In times of large scale global challenges, two things often happen. First, we tend to bond together as a society to face challenges together. We grow closer to our faith, family and friends. We reprioritize our lives around what truly matters. Second, we create new tools to help us address the challenges as “necessity is the mother of invention”. Today we are faced with a global pandemic causing companies and organizations to re-think their business continuance (BC) strategies. Years ago, I used to sell disaster recovery software. We often got into business continuance discussions. Customers w ..read more

This blog is authored by Josh Spencer with Rick Terlap and is the eighth blog of our business continuity series. Want to learn more after this blog? In the latest episode of the Digital Workspace Tech Zone Podcast, Roger Deane talks with Rick Terlep, Josh Spencer, Andreano Lanusse and Josue Negron about how EUC products can enable workers to do their job remotely during these difficult times. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Google Play.  Using VMware Horizon to enable employees to work remotely Many regions of the world have started to restrict travel and encourage businesses to allow employ ..read more

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 seventh blog of our business continuity series, we’ll identify the security risks to keep in mind when enforcing a broader remote work policy in uncertain times such as these. We will also cover how VMware Workspace ONE helps you stay productive and secure irrespective of where yo ..read more

This blog was written in collaboration by Brian Madden and Shawn Bass, CTO of VMware End-User Computing. 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 previous blog of our business continuity series, we discussed 11 secrets for successful remote-first working from the perspective of your end users. In this blog we’ll discuss ..read more

When faced with unpredictable events like natural disasters, emergencies, or public health outbreaks, organizations must be prepared to quickly assess and take action against impact to their business. Being prepared to answer questions such as “how do we minimize business disruption?” or “how do we enable our workforce to access corporate resources remotely?”, or even more importantly, “how do we ensure the safety of our employees?” becomes as critical as ever. Under these circumstances, having solutions for use cases centered around business continuity, disaster recovery, and remote work are ..read more

Recent research tells us that the employee experience is critical for organizations to attract the best talent and therefore be at their most competitive, deliver the highest revenue growth and the best customer and employee satisfaction. Delivering the best employee experience by enabling device choice and work from anywhere strategies then has to be matched with an equally forward-thinking approach to security. Zero Trust is being seen as the goal line for modern IT security strategies supporting user flexibility while improving on today’s legacy perimeter-based products and approaches. At V ..read more

Empowering employees by providing them access to any app on any device is key to the success of every company. But at the same time, protecting the organization from cyber security attacks is a growing challenge as apps can run anywhere – cloud, on-premises, mobile – and employees access them from any device, anywhere. Organizations are slowly embracing the Zero Trust security model to ensure enhanced employee experience and productivity without compromising security. One of the things that is central to Zero Trust is the ability to constantly monitor and verify risk before granting access to ..read more

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 third blog of our business continuity series, we covered how Workspace ONE can help power critical communications. For the next blog in our series, I interviewed Charles Barratt, Sr. Manager of Digital Workspace Pursuits in EMEA. Charles has worked predominately from home his ent ..read more

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 continuity. In this blog, we’ll cover how Workspace ONE enables seamless corporate communications in times of crisis.   When it comes to events that require employee ..read more

We’re excited to announce the new VMware End-User Computing vExperts program!  If you’re not familiar with vExperts, the program is designed to recognize individuals who are passionate about sharing their knowledge on VMware technologies with the broader community. While the vExpert program has been around for over 10 years, this is the first year in which we’re introducing the EUC vExpert subprogram and badge! Those who are awarded EUC vExpert status have proven themselves to be the crème of the crop when it comes to their knowledge and advocacy of VMware End-User Computing products like Wor ..read more