VMware Future-Ready Workforce

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• IT products and online services for remote work
• Integration services in the organization of remote work
• Firewall
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2020: Announcement of VMware Future-Ready Workforce

On September 30, 2020 the VMware company presented the solution VMware Future-Ready Workforce compatible to technology of end-to-end enciphering based on the Zero Trust model and the opening other opportunities for more exact coordination of employees and optimization of their work. The solutions Future-Ready Workforce combine other products of VMware — Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Digital Workspace and Endpoint Security. These technologies optimize and control access to any application in a cloud from any device, providing management of dispersed teams.

VMware presented the solution of Future-Ready Workforce for geographically distributed employees. Photo: servernews.ru.

For September, 2020 the majority of already outdated approaches to interaction in network are not compatible to solutions for automation, do not provide normal scalability of clouds and have no built-in tools of security necessary for protection of applications, data and users in the conditions of business globalization.

The SASE VMware platform integrates possibilities of cloud networks and solutions for secure remote access on the basis of the Zero Trust model with the protected web tools. This complete solution provides the built-in tools of security for cloud environments which provides efficiency of applications and provides simplicity of operation. Products from a line of Future-Ready Workforce are suitable for the organizations which staff has an opportunity to work far off from any place in the world.

The VMware Edge Network Intelligence technology supplements possibilities of IT specialists given to telemetry in conditions when end users get access to applications not from one predeterminated place, and traffic passes through a set of different networks. The solution Dell EMC SD-WAN based on VMware was also expanded due to support of the standard of wireless data transmission of LTE.

Technology of network access on the basis of model Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA): VMware Secure Access is a ZTNA service which integrates products VMware Workspace ONE and VMware SD-WAN in a single cloud solution.

The VMware Cloud Web Security service will allow to integrate Menlo Security — the Service Broker component for access to cloud storages and remote isolation of the browser — directly into the solution of VMware of SASE.

VMware NSX Firewall is a firewall of the seventh level with status monitoring which will be provided according to the SaaS model and to be integrated into the SASE VMware platform both at single-user, and at multi-user use. It supplements possibilities of the firewall of an existing solution of VMware SD-WAN.

The solution VMware Workspace Security integrates the system of the unified management of endpoints and the platform of ensuring their security. For September, 2020 VMware announced additional offers for VMware Workspace ONE and Workspace Security which are applied to the organization of protection of devices. These solutions include:

• VMware Workspace Security Remote is a system combination for the unified control of end devices (UEM) and security technologies of end devices and remote IT support. For September, 2020 while the team of experts on information security is concentrated on prevention, detection and response to threats, IT specialists control strict compliance to regulatory requirements and help customers with deployment of security systems. Workspace Security Remote integrates these two directions to optimize operability of devices, to provide access on the basis of the Zero Trust model and to automate processes of response to threats.
• VMware Workspace Security VDI integrates technologies VMware Horizon and VMware Carbon Black Cloud in the single unified solution allowing IT specialists and information security specialists to create virtual desktops and applications with proper degree of protection. Workspace Security VDI integrates technology Carbon Black directly into vSphere the solutions VMware Hypervisor and VMtools.