FEATURE: MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT
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Intelligent CIO Africa
caught up with
VMware Southern
Africa’s Ian Jansen van
Rensburg to discuss the
company’s mobile device
management platform,
designed to promote and
protect today’s mobile
workforce.
A
ccording to a Citrix study,
61% of workers spend
part of the time outside
of the office and use more
than three devices each
day as part of their daily work activities.
End users are expecting to be able to work
anywhere, at any time, and from any device.
In addition, they expect a similar experience
for accessing work apps and data across all
their devices: desktop, laptop, tablet and
smartphone. Meeting these expectations
is becoming more and more complex for
IT teams that continue to use multiple
disconnected tools to manage mobile and
desktop devices.
Given this, it is now essential that businesses
find a mobile management system that
supports their mobile workforce and also
supports the business’ broader goals.
Nebula describes the aims of a MDM system
as deploying, securing, integrating and
monitoring the mobile devices being used
within your business. Not only is it about
managing these new technologies, it’s
about promoting their functionality while
keeping corporate data safe.
MDM entails the management of all the
underlying technologies that handle the life
cycle of mobile devices and their respective
platforms. Ian Jansen van Rensburg, Senior
Manager: Systems Engineering, VMware
Southern Africa, offers insight into VMware’s
mobile device management platform.
Q
Outline the features of
VMware AirWatch.
VMware’s enterprise mobility
management solution is
VMware AirWatch, a system
which has been positioned as
a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Enterprise Mobility Management for seven
consecutive years.
A
A unified endpoint management (UEM)
solution provides a holistic and user-centric
approach to managing all endpoints. UEM
combines traditional client management
of desktop and PC systems with a modern
enterprise mobility management (EMM)
framework to manage any endpoint, from
desktop and mobile to IoT.
VMware AirWatch Unified Endpoint
Management provides IT with a
comprehensive view of asset inventory and
full life cycle management for BYOD and
corporate-owned use cases. With AirWatch
UEM, the IT department can:
• Manage users across all endpoints
• Provide a consistent user experience
• Secure and manage the full device
life cycle
• Unify management into a single platform
With AirWatch, organisations can unify
the management of every endpoint –
Managing your
mobile workforce
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