FD Insights Issue 2 | Page 23

The software company reveals a mobility and virtualisation suite designed to meet demands in a post-PC and multidevice era.
of employees using personally selected smartphones and 46 percent using personally selected laptops – none of which were approved or issued by the company. And a recent survey by VMware found that 83 percent of IT administrators wanted to prevent the use of consumer online storage and collaboration applications . The VMware Horizon Suite is thus designed to solve the security and governance challenges these consumer-ready applications and devices bring to enterprises, enabling IT to meet the demands of their users with a virtual workspace that is secure, compliant and easy to manage.

What Does the VMware Horizon Suite Contain?
A quick overview on the applications contained within the new VMware Horizon Suite. VMware Horizon Workspace – The New Virtual Workspace With VMware Horizon Workspace, IT administrators will be able to allocate data, applications or desktops to end users or groups instead of their devices, and end users will be able to self-provision corporate applications and services to reduce the burden on IT. This enables a quick and responsive IT department that can deliver the right data, application or desktop to any device, on the fly. VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Easy-to-Use and Simple-to-Manage VDI Transforming traditional physical PCs into centralised managed IT services, VMware Horizon View 5.2 will deliver elastic desktop services as a virtual workspace for ultimate control and flexibility for user experience, administration and service. New simplified access to remote Horizon View desktops using any HTML 5 capable browser will enable end users to conveniently access their virtual desktop and applications on any device without having to install burdensome client software ahead of time. VMware Horizon Mirage 4 – A Better Physical Desktop VMware Horizon Mirage 4 will provide an optimal end-user experience for both online and offline productivity while lowering IT costs with zero-touch management of desktop services. Horizon Mirage is a layered image management solution that separates the PC into logical layers owned and managed by either IT or the end user. Horizon Mirage 4 will give IT the ability to update individual layers without disruption to other layers, thus enabling end-user data and applications to be up to date.

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The VMware Horizon Suite is designed to solve the security and governance challenges which consumer-ready applications and devices bring to enterprises

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