IGEL and Omnissa: Delivering Consistent User Experiences Across Virtual Desktops, Cloud PCs, and Hybrid Environments

From March 30 to April 2, Miami Beach’s Fontainebleau will be the gathering place for architects, strategists, and tech leaders shaping the future of secure, resilient digital work at IGEL Now & Next 2026.

In this edition of our IGEL Now & Next Sponsor Blog series, we talk with Nitin Sharma, Product Line Marketing Manager at Omnissa, about the IGEL-Omnissa partnership and what attendees can expect to see and learn at IGEL Now & Next 2026.

Tell us about your company and the role you play in the IGEL Ready ecosystem.

Nitin Sharma: Omnissa is a leader in digital workspace platforms, delivering secure, flexible solutions that enable organizations to manage, secure, and deliver applications and desktops across any device, any cloud, and any infrastructure. Our platform includes Omnissa Horizon for virtual desktops and applications, Workspace ONE for unified endpoint management, and integrated digital employee experience capabilities that help IT teams monitor and optimize workspace performance.

Within the IGEL Ready ecosystem, Omnissa plays a key role in enabling secure, high-performance desktop and application delivery to IGEL-powered endpoints. IGEL OS provides a purpose-built, secure endpoint operating system designed for accessing centralized desktops and applications. At the same time, Omnissa Horizon delivers those desktops and applications from the data center or cloud.

Together, Omnissa and IGEL help organizations modernize endpoint strategies by extending device lifecycles, reducing endpoint complexity, and improving security through centralized management. The combination of IGEL’s secure endpoint platform and Omnissa’s digital workspace solutions allows organizations to deliver consistent user experiences across virtual desktops, cloud PCs, and hybrid environments.

This integration supports a wide range of use cases, including secure remote access, VDI modernization, hybrid work environments, and device lifecycle optimization. By combining secure endpoints with a flexible digital workspace platform, Omnissa and IGEL help organizations simplify operations while maintaining the security and performance required for modern work.

How has participating in the IGEL Ready program helped amplify your innovation, reach new markets, or improve customer experience?

Nitin Sharma: Participating in the IGEL Ready program has strengthened collaboration between Omnissa and IGEL while helping organizations adopt modern, secure digital workspace architectures.

Through the program, our teams work closely to validate and optimize how Omnissa Horizon and other Omnissa platform capabilities operate on IGEL OS endpoints. This collaboration ensures customers can confidently deploy IGEL-powered devices to access centralized desktops and applications with consistent performance, security, and manageability.

The IGEL Ready ecosystem also expands the reach of both companies by connecting Omnissa with a broader community of customers, partners, and industry experts focused on endpoint security and modern EUC. This collaboration helps organizations evaluate integrated workspace solutions that combine secure endpoints with flexible desktop and application delivery across hybrid environments.

Most importantly, the partnership improves customer experience. By aligning innovation across endpoint platforms and digital workspace technologies, Omnissa and IGEL enable organizations to simplify endpoint management, reduce operational complexity, and deliver secure access to applications and desktops wherever work happens.

What are you and IGEL building together that shapes what’s Now and Next for secure, modern EUC?

Nitin Sharma: Omnissa and IGEL are helping organizations rethink how secure digital workspaces are delivered in an era defined by hybrid infrastructure, distributed work, and rising security expectations.

Across industries, IT teams are moving away from fragmented point solutions toward integrated platforms that can deliver desktops, applications, and secure access consistently across devices, clouds, and data centers. At the same time, organizations are under pressure to simplify operations, strengthen security posture, and extend the lifecycle of endpoint devices.

Together, Omnissa and IGEL provide a platform approach to modern EUC. IGEL delivers a secure, purpose-built endpoint operating system designed to reduce endpoint attack surface and simplify device management. Omnissa complements this with a digital workspace platform that enables organizations to deliver desktops and applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments centrally.

The result is a model that helps organizations move toward more secure, flexible workspace architectures, where endpoints act as secure access points, applications and desktops can be delivered from the optimal infrastructure location, and IT teams can manage the environment with greater visibility and control.

Looking ahead, the combined innovation across Omnissa and IGEL continues to support the evolution of EUC toward secure-by-design endpoints, platform-based workspace delivery, and simplified operations that allow organizations to adapt to what’s next.

