on IGEL OS. So that’s one of the game changers. The other game changer is we are going to build an easier onboarding system so that when people go to launch and connect to their digital workspaces, they just answer three questions. What language you speak, what time zone are you in and what’s your email. And then everything will actually automatically load in a secure environment. So those are some of the changes that we’re making.”