Integration of VMware Horizon(TM) View and Horizon Mirage(TM) Headline List of Enhancements Focused On Cost, Management and Performance
BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Oct 15, 2013) - Today at VMworld® 2013 Europe, VMware, Inc. (
"The innovations we are introducing around cost, management and performance of our products make a compelling case to companies searching for a modern approach to supporting their mobile workforces," said Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. "We believe customers get the best technology, practical innovations, superior customer support and the most value from VMware compared to our competitors."
Building Upon the Industry's Most Comprehensive Platform for the Mobile Workforce
VMware Horizon™ Suite is an integrated platform that supports the mobile workforce by connecting end-users to their data, applications and desktops using any device without sacrificing IT security and control. It brings together Horizon View™, Horizon Mirage™ and Horizon Workspace™ to create a single, unified solution designed to transform technology silos into centralized IT services that can be easily provisioned, managed and delivered to end-users.
Updates to VMware Horizon Suite include:
VMware Horizon View 5.3 -- will offer an improved user experience, streamlined management, reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), and a new route to market for virtual desktops.
VMware Horizon Mirage 4.3 -- Integrates with Horizon View to enable IT to use image layering to manage both physical and virtual desktops at scale, while also offering enhanced Windows 7 migration and web management capabilities.
VMware Horizon Workspace -- Sony smartphones will join the growing list of VMware Ready™ devices that help IT administrators improve their enterprise mobile management strategy and support bring your own device (BYOD) policies.
"We recently modernized our traditional desktops with VMware Horizon Mirage™ and have benefited from significant operational cost savings since deploying it in our organization," said Oren Latz, Technical Implementation Specialist, Nice Systems. "Upgrading remote and office-based employee operating systems with Horizon Mirage demonstrated costs savings of hard disk drive shipments, ensuring minimum user downtime. Additionally, Horizon Mirage demonstrated enhanced levels of backup and recovery with minimum impact on user machines. "
Improving Enterprise Collaboration
Social collaboration continues to gain ground among enterprises as companies leverage social components made popular by consumer applications and use them to enhance collaboration among teams and large communities. According to a June 2013 forecast by industry research firm, IDC, the worldwide enterprise social software applications market revenue is expected to grow from $1.0 billion in 2012 to $2.7 billion by 2017 which represents an aggressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.3 percenti. New capabilities in Socialcast will offer additional ways for companies to improve collaboration and communication to collectively achieve organizational goals.
VMware Socialcast® -- New integrated feature will introduce a better approach to the collection and management of ideas in large organizations, helping troubleshoot problems and improve organizational performance.
"For enterprises to truly become mobile-first organizations and support the fast pace that the new world of mobile working requires, they need a new level of flexibility and agility in the back-end infrastructure," said Brett Waldman, research manager, IDC. "VMware is painting an attractive picture of this new 'everything is virtualized and cloud-enabled' infrastructure."
Availability
Updates to VMware Horizon Suite, Socialcast, ThinApp® and VMware Ready smartphones are expected to be available in Q4 2013.
The public beta of VMware Virtual SAN for Horizon View is available immediately through the VMware website.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding the expected features and availability of VMware Horizon Suite, Socialcast, ThinApp and VMware Ready smartphones and their potential benefits to customers and expected growth in the worldwide enterprise social software applications market. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to (i) changes to priorities and levels of government spending; (ii) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (iii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors into the virtualization, end user and cloud computing markets, and new product and marketing initiatives by our competitors; (v) our customers' ability to develop, and to transition to, new products and computing strategies such as cloud computing and desktop virtualization; (vi) the uncertainty of customer acceptance of emerging technology; (vii) rapid technological and market changes in virtualization software and platforms for cloud and desktop computing; (viii) changes to product development timelines; (ix) VMware's ability to protect its proprietary technology; and (x) VMware's ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees. These forward looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and changes in condition, significance, value and effect as well as other risks detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K that we may file from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. VMware assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
i IDC, Enterprise Social Software 2013-2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares: From ESS to ESN, June 2013, Vanessa Thompson
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