How does your offering integrate with IGEL’s three-plane architecture?

Nitin Sharma: At the execution layer, IGEL OS provides a secure, purpose-built endpoint operating system optimized for accessing virtual desktops and applications. The Omnissa Horizon Client runs natively on IGEL OS, enabling users to securely access Horizon desktops and applications delivered from the data center or cloud. Support for the Horizon Blast protocol ensures high-performance graphics, multimedia, and collaboration experiences while maintaining strong security and efficient bandwidth utilization.

At the control plane layer, the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) provides centralized management and policy control for IGEL endpoints. IT administrators can configure Horizon Client settings, connection profiles, authentication parameters, and endpoint policies directly through UMS, enabling consistent deployment and simplified operations at scale. This centralized control helps organizations maintain a security posture while streamlining endpoint management for Horizon environments.

At the data plane, with the IGEL App Portal, organizations can easily deploy and update the Horizon Client and related integrations across IGEL devices. This allows customers to quickly enable secure access to Horizon desktops and applications while maintaining consistent client versions and reducing operational overhead.

Together, IGEL’s secure endpoint platform and Omnissa Horizon enable organizations to deliver centralized desktops and applications with strong endpoint security, simplified management, and a consistent user experience across hybrid and cloud environments.

How do customers benefit from the combination of your technology and the IGEL Secure Endpoint OS Platform?

Nitin Sharma: The combination of Omnissa’s digital workspace platform and the IGEL Secure Endpoint OS Platform helps organizations deliver secure, resilient, and simplified digital workspaces across modern hybrid environments.

IGEL provides a purpose-built endpoint operating system designed to reduce endpoint attack surface and simplify device management. Omnissa complements this with centralized delivery of desktops and applications through Horizon, along with endpoint management and digital experience capabilities across the broader workspace platform.

With this combined solution, customers benefit from:

• Reduced security risk. By centralizing applications and desktops while using a locked-down endpoint OS, organizations reduce exposure at the device layer and keep sensitive data within controlled environments.
• Simplified operations. IGEL OS and centralized Horizon delivery reduce endpoint complexity, extend device lifecycles, and streamline management of distributed endpoints and workspace environments.
• Zero Trust alignment. Policy-based access controls, identity integration, and secure endpoint posture support modern Zero Trust access models.
• Improved availability and resilience. Centralized desktop and application delivery allows organizations to maintain business continuity across devices, locations, and infrastructure environments.
• Consistent user experience. Users benefit from optimized remote display performance and secure access to applications and desktops across endpoint types and locations.

Together, Omnissa and IGEL enable organizations to modernize EUC environments while improving security posture, operational efficiency, and user productivity.

Are you able to share a joint customer story that illustrates this impact?

Nitin Sharma:  A strong example of the impact of the Omnissa and IGEL partnership can be seen with COCC, a technology provider that delivers managed IT services to community banks and credit unions across the Northeastern United States.

COCC built its iWorkstation platform using Omnissa Horizon together with IGEL OS to deliver secure, cloud-based digital workspaces to financial institutions that must meet strict regulatory and security requirements. With IGEL providing a secure endpoint operating system and Omnissa Horizon delivering centralized desktops and applications, COCC was able to simplify endpoint management while maintaining a strong security posture.

Today, the joint solution supports approximately 8,000 desktops and more than 15,000 endpoint devices across COCC’s customer base. The architecture allows financial institutions to securely deliver applications and desktops to users regardless of location, while IT teams maintain centralized visibility and control.

The combination of IGEL’s secure endpoint platform and Omnissa’s digital workspace solutions has enabled COCC to scale its services quickly while reducing operational complexity for its banking customers. By centralizing application and desktop delivery while using secure, lightweight endpoints, organizations benefit from improved security, simplified device management, and greater efficiency in supporting hybrid and remote work environments.

This example highlights how the Omnissa and IGEL partnership helps service providers and enterprises deliver secure, scalable digital workspaces while meeting the operational and regulatory demands of modern industries.

Why is your organization sponsoring IGEL Now and Next 2026?

