IGEL Updates Platform Positioning, Expands Key Partnerships

During the IGEL Now & Next 2026 conference this year in Miami, Fla., IGEL highlighted the company’s evolution from Secure Endpoint OS Platform to Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform.

IGEL also made a series of announcements during the event – over 20 in total – including an expansion of its partnership with Omnissa and a new partnership with Exclusive Networks.

Driving end-to-end customer satisfaction through a digital platform

The shift toward an Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform reflects a broader change in enterprise endpoint requirements.

IGEL is delivering an Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform for modern digital workspaces and secure access. 

Channel partners gain access to security tooling and profit opportunities

Through its secure endpoint OS, Universal Management Suite (UMS), and IGEL App Portal, the organization enables a Preventive Security Model to real-time policy enforcement while adapting to user, device, and contextual conditions.

“With the landscape that we have today with the chip shortages, et cetera, organizations are really struggling with how they refresh their hardware and keep their hardware relevant – and that’s where IGEL comes in,” said Phil Eden, VP of Channel, North America at IGEL, during an interview with Channel Insider. 

“We’ve always had a very strong message around sustainability and the ability to convert devices. This is a unique opportunity for us with the ship shortages to go into organizations that are on the cusp of having to make a large investment, but then have these long wait times before hardware can arrive that they can use IGEL as a great solution for that.”

As a 100 percent channel enterprise, IGEL wants to give partners a secure, adaptive platform as the cornerstone for their customers to achieve positive customer outcomes, backed by a predictable, profitable partner program.

Enhanced and expanded partnerships include Exclusive Networks and others

Among further announcements is a new partnership with Exclusive Networks, a global cybersecurity distributor.

IGEL has added them to its ecosystem of distribution partners to give partners access to new offerings through distribution, and allows IGEL to expand its global footprint and focus on cyber-centric and security-centric partners.

“Exclusive Networks has a tremendous portfolio and a great track record of success for creating really good channel ecosystems the partners take advantage of,” said Eden. “As [partners] start to position their zero trust or their SASE or SSE offerings, now they can include IGEL as a part of that conversation and have that full story from the data center all the way to the provisioning app layer all the way out to the endpoint.”

IGEL commits to Omnissa partnership to deliver healthcare security

IGEL’s expansion of its partnership with Omnissa includes three new initiatives for helping organizations deploy and manage secure endpoints faster, improve resilience for mission-critical healthcare workflows, and advance digital employee experience observability across endpoints and virtual desktop environments.

“Our partnership with Omnissa continues to focus on practical outcomes for customers, helping them get to production faster, operate more securely, and support critical workflows in high-stakes environments like healthcare,” said Klaus Oestermann, CEO of IGEL. 

“With these initiatives, we’re extending our collaboration beyond technology alignment into joint services, resilience planning, and the next generation of cross-platform observability.”

The three new initiatives as part of this platform expansion include:

• IGEL Insights and Omnissa Intelligence Integration (Preview): IGEL and Omnissa will collaborate on an integration between IGEL Insights and Omnissa Intelligence to provide deeper, unified visibility into device health, performance, and security, enabling faster troubleshooting and improved experience management.
• IGEL Accelerator Services Program: A new IGEL program aligned with Omnissa Horizon Accelerator to help customers deploy and manage IGEL OS and Omnissa solutions faster. The program streamlines lifecycle management and accelerates time-to-production.
• Healthcare Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR): IGEL and Omnissa healthcare teams are collaborating on an approach designed to help healthcare organizations sustain clinical operations during downtime events, including cyber incidents. It emphasizes enabling clinicians to continue working with full client functionality during outages, leveraging IGEL capabilities such as dual-boot and UD Pocket.

“Omnissa is becoming more and more requested by our customers. We’re seeing more and more prospects and customers looking for a new solution and that’s where Omnissa comes in,” said Eden. 

“Omnissa is doing their best to make it very easy for other native VDI customers to migrate over to Omnissa and IGEL is a great part of that story. Whether it’s prior to a migration using IGEL to have that consistent OS layer and then the ease of management of turning off an existing VDI environment and switching on a new Omnissa environment – or having both run in parallel as a migration is taking place.”

A look back on IGEL Now and Next 2026

IGEL’s Now and Next event brings together all relevant technologies within cybersecurity, endpoint security, and virtualization, along with thought leaders in the space.

“We think we bring together a great ecosystem of sponsors and technologies to drive the conversation and to drive the sessions that it really becomes extremely advantageous to the attendees each year,” says Eden.

Among other key announcements made during the conference are:

• IGEL IT for OT – IGEL Adaptive Secure OT
• IGEL for Contextual Access
• IGEL and Microsoft blueprints for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
• IGEL Accelerator for Omnissa
• IGEL Insights Dashboard
• IGEL Insights integration with Omnissa Intelligence
• IGEL Agent for Imprivata WebSSO with facial recognition support
• IGEL Managed Hypervisor Backup & Restore
• IGEL Managed Hypervisor Published Apps
• IGEL Managed Containers
• IGEL for Windows app
• Palo Alto GlobalProtect Client
• Netskope One Enterprise Browser and Client
• Evidian and Nymi support for manufacturing
• IGEL OS 12 FIPS 140-3
• Nerdio Manager integration with UMS
• IGEL BC&DR Emergency Management
• IGEL Secure Contact Center
• IGEL AI Armor Ollama support
• IGEL Trusted Macro Secure Enclave
• IGEL OS 12 for Arm Aava tablet support