Indian firms will focus on building digital workspaces in 2018: Citrix

Indian firms will focus on building digital workspaces in 2018: Citrix

by | May 25, 2021 | Business, Large Enterprise, Markets, Technology

CitrixNew Delhi : With a surge in the adoption of digital workspaces, the Indian enterprises will work towards harnessing opportunities created by integration of new technologies in 2018, desktop virtualisation leader Citrix said on Monday.

“Digital workspaces will help organisations across various facets of operation, ranging from talent retention in HR, productivity in operations, data-driven decisions in finance, improved customer engagement in sales and so on,” Makarand Joshi, Area Vice President and Country Head, India Subcontinent, Citrix, told IANS.

The workspace transformation is inevitable and the benefits far outweigh the transitional hurdles that might come up, he added.

According to Citrix, Cloud and cloud-enabled Software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps are here to stay.

“Capabilities around analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics that have been integrated into Cloud-based offerings are proving hard to emulate using traditional on-premise deployments due to cost, complexity, and skill considerations,” Joshi said.

Businesses, therefore, will have to evaluate the capabilities of the Cloud offerings alongside on-premise offerings and accordingly implement an environment spread across Cloud platforms that best meets their capability and productivity goals.

As work paradigms and technologies change, we will see an even wider gap between generations.

“With 50 per cent of employees being digital natives who prefer not to be restrained by a location, and the rest comprising of traditional non-digital employees, organisations will have to invest in creating systems that regulate this gap,” Citrix added.

Organisations need to encourage adoption of digital technologies like automation, Internet-connected devices, and online communication tools, to reduce the technology awareness gap across groups.

“Hiring trends will also see a shift as the newer generations joining the workforce are increasingly mobile and technology savvy, it will be increasingly difficult to attract the best people in this talent pool without extending capabilities like mobile digital workplaces and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD),” Joshi emphasised.

—IANS

VMware to enable customers manage Google’s Chrome devices

VMware to enable customers manage Google’s Chrome devices

by | May 25, 2021 | Business, Large Enterprise, Markets, Technology

VMware Workspace ONEBengaluru : Cloud infrastructure and business mobility leader VMware on Wednesday announced it had become the first unified endpoint management (UEM) provider with Google’s Chrome device management capabilities.

VMware Workspace ONE, a digital workspace platform powered by VMware ‘AirWatch UEM’ technology, would enable the customers unify management of Chrome devices, alongside all other endpoints, from a single console.

“As Chrome OS continues to gain momentum, our customers are eager to manage these devices consistently along with all other endpoints, including mobile devices,” said Sumit Dhawan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, End-User Computing, VMware.

“Using Workspace ONE, our customers will be able to securely manage the lifecycle of Chromebooks along with all their other endpoints giving them better security and a consistent user experience across all devices,” he added in a statement.

With new enterprise-ready capabilities from ‘Chrome Enterprise License’, organisations will be able to deliver device policies using customisable assignment of groups.

“Our collaboration with VMware will help us deliver a seamless deployment and management experience, making Chrome devices available across more teams,” added Rajen Sheth, Senior Director of Product Management for Chrome OS at Google.

Chrome device users will even be able to access full Windows desktops and applications and use these devices as next-generation thin clients, helping accelerate the adoption of Chrome devices in the enterprise.

‘Workspace ONE’ will be able to deliver a unified platform to both manage and deliver any app to Chrome devices.

—IANS