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Sandy Hogan: Partner in Chief

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Title: Senior Vice President, Worldwide Commercial and Partner Organization, VMware

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Base of operations: Chicago

Time at VMware: 1.5 years

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My family is 100% Serbian. My mom and dad migrated to the U.S. when my mom was 7-months pregnant with me. I spent a lot of my days after school helping my parents with English and helping translate for my dad’s general contracting business.

Watching my family have to be all-in just to survive, to provide a life and a living for each other, taught me the value of working hard to achieve a goal—any goal. Working smart matters, but it’s about your commitment toward whatever it is you want to accomplish. Nothing is unachievable.

There will always be cards stacked against you. There are always reasons you can come up with why something can’t work. Won’t work. That’s not in my DNA. It must work. My upbringing cemented in me the belief in “choice.” You choose your narrative and you live by it.

What lessons did you learn from the pandemic and how has that shaped your leadership style in a post-pandemic world?

To manage the stress and complexity of the last year, I put more discipline around workouts and allotted time in the early morning to focus on self. It was incredibly rewarding to have the home time with my teenage daughter, especially since she recently left for college. We made more time for family meals and binged shows together. I also got back into golf. I actually believe you can learn everything you need to know about a person in 18 holes, and it’s been a joy.

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Professionally, my entire VMware experience was, until recently, completely virtual, which removed the barriers of location and how we work together. That allowed me to expand my reach. I spoke with more partners than I ever have, and the insights I gleaned have been invaluable as we make the move to multi-cloud. In the recent past, organizations traditionally have had boundaries or silos. I firmly believe in breaking down those boundaries, those real or perceived silos, and bringing teams together to execute.

In a post-pandemic world, now that travel restrictions have loosened somewhat, I’m using the lessons of the last year—both personally and professionally—to drive closer collaboration across our organization and with our partners, always focusing on reducing friction and making the VMware Partner experience memorable.

What advice do you have for fellow professionals seeking to achieve career success like yours?

For people seeking new opportunities or new ways to look at their career, start first with approaching your role differently versus just doing the job itself. Regardless of the role or job, there’s always an opportunity to solve for the bigger problem. For me, that means building relationships based on your common passion for solving that big problem. I think that’s the window of opportunity, because jobs can be changed and roles can be created to support that passion or bigger business need.

The strategy—it's incredible how well-positioned VMware is to impact our customers, the industry and the entire ecosystem.

The opportunity to transform—I have thrived by helping transform organizations and having various roles spanning all GTM functions; seeing the complexity and challenges and converting it into “what’s possible” is so exciting. The people<meta charset="utf-8">—enough said. Some of the most amazing people to work with are at VMware.

You often say, “Partner first.” What does that mean for you?

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We’ve really put the partner at the helm of our strategy. And when we talk about “partner first” or “partner led,” that is about integrating everything from product development to advisory boards to the way we embed partner feedback into our company culture. We’ve built a new mission statement: “Unleash the power of connected ecosystems to create customer-for-life value.” It not just VMware solving our customers’ problems. It’s leveraging the skills and capabilities of this massive ecosystem. 

Only VMware partners have the capabilities and expertise to serve as their customers’ trusted advisors in all things multi-cloud, including true multi-cloud flexibility and the insights to become “cloud smart.” To show our joint customers the complete VMware value proposition, we must expand and enhance our relationships with partners—so that together we can help customers achieve their outcomes.

What trends are you seeing across the Partner ecosystem and how is this benefiting partners?

Ecosystems are agents of change, even more so now. Every partner’s business model looks different today than it did 12 months ago—and will look different again 12 months from now. The emergence of multi-cloud and XaaS offerings, as well as the advent of software subscription buying models, have transformed the dynamics of technology ecosystems. In turn, ecosystems are now leading the multi-cloud customer transformation.

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Not too long ago, partners had distinct roles across the lifecycle (such as value-added resellers and distributors reselling, and systems integrators implementing and installing solutions). Today, we recognize that partners may have multiple business models to focus on “outcomes as a service,” and VMware is committed to supporting them as they evolve.

The competitive reality is that ecosystems have moved away from resale and transactional business models toward roles that influence customer decision-making and drive their consumption of cloud services, in addition to deploying and implementing solutions. However, this widespread shift is also creating new business opportunities for partners. In this influence-deploy-consume framework, new entrants like cloud service providers have gained importance in the partner ecosystem, and existing players have been compelled to build new capabilities, such as managed services offerings.

Sandy Hogan shares her thoughts on the power of choice, ways to create career success, and what being a partner means to her.

A look what brought senior vice president Sandy Hogan to VMware, how she shaped her leadership role during the pandemic and how the partner ecosystem is beneficial.

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I truly believe that the vast majority of tech firms want to do a better job of supporting workers with diverse needs. DEI initiatives are proliferating across our sector, and not before time.

But when it comes to disability, we are still a long way from true representation.

I’m glad that we’re making progress. In the U.S. for example, VMware's self-identification rate of employees with disabilities is 3.2%, up from 1.8% in 2019. But that’s far short of the U.S. <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/disabl.nr0.htm">population-wide figure of 18%</a>.

Today, on the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, it’s time for all of us to ask what we can do to increase the rate of change.

The answer, I believe, is to fundamentally re-frame the way we think about disability in tech.

Inclusion is, of course, a worthy goal in its own right. But bringing more people with disabilities into the workforce shouldn’t just be seen as a noble cause; it’s not something to be bestowed.

The reality is that fostering the inclusion of people with disabilities benefits everyone who works in tech – and, ultimately, gives companies a competitive advantage.

We know, for example, that firms that demonstrate leadership on disability employment and inclusion are outperforming those with more modest achievements in this area.

An <a href="https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/companies-leading-in-disability-