We are thrilled to be in Las Vegas for another edition of VMware Explore! Today, we have a range of end-user computing (EUC) announcements and blogs covering our latest innovations in VMware Anywhere Workspace — our platform comprising solutions for virtual apps and desktops, unified endpoint management and security, and digital employee experience.
For those of you at VMware Explore in person, please join us for our EUC Solutions Keynote, “Harnessing the Power of Data and Intelligence for Today’s Changing Workplace [EUSK2765LV],” at 1:45, Tuesday, August 22, Level 2 Hall A, and “What’s New in VMware Anywhere Workspace [EUSB2526LV],” immediately following at 2:45, Level 3 Murano 3304. Remote viewers can livestream our solutions keynote by registering for free at the VMware Explore website.
Building on our autonomous workspace vision
We shared our autonomous workspace vision a year ago at VMware Explore 2022 US. Since then, we have continued to build on this vision, and you will hear about it often at Explore 2023. So, let’s recap the definition:
Autonomous workspace is a concept (not an individual product) that is our north star for the future of end-user computing. It means going beyond creating a unified workspace with basic automations, to analyzing huge amounts of data with AI and machine learning, to drive more advanced, context aware automations. This leads to a workspace that can be considered self-configuring, self-healing, and self-securing.
In the last year, we have realized this vision through a wide range of updates. We released Apps on Demand for published apps; launched new platform services like Freestyle Orchestrator for Intelligence and Workspace ONE Marketplace; enhanced Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense with Phishing and Content Protection; and introduced Digital Employee Experience Management for Horizon.
Now, we are continuing to advance this vision with our new announcements at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas.
Digital employee experience
Our broad approach to digital employee experience (DEX) involves delivering, measuring, analyzing, and remediating experience across mobile, desktop, virtual, and frontline use cases. We are continuing to expand across all these dimensions.
This year, we are announcing several new ways to measure experience, including synthetic network testing, Horizon in-guest session and network monitoring, and more.
To analyze experience, we are sharing enhancements to the Workspace ONE Intelligence Insights feature, which uses machine learning to detect anomalous security, experience, and performance issues in an EUC environment. Our next-gen architecture enables us to build Insights more easily for different types of data, and we have new Insights for Horizon and frontline use cases.
For remediation, we are announcing a new playbooks framework in Workspace ONE Intelligence. Playbooks will help IT organizations scale effectiveness by providing the helpdesk with step-by-step instructions for handling recurring issues right in the console, and crucially, the ability to analyze the success rates of these steps.
Learn more in our blog post, “What’s new with digital employee experience: Announcements from VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas” and in our DEX breakout sessions.
For a deeper dive into how our Anywhere Workspace platform can help revolutionize the future of work for employees, read this insightful blog for three recommendations to create connections in hybrid work environments.
Unified endpoint management and security
Our featured announcement is the upcoming cloud-native integration between Intel vPro® and Workspace ONE UEM. One key use case will be to wake up or power on remote vPro-enabled Windows devices to install patches. This integration builds on the previous phase of our Intel vPro partnership, offering a solution that is now simpler to deploy.
Our UEM breakout sessions and security breakout sessions this week will feature a broad range of additional announcements, both new this week and very recent. Just before Explore, we featured news on enhance patch management capabilities for Windows; the general availability of shared device conditional access with VMware Workspace ONE and Microsoft Entra ID; and zero-touch enrollment for XR devices.
Virtual apps and desktops
Today, we are featuring our Apps Everywhere vision with VMware App Volumes. To quote from the announcement article: Apps Everywhere is our vision for unifying app delivery and full lifecycle management across any VDI, DaaS, or published app cloud.
In support of this vision, we have several new updates for App Volumes and the Apps on Demand functionality included in it:
- App Volumes support for persistent virtual desktops — beta coming soon
- Apps on Demand support for Horizon Cloud next-gen – coming soon
- Apps on Demand support for Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApp streaming — coming soon
- Apps on Demand support for Amazon AppStream 2.0 — coming soon
Also in Horizon news, support for Microsoft Windows 365 is going into public preview, and the Horizon Accelerator offering is now available. Learn more in our Horizon track sessions.
Final notes
We have just begun to scratch the surface of all the great things we will be talking about at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas. Check the Explore posts on our blog, our LinkedIn page, and X (Twitter) for more details about these announcements and the latest updates. If you’re at Explore in person, we have a guide to all the EUC tracks.
We look forward to seeing you at Explore!
For more VMware Explore news, see our VMware Explore 2023 Anywhere Workspace, Workspace ONE, and Horizon announcement overview and all the articles in our VMware Explore 2023 category.
