VMware, a global provider of cloud infrastructure and business mobility, has unveiled a new platform for delivering secure digital workspaces for flexible workstyles and bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives. According to the company, a digital workspace can give IT a more efficient, simplified way of managing users, devices and applications. End users can use it to access all business resources, while lines of business can treat it as a secure platform on which to build and rebuild business processes.
Using the principles of 'consumer simple' and 'enterprise secure', the digital workspace delivered by VMware is designed to aggregate all devices, applications and services while securely managing them through unified common access and identity.
“In the mobile cloud era, employees, devices, applications and data increasingly live beyond the physical walls of the workplace, the data centre, or the network,” said Sanjay Poonen, EVP and GM, End-User Computing, VMware. “Digital enterprises are struggling to deliver a unified digital workspace due to disjointed technology and teams. We are proud to be the first to bring together identity, device management and application delivery on a single integrated platform so business can be conducted by mobile end-users regardless of platform, location, device or application.”
VMware Workspace ONE integrates device management, application delivery and identity management technologies on a single mobile platform, enabling secure management and delivery of business critical resources to employees for corporate IT, and consumer-simple access for end-users. Its capabilities include:
· Consumer grade self-service access to cloud, mobile, and Windows applications – One-touch mobile single-sign on access leveraging patent-pending secure app token systems (SATS) that establishes trust between the user, device, enterprise and cloud. Once authenticated, employees will gain instant access to a personalised enterprise application store where they can subscribe to virtually any mobile, cloud or Windows application.
· Choice of device: BYOD or corporate-owned – Self-service, shrink-wrapped device provisioning through the new unified management platform will leverage mobile operating system (iOS, Android and Windows 10) management interfaces to self-configure laptops, smartphones and tablets for immediate enterprise use. Employees will be put in control of their BYO devices with the capability to choose the level of services and IT restrictions they are comfortable with.
Secure apps – Employees want corporate mobile applications that work like consumer applications. VMware Workspace ONE will include email, calendar, contacts, content and chat applications that are consumer simple while invisible security measures protect the organisation from data leakage. Workspace ONE will also build-in swipe and touch integrations with web applications such as Evernote, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, among others and third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications such as Atlassian Jira, GitHub and Jenkins for developer operations teams to act and respond from anywhere.
· Data security and endpoint compliance with conditional access – VMware Workspace ONE will combine identity and device management with ComplianceCheck Conditional Access to enforce access decisions across any application or device. This approach is based on conditions that include traditional identity policies such as strength of authentication, network scope and add device compliance policies including GPS location, application whitelist/blacklist and third party plug-ins from AirWatch Mobile Security Alliance partners. Meanwhile the AirWatch compliance engine can remediate compliance issues through a series of customisable, automated workflows.
· Real-time app delivery and automation – As the industry is seeing convergence between desktops, laptops and tablets, operating systems such as Windows 10 are also converging to use mobile-style, application management. VMware Workspace ONE will modernise application lifecycle management by simplifying application packaging, delivery and ongoing management. Administrators can automate application delivery and provide updates on the fly, and users can gain access to Windows applications on all devices. Workspace ONE will leverage VMware AirWatch mobile management and VMware Horizon along with VMware App Volumes application delivery technology.
“Overwhelmingly, 70% of ESG research respondents view effective mobility strategies as critical to core applications and business processes that can lead to a competitive advantage for their organisation,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, enterprise mobility, ESG. “Digital workspaces delivered by VMware Workspace ONE enable businesses to empower employees with flexible workstyles, enhance employee productivity and embrace critical security needs as IT professionals transparently assemble and deliver a single digital workspace for an optimal end-user experience.”
“Cloud and mobile technologies are fundamentally changing the way companies run their businesses,” said Keith Lippiatt, Senior MD, Accenture Infrastructure Services. “Our Workplace-as-a-Service offering, working with VMware’s Workspace ONE, enables us to deliver unified data and application access and identity management capabilities to enterprise users regardless of their device or location. For example, for a large communications company, Accenture is enabling an agile, secure and flexible workplace accessible from any device, anywhere using VMware Horizon Air.”
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VMware Workspace ONE is expected to be generally available this quarter. The solution will be offered in standard, advanced and enterprise editions with prices starting at US$8 per user per month for cloud subscriptions and US$150 per user
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