IGEL aids Crisis at Christmas with thin clients

Reading, UK. December 13, 2010: IGEL is donating 240 thin customers for use in the Crisis at Christmas initiative running in London from December 19th. The IGEL thin customers will be used as information stations and internet telephones at 10 centres across the capital while the festive season, enabling thousands of CRISIS charity volunteers to make the greatest possible difference for more than 2,000 homeless guests.

The thin customers are part of a total IT solution being provided to Crisis at Christmas by the Aimar Foundation, a charity founded to provide IT support to other charities. For the third year running, the Aimar Foundation is funding and setting up the information systems network, with help from global IT companies and the support of volunteers, principally from Morgan Stanley.The innovation will allow CRISIS volunteers to communicate and identify shelter for homeless people over the Christmas period as so then as allow homeless visitors to get in touch with friends and family or use the innovation to help improve their situation.

"We are providing IT expertise, through our volunteers and equipment to enable CRISIS to home, feed, clothe and advise those who, often through no fault of their own, have lost everything," explained Terry Knott, CEO of Aimar. "It is essential that the CRISIS staff can communicate effectively to provide this lifeline at this very important time of the year, when so many have nowhere else to go. Those in need can as well access the IT network, for additional advice and support. We are very happy to help Crisis and in actual fact any other small charity that needs our practical and expert support, at any time of the year."

The world’s third largest thin client vendor

About IGEL TechnologyIGEL Innovation is the world’s third largest thin client vendor by revenue and is market leader in its home country of Germany. The company produces one of the industry’s widest range of thin customers, based on Linux and Microsoft Windows, giving clients access to nearly any form of server-based infrastructure and application including virtual desktops from VMware®, Citrix® Xen or Microsoft®, terminal services, legacy applications via Ericom® PowerTerm® terminal emulation, web, Java, SAP and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Form factors include traditional desktops and integrated LCD units as so then as the world’s leading software for PC to TC conversion. IGEL Thin Customers come bundled at no extra cost with a remote management suite called UMS that guarantees hassle free and secure remote configuration and administration of thin clients also as migrated PCs.