Nitin Sharma: Omnissa is sponsoring IGEL Now & Next because the event brings together a community that is actively shaping the future of secure digital workspaces. As organizations rethink endpoint strategies, hybrid infrastructure, and secure access models, collaboration across the ecosystem has become more important than ever.

Our partnership with IGEL reflects a shared vision for modern EUC, one that prioritizes secure endpoints, centralized workspace delivery, and operational simplicity. Together, Omnissa and IGEL help organizations deliver applications and desktops across hybrid environments while reducing endpoint complexity and improving security posture.

Participating in Now & Next allows us to engage directly with customers, partners, and industry experts who are navigating these same transitions. It’s an opportunity to share insights, learn from the broader community, and demonstrate how open ecosystem collaboration can help organizations modernize digital workspaces while preparing for what’s next.

What will you be presenting or demonstrating at the event?

Nitin Sharma: At IGEL Now & Next, Omnissa will share how organizations are modernizing their digital workspace platforms by combining secure endpoints with flexible desktop and application delivery across hybrid environments.

We’ll be presenting two breakout sessions and a technical bootcamp that explore different aspects of this transformation.

In the session “Apps Everywhere: Portable Across Edge, Virtual, and Cloud,” we’ll demonstrate how organizations can decouple the application layer so Windows applications can follow users across edge devices, centralized VDI, and cloud PCs without repackaging. The session will also highlight how rollback capabilities provide operational safety during updates, migrations, or security events.

In “Better Together: Omnissa & IGEL Modernize the Digital Workspace,” we’ll discuss how organizations are navigating key workspace transitions such as Windows 10 end of support and the shift from PCoIP to Blast, while leveraging innovations across digital experience management, endpoint optimization, and workspace platform services.

We will also host a technical bootcamp titled “Building a Modern Virtualization Platform with Omnissa Horizon and IGEL,” where attendees can learn how to design and deploy modern EUC environments using IGEL endpoints with Omnissa Horizon and integrated identity, application, and infrastructure services.

At the Omnissa booth, attendees can connect with our team to discuss real-world deployment strategies, platform architectures, and how organizations are building secure, flexible digital workspaces using IGEL endpoints and the Omnissa platform.

What do you hope attendees understand about our joint value by the time they leave the event?

Nitin Sharma: By the end of the event, we hope attendees understand how the combination of Omnissa and IGEL enables a modern, secure approach to digital workspace delivery.

Together, our technologies bring together two critical layers of the EUC platform: secure endpoints and centralized desktop and application delivery. IGEL provides a purpose-built endpoint operating system designed to reduce attack surface and simplify device management. At the same time, Omnissa delivers the platform that enables organizations to centrally deliver desktops and applications across data centers, clouds, and edge environments.

The result is a model that helps organizations simplify endpoint strategy, strengthen security posture, and deliver consistent user experiences across devices and locations. Rather than managing complex endpoint environments, IT teams can adopt a platform approach where endpoints act as secure access points and applications and desktops are delivered from the infrastructure that best meets business needs.

Ultimately, we want attendees to see how the Omnissa and IGEL partnership helps organizations modernize EUC environments while improving security, operational efficiency, and flexibility for the future of work.

What do you hope to take away from participating in IGEL Now & Next 2026?

Nitin Sharma: Participating in IGEL Now & Next gives Omnissa an opportunity to engage directly with the broader EUC community and better understand how organizations are evolving their workspace strategies. We are particularly interested in hearing from customers about the challenges they are navigating around hybrid infrastructure, endpoint strategy, and securing digital workspaces in increasingly distributed environments.

The event also provides valuable opportunities to connect with channel partners and ecosystem providers who play a critical role in delivering successful EUC solutions. Strengthening collaboration across this community helps ensure that customers can deploy integrated, well-supported solutions that address real operational needs.

From the IGEL Ready program perspective, we are interested in continuing to improve how partners collaborate around joint validation, customer enablement, and co-marketing initiatives. Insights from customers and partners at the event can help identify new ways to simplify adoption, strengthen ecosystem alignment, and highlight the value of integrated digital workspace platforms.

Ultimately, events like IGEL Now & Next reinforce the importance of an open ecosystem in shaping the future of secure, modern EUC environments.

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