VMware Announces New Workplace Solutions to
Help Companies Return Employees to Offices Safely as Economies
Reopen and Enable Enhanced Office Experiences
VMware Horizon 8 Helps Enable Business
Resilience for the Future-Ready Workforce Leveraging Hybrid-Cloud
Scale & Unique Integrations with Industry-Leading VMware
Technologies
While companies, governments and organizations are slowly
returning to the office, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the
future of work forever. A remote-everything, work-from-anywhere
environment is now the new normal. That’s why VMware, Inc. (NYSE:
VMW) today introduced new and expanded capabilities to empower
customers, help improve business resilience, and prepare for the
new distributed, hybrid workforce of the future. These capabilities
include a suite of new workplace solutions and new features in
VMware Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub built specifically to help
customers bring employees back to the office safely. VMware is also
introducing enhancements to its flagship virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI) platform, VMware Horizon 8, a truly modern,
future-ready solution for more secure delivery and management of
virtual desktops and applications across the hybrid cloud.
“Remote work may no longer be considered a luxury, but a
necessity, in this new working environment. In fact, remote work
has essentially redrawn the lines where personal connections have
improved, recruitment is easier, and companies can adapt faster.
And technology has allowed us to adjust the way we work in a
seamless way,” said Shankar Iyer, senior vice president and general
manager, End-User Computing, VMware. “Our announcements on
solutions for the re-imagined workplace with Workspace ONE
Proximity and Workspace ONE Campus, together with the launch of the
first, truly modern platform for virtual desktops and apps are
strategic and mission-critical to the distributed workforce. Strong
adoption of our solutions validates our commitment to meet
customers’ needs as they adapt to the new normal.”
VMware Announces New Workplace Solutions for the Future-Ready
Workforce
To support the needs of the modern workforce, VMware plans to
deliver a suite of new workplace solutions powered by the Workspace
ONE platform. Designed to help VMware customers enable office
experiences of the future, these solutions are two new
privacy-centric mobile applications – VMware Workspace ONE
Proximity* and VMware Workspace ONE Campus*.
With Workspace ONE Proximity, customers can help return
employees to the office by utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
beacons to give employees insight into potential exposure, notify
colleagues of changing conditions, and help recount whereabouts and
interactions within an office. As organizations re-design their
workplaces, Workspace ONE Campus will be designed to leverage the
same beacon infrastructure to support desk and meeting room
booking, and wayfinding, further elevating the future workplace
experience. Implementing these new workplace solutions will help
organizations leverage the infrastructure they already have in
place to support vital reopening tasks and future workplace
initiatives, such as:
- Self-reporting and automatic proximity notifications
- Tools to help employees recall their whereabouts
- Admin visibility into areas that require deep cleaning
- Occupancy limits and physical distancing
- Omnichannel communication strategies
- Digital badge for entry, kiosks, printing, and more
- Desk and conference room booking
- Office navigation
Through close partnership with internal multidisciplinary teams
tasked at bringing employees back to the office safely, VMware
leveraged its own Workspace ONE infrastructure to test and is
actively working to implement these solutions. The teams have been
able to continuously learn throughout this process and adapt the
solutions to meet the complex, evolving needs of large global
organizations during the pandemic.
A Modern Desktop and Application Delivery Platform
As employees globally are increasingly working from anywhere due
to the pandemic, they need quick and more secure access to
corporate resources. VMware is introducing Horizon 8, designed to
help IT teams more efficiently manage and easily scale virtual
desktop and application delivery from a single control plane across
public and private clouds. Unlike legacy VDI products, VMware
Horizon 8 empowers IT with Instant Clone technology that rapidly
provisions full-featured, personalized virtual desktops and
applications, powered by proprietary integration with
industry-leading VMware vSphere technology. The modern platform
further simplifies and automates Day Two management of images,
applications, profiles, and policies by leveraging VMware App
Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager technologies to save IT
time and reduce costs. VMware Horizon 8 introduces several new key
capabilities including:
- Expanded Hybrid and Multi-cloud Deployment Options –
Customers can leverage the cloud or clouds of their choice to
cost-effectively deliver VDI and application capabilities on
managed infrastructure, quickly scaling and provisioning workloads
with the feature-rich VMware Horizon platform. Support for VMware
Horizon on Google Cloud VMware Engine and VMware Horizon on VMware
Cloud on Dell EMC is now available. Support for VMware Horizon on
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is expected to be available upon
general availability of that service. Each of these VMware Cloud
Verified services is built on VMware Cloud Foundation, allowing
VMware Horizon customers to further leverage their VMware expertise
and investments.
