How Does Workspace ONE UEM Enable Distributed Employees with Apple Devices?
Authored by Paul Mounkes with input from the VMware Product Management and Technical Marketing teams. With the unending supply of books, seminars and training courses that promise to teach us how to succeed in business, it seems like there are more business tenets than there are stars in the sky. When something like a global emergency happens, we’re starkly reminded of a couple well-worn clichés: 1) Business is always unpredictable...
What are Shared iPads for Business?
The concept of users sharing devices may seem familiar even for organizations just embarking on their digital workspace journey. However, apart from K-12 or Education users, there wasn’t a native Apple solution for preparing shared iOS devices. Apple built devices on the notion of single user association, both for consumer and business use. But there has been a plethora of vertical-specific use cases in the enterprise—especially in...
Virtual Smart Cards for Desktop and App Virtualization
Physical smart cards are so old-fashioned and, well, physical. At least when it comes to mobile devices. Carrying a smart card and smart card reader with your iPhone or Android device really interferes with your TikTok cred. That’s what the kids are calling it, right? We introduced support for derived credentials a couple of years ago with our Horizon Clients for iOS, Android and Windows. Since then, we’ve improved the feature by...
Can BYOD Help While Working Remote?
Shawn Bass and I recently wrote a blog post (and did a webcast) which was a guide for IT workers who suddenly need to support the majority of their users working from home. We answered viewer questions for about 30 minutes after the webcast, and quite a few of the questions were about BYO devices, and how IT can handle them during this emergency. So this blog post will be my quick and dirty guide to BYOD. The BYO Background “BYO” in...
Android Series Ep 13: Samsung Knox Service Plugin
In a previous episode, we discussed the OEMConfig standard and how it enables device manufacturers to deliver value-added features to Android devices without needing EMM integration. For more information on OEMConfig and its benefits, take a look back at Episode 10. Today we’re taking a deeper look at one of the first companies to take advantage of OEMConfig: Samsung. With its Knox Platform for Enterprise solution, Samsung offers an...
Workspace ONE Powers Critical Communications During Unexpected Events
In light of current events, many organizations are feeling the effects of life’s unpredictability. With many organizations canceling in-person events and meetings and mandating temporary work-from-home policies, companies are quickly realizing just how prepared they really are in the wake of unexpected events. In the second blog of our business continuity series, we identified the differences between disaster recovery and business...
