VMware, Inc., a global provider of cloud infrastructure and business mobility, has introduced updates to the VMware Workspace ONE solution.
The Workspace ONE solution integrates application and access management, unified endpoint management (VMware AirWatch®), and virtual application delivery (VMware Horizon®) to help organizations evolve silo-ed cloud and mobile investments, enabling all employees, devices and things across the organization to accelerate their digital transformation journey with a platform-based approach.
“As the benefits of digitization extend across the organization to include a broader set of employees and endpoints, there is an urgent need to break down technology silos and tackle shadow IT by standardizing on a digital workspace platform”, said Noah Wasmer, senior vice president, mobile products, End-User Computing, VMware. “VMware Workspace ONE™ is the industry’s only integrated platform to deliver contextual access to all applications while delivering best-in-class endpoint management with market leading AirWatch.”
To accelerate adoption of digital workspaces, VMware is simplifying the experience for both IT and end-users with its award-winning Workspace ONE solution. Building on the Workspace ONE innovations, VMware will make it easy for IT to deliver unified access and single sign-on experience to Intranet applications that use Kerberos certs or HTTP headers, and will offer richer conditional access capabilities that combine real-time security hygiene with compliance automation.
Updates to the market-leading AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management™portfolio will enhance support across OS platforms for mobile (iOS, Android), desktop (Windows 10, macOS), purpose-built (ruggedized) and IoT endpoints to simplify provisioning and end-user onboarding. Lastly, updated Workspace ONE pricing and packaging will make it easier than ever for customers to evolve their current investments into a broader, more comprehensive end-user computing environment that spans all applications, end-users and endpoints.
Unifying Application Access and Extending Mobile Identity Management
The proliferation of applications and unsecured BYO devices accessing work data has made it difficult for IT to maintain security compliance and regulations while ensuring end-user productivity. Current technologies and solutions only focus access control on specific attack vectors (cloud, network, endpoint) but do not unify the access control perimeter across all applications and endpoints. Unlike other approaches, Workspace ONE combines identity and enterprise mobility management (EMM) to help organizations securely access all business applications and services with an improved end-user experience.
Highlights of newly introduced access management and security capabilities in the solutions include:
● Extending One-touch Mobile SSO Across Applications with Unified Access Control – The updated Workspace ONE solution will enable a new single control plane across cloud, native and intranet applications. Using the new VMware Unified Access Gateway with Kerberos delegation capability, end-users can access intranet applications using device biometrics and certificates securely stored on the device to experience seamless single sign-on.
● Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with Apple Watch – Secure MFA can be extended to the Apple Watch to enable end-users to authenticate their identity right from their wrists, taking advantage of mobile moments for increased productivity.
Expanding Unified Endpoint Management for Cross Platform Support including Windows 10
Workspace ONE also helps eliminate silos of multiple cloud and on-premises client management tools for mobile devices and desktops by providing a holistic, user-centric approach using AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management (UEM). This unified approach can help improve the end-user experience, enhance security, and reduce the cost and complexity of managing endpoints over traditional methods.
“The traditional computing environment on a desktop machine has now for the most part extended to mobile devices,” said Willem Bagchus, messaging and collaboration specialist, United Bank. “United Bank wanted to use the most advanced technology to benefit the bank and especially to benefit our customers. Without having AirWatch as the base of our security, this transition to mobile would not have been possible.”
Flexible Workspace ONE Packaging
New pricing and packaging will simplify the selection, purchase and deployment of Workspace ONE. The new packaging enables organizations at different phases of their Digital Workspace or Unified Endpoint Management journey to segment their users and select the appropriate set of capabilities that aligns to their application and security needs.