- New Instant Clone Capabilities: Instant Clone Smart
Provisioning helps IT directly provision instant clones without
requiring a parent VM, freeing up greater memory resources and
increasing desktops per host, reducing VDI and published
application costs. Further Instant Clone innovations include
dynamic pool expansion and elastic DRS to quickly scale demand up
and down across public and private clouds hosting VMware Horizon,
for example with VMware Cloud on AWS, to meet urgent needs to
support their distributed workforces
- VMware Horizon REST APIs: New RESTful APIs help automate
rich capabilities available in VMware Horizon 8, including
monitoring, entitlements, and user and machine management. IT can
easily interact with VMware Horizon 8 for added flexibility,
distributing and accessing information, and modernizing services
with speed.
- Unified Communications and Collaboration Support: With
growing demand for collaboration tools to support distributed
workforces, VMware Horizon now offers an optimized experience for
Microsoft Teams video and audio, in addition to Zoom and Cisco
Webex, that enables improved productivity and a better user
experience from virtual desktops.
- Linux-Hosted Applications: Linux applications can now be
published directly from a Linux server in the VMware Horizon
platform, helping reduce costs associated with licenses from other
operating system platforms.
Customers leveraging VMware Horizon 8 can also use the same
control plane to deploy and manage hybrid environments that extend
to VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, one of VMware’s
desktop-as-a-service offerings. VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft
Azure supports the features of Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop,
including Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session, and recently added
support for VMware App Volumes, giving customers the ability to
package an application once and deploy it to any VMware Horizon
platform. This reduces the size and complexity of base images
reducing IT time and cost, and cross-platform integration means
that customers can consolidate resources and simplify
management.
By leveraging more unique integrations with trusted VMware
infrastructure and technology, VMware Horizon 8 helps IT teams
deliver more secure virtual workspaces that protect their network
while extending the best digital workspace experience to all
desktops and applications. By using VMware Workspace ONE Access, IT
can establish and verify end user identity with built-in
multi-factor authentication, and it serves as the basis for
conditional access policies for VMware Horizon virtual desktops and
applications. Additional security features from VMware technologies
across the network, like NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks)
and VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud, can be leveraged by VMware Horizon.
With next generation endpoint protection from VMware Carbon Black,
IT can prevent, detect and respond to advanced attacks with a cloud
native platform supporting VMware Horizon virtual desktops and
applications. These intrinsic security elements help facilitate a
zero-trust security model that protects access to virtual desktops
and applications enabled across public and private clouds.
“VMware's customers specifically mentioned the value gained by
leveraging the VMware Horizon solution as a component of the
company's overall software-defined datacenter platform,” said
Shannon Kalvar, IT Service Management and Client Virtualization for
IDC, in an IDC MarketScape report titled Worldwide Virtual Client
Computing 2019–2020 Vendor Assessment. “Unifying physical device
management (including PCs, Chromebooks, and phones), digital
workspace creation/operations, and client workspace security into
the overall platform is an attractive proposition for customers
that are already invested in it.”
Read What Customers Have to Say About VMware Horizon
Availability
VMware Workspace ONE Proximity is currently in beta and more
information on VMware Workspace ONE Campus will be available in the
coming months. VMware Horizon 8 is expected to be available in
VMware’s Fiscal Q3 FY21, ending on October 30, 2020.
Additional Resources:
- For more information on VMware’s business continuity solutions,
visit www.vmware.com/solutions/business-continuity.
- For more information on VMware Workspace ONE Proximity, visit
https://beta-ea.vmware.com/key/getbeta.
- Read more about VMware workplace solutions on this blog.
- For more information on VMware Horizon, visit
www.vmware.com/go/horizon.
- Read more about VMware Horizon 8 on this blog.
- Learn more about VMware’s digital workspace platform, VMware
Workspace ONE.
- Bookmark the VMware End-User Computing blog.
- Get all Workspace ONE updates on Facebook, LinkedIn and
Twitter.
- Follow VMware on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
About VMware
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infrastructure. The company’s cloud, app modernization, networking,
security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver
any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in
Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for
good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global
impact. For more information, please visit
https://www.vmware.com/company.html.
*Disclaimer: The VMware Workspace ONE Proximity beta program is
open to select customers and information on VMware Workspace ONE
Campus will be available in the coming months. Note that there is
no commitment or obligation that these features will become
generally available.
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