Deliver secure, simple modern digital workspaces with Horizon and IGEL

Today, across IT organizations several major shifts are reshaping how digital workspaces are designed and delivered. Conversations with customers and partners increasingly point to the same themes: hybrid infrastructure realities, heightened security expectations, and growing pressure to adopt AI while maintaining operational simplicity. Taken together, these forces are accelerating a broader shift in end-user computing (EUC) as more organizations move from fragmented tools toward integrated platforms that can support modern work across devices, applications, and clouds.

Hybrid is no longer optional

For years, many predicted that public cloud would eventually become the default destination for all workloads. In practice, organizations are taking a far more balanced approach.

Public cloud investment continues to grow, with hyperscalers investing heavily in infrastructure. At the same time, private infrastructure and regional data centers are also expanding rapidly, often driven by AI workloads, performance requirements, or regulatory considerations such as data sovereignty. The result is clear: most organizations operate in hybrid environments by design.

This shift places new importance on platforms that can support heterogeneous infrastructure, allowing organizations to run workloads where they make the most sense while maintaining consistent management and user experience.

For EUC teams, that means delivering desktops, applications, and policies across a mix of environments while keeping operations simple and predictable.

Security requires a platform approach

Security remains a constant priority, but the scope of what security means in EUC continues to expand.

Protecting endpoints and user sessions today involves far more than deploying traditional endpoint protection tools. Security now spans device posture, compliance policies, identity controls, contextual access decisions, and continuous monitoring across infrastructure layers.

In practice, security has become a multi-vendor, multi-disciplinary effort. Organizations need workspace platforms that can integrate with broader security ecosystems while ensuring that endpoints, desktops, and applications operate within defined policy boundaries.

For EUC teams, this means the management infrastructure itself must support security outcomes that provides visibility—and enables policy enforcement and integration points with existing security tools.

AI is accelerating the need for consolidation

Artificial intelligence is also influencing how organizations evaluate their technology stacks.

While AI introduces powerful new capabilities, it also adds complexity and cost pressures. As a result, many IT leaders are looking for ways to consolidate tools and reduce operational overhead without limiting innovation. Platforms that integrate multiple capabilities—ranging from application delivery, endpoint management, observability, and security—are becoming increasingly attractive because they reduce fragmentation while enabling organizations to adopt new technologies more quickly.

In other words, platform consolidation isn’t about reducing software investment, it’s about making that investment work together more effectively.

Delivering a modern EUC platform

Increasingly, the focus is on platforms that can bring together infrastructure flexibility, security integration, and operational simplicity. These trends are shaping how organizations approach digital workspace strategy. And this is where partnerships across the ecosystem play an important role. 

Together, Omnissa and IGEL help organizations build secure, efficient digital workspaces that span modern infrastructure environments while simplifying endpoint operations. 

IGEL provides a purpose-built endpoint operating system designed for secure desktop delivery, while Omnissa Horizon delivers centralized virtual desktops and applications across hybrid environments. 

Combined, this approach enables organizations to: 

• Extend endpoint device life and reduce refresh cycles through centralized desktop delivery
• Deliver optimized user experiences tuned for Horizon Blast and modern application delivery
• Harden endpoints with a purpose-built thin OS that reduces attack surface
• Simplify endpoint and workspace management through integration with Workspace ONE UEM 

The result is a platform approach that allows organizations to modernize endpoint strategy while improving security and lowering operational complexity.

Join us at IGEL Now & Next 2026

At IGEL Now & Next 2026, the Omnissa team will be joining IGEL to share how organizations are building modern workspace platforms that support hybrid infrastructure, secure endpoints, and flexible application delivery.

We’ll be participating in two breakout sessions and a hands-on technical bootcamp.

Apps everywhere: Portable across edge, virtual, and cloud
This session explores how organizations can decouple the application layer so Windows apps follow users across edge devices, centralized VDI, and cloud PCs, without repackaging. You’ll also see how rollback capabilities can provide a safety net during updates, migrations, or security events.

Better together: Omnissa & IGEL modernize the digital workspace
Learn how organizations are navigating key workspace transitions, including Windows 10 end of support and the shift from PCoIP to Blast, while leveraging innovations across endpoint optimization, digital experience management, and integrated workspace services.

Bootcamp: Building a modern virtualization platform with Omnissa Horizon and IGEL
This technical session provides a deeper look at how organizations design and deploy a modern virtualization platform using Omnissa Horizon, IGEL OS endpoints, and integrated identity, application, and infrastructure services.

As organizations continue to rethink how digital workspaces are delivered, platforms that combine infrastructure flexibility, secure endpoints, and integrated management will play a critical role.

We look forward to connecting at IGEL Now & Next 2026 and sharing how Omnissa and IGEL are helping organizations build the next generation of digital workspaces.