2014年10月21日星期二

AirWatch to transform laptops into 'first-class citizens'

AirWatch to transform laptops into 'first-class citizens'

Abridgment: AirWatch devices to pull VMware's Horizon 6 platform to help enterprises make bigger their mobile phone device management to include laptops and PCs.

AirWatch has traditionally been on condition that enterprises with tools and services specifically designed for mobile phone device management such in the role of smartphones and medicine. But without hesitation, the company devices to make bigger its device management to laptops.

"We're changing the game, and we're untaken to elate laptops to be there a first-class civilian," held John Marshall, AirWatch head of the company and co-founder, next to AirWatch unite 2014 taking part in Sydney.

Much like how the company has provided a unified management platform designed for smartphones and medicine, it devices to make the same designed for laptops and PCs. The platform long for include supervision consumption of apps, enrolment, asset tracking, effort shooting, and getting content elsewhere to apps.

"I think finished the after that 12 to 24 months, you're untaken to grasp a gigantic scheduled time taking part in how laptops and PCs are managed," Marshall held.

Marshall held this scheduled time long for stem from the growing come to of finish users selling contemporary laptops and bringing them into the office. He held the assistance of contemporary laptops long for grasp these users scheduled time into the mobile phone cloud architecture to duck the "rugged, rigid polices they would traditionally include taking part in the PC life-cycle management".

"They need to be there able to take a laptop, enrol it, and cause with the purpose of cloud experience they're getting with their smartphone and tablet."

Similarly, AirWatch Australia and contemporary Zealand supervision director cheat Roe held it's veto longer on the order of mobile phone device management; it's on the order of end-user computing, particularly in the role of users consider adopting campaign such in the role of the Microsoft face Pro, a device with the purpose of sits taking part in flanked by being a laptop and a tablet.

"We're bearing in mind a allocation of replacements with the face Pro and individuals analogous campaign, so it's kind of like 'What's a laptop?' The laptop is morphing, and the other article is BYOD is extending to BYOL, bring your own laptop," he held.

"We're bearing in mind a allocation new MacBooks taking part in organisations without hesitation than increasingly facing, and the IT guys proper without hesitation are taking part in need to help to cope the support of BYOL."

But the major question Marshall held is durable taking part in the way has been the "ball and chains" of existing bequest Windows applications. To overcome this, AirWatch devices to pull VMware's recently announced Horizon 6, and allow these contemporary laptop and PC users access to all of individuals bequest applications, and "break free" from traditional PC life-cycle management.

AirWatch stay fresh week announced a collaboration with Hewlett-Packard's activity part designed for mobile phone management software deployments.

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