VMware has released an addition to its digital workspace portfolio with VMware Workspace One Essentials, a standalone digital workspace platform for unified access to business data and applications.
Announced at VMworld 2016 Europe in Barcelona this week, this addition will see the expanded Workspace ONE solution portfolio enable organisations to standardise on digital workspaces that can extend across all end-user types and use cases for company-wide deployment.
Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general manager, End-User Computing and head of global marketing and communications, VMware, said the solution's many new features illustrate VMware's momentum in the digital workspace arena, and good customer adoption shows how it really does address real-world problems.
Workspace ONE is also upping the security ante and will feature improved security by adding data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities for Office 365 and improved end-user experiences with expanded mobile single sign-on (SSO) to all enterprise Web applications.
One new feature, user authentication and an application catalogue, enables IT administrators to have control and visibility into the access of business applications for enterprise security.
Another feature, the Workspace ONE policy engine, enables the use of personal file sharing applications for personal files and containerises work applications such as Office 365.
"This solution enables organisations to not only deploy Office 365 securely but to integrate it with other applications and services approved for corporate use while keeping files and data within the corporate container on the device," says VMware.
It also showcases extended support for legacy applications that will further broaden the use cases for deploying a secure digital workspace from VMware to support bring your own (BYO) initiatives and unmanaged device.
Finally, ongoing collaboration with Microsoft will showcase a technology preview of optimised delivery of Skype for Business in VMware Horizon that uses peer-to-peer endpoint virtual channels and offloads media processing to the endpoints.
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