VMware
The Digital Workspace Keynote
Speakers
Noah Wasmer, Shankar Iyer, and Shawn Bass
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This
session was all about empowering the workforce, due to disruption the average
worker loses a day and a half per year due to inefficient digital tools.
Another
startling figure is that companies with highly engaged workforces out perform
their peers by +147% earnings and market share.
Also
as mentioned in Finance Digest Magazine, “Employee Experience: New way to win
the war for talent” , it’s not all about the money, work has to be engaging and
the company must make the environment easy for staff to do their job.
Services
in The Cloud
VMware
now have 100% of their Global SaaS Services Workspace ONE Ready.
Horizon
On-Prem is a cloud ready VDI solution and now has the ability to have your VDI
solution running on public cloud, whether that be AWS, Microsoft Azure or IBM
Softlayer, and these vendors provide 25 datacenter locations globally to run
this service.
Automation
is key with the cloud, and with Workspace ONE Intelligence monthly over 450
billion data points are analysed to create a more secure environment for
services.
Any
Device, Any App, Any Cloud
As
technology evolves , users will require apps to allow them to be productive,
today that may be on Windows, tomorrow it may be Chrome OS, in the future that
may be Apple, but we as the IT team need to support all technologies easily and
efficiently so that users do not suffer dips in productivity.
This
is where VMware Workspace ONE comes into play.
Workspace
ONE allows for the abstraction of Digital Silos and allows a unified workspace
that gives a great experience to users, allows the support of any device, with
any OS, running any app, in any location, it reduces the cost of management and
maintenance, and increases the security of those devices.
The
five pillars of Workspace ONE
1.
Enhanced
customer experience
2.
Modern
management
3.
Simplified
VDI
4.
Real
time insights
5.
Automation
With
Workspace ONE the Intelligence-Driven Workspace comes to life, by redefining modern
management, Simplifying App and Desktop Virtualisation, and finally Delivering
Transformational Employee Experiences.
Redefining
Modern Management
This
involves radical simplification through intelligent automation.
Users
and businesses can expect.
Day
0 Productivity, Actionable insights, software is always up to date, users gain
self-service empowerment, and we implement zero-trust security, and this can
all be managed from the cloud.
With
the partnership with Dell, not only does VMware software have it’s place, but
Dell can also offer Ready-to-Work experience, Zero touch restores, and trusted software
authority, adding deployment technologies to the mix. This also allows
management of devices below the operating system.
This
will allow a device to be delivered and ready to go out of the box in minutes,
by using Dell factory and Workspace ONE. Delivering a true Ready-to-Work
experience.
VMware
have also introduced Industry baselines for Windows 10, allows Microsoft
baseline support, supported 3rd party baselines, custom baselines or
industry standards baselines such as HIPAA. This also gives 100% GPO support.
As
Microsoft give you a new OS every 6 months VMware are also supplying
functionality to ensure app compatibility across different versions of Windows,
and allows insights to see which devices will run new apps and which ones won’t,
reports can then be generated in order to resolve these issues.
Workspace
ONE also provides vulnerability lists imported direct from NIST, and gives
extensive dashboards that allow remediation of these vulnerabilities automatically.
Workspace
ONE added Device Support
Security
Within the New Workspace
It
has been reported that now 50% of workers work outside the walls of the
traditional office, and this creates new security issues, as we now have moved
the traditional perimeter of the office.
On
average users also have multiple devices, including laptops, desktops, phones,
and tablets, and they want the same user experience regardless of which device
they have at that moment.
With
these new devices come new attacks, AVtest.org have stated that on a daily
basis more than 350,000 new attacks are being registered.
What
is zero trust security? It’s that “trust no one” Workspace one protects the 4
main attack vectors.
Workspace
ONE also allows for partner integration, such as Okta which allows device trust
capabilities.
Simplifying
Virtual and Physical Modern Management
Workspace
ONE allows for Modern Management with virtual Apps and Desktops, this is achieved
by leveraging automated setups, always up to date operating systems and apps,
all managed from a single console, and managed with comprehensive insights, and
automation delivered as a cloud service.
VMware
with Horizon 7 are expanding existing VMware Horizon deployments across
multiple clouds.
We
start with Workspace ONE Intelligence and Insights, this sits with VMware
Horizon Cloud Management Console, which provides
·
Desktop
and App Management
·
Automated
Install
·
Service
Updates
·
Monitoring
and analytics
·
License
Management
·
System
Health
On-prem
Horizon can talk to the cloud with the cloud connector, Horizon can also be
installed with VMC on AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or future locations.
VMware
Horizon also supports up to 10 users collaborating by sharing the same desktop,
leveraging technology such as NVIDIA.
Workspace
ONE can allowing mixing virtual and physical desktop support as a unified
service with Workspace ONE Intelligence Insights and Automation.
This
gives the following functionality.
·
Over-the-air
OS and Application updates.
·
Unified
policy management.
·
A
single pane for endpoint health.
Delivering
Employee Experiences that Drive Transformation
Making
sure that employees are ready to go on day 0, and also within their first month
is important to recruiting the best talent, but also ensuring they have a
productive environment in which to thrive.
VMware
have now delivered Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub which delivers a great employee
experience with IT flexibility, allowing support for both BYOD and company
owned devices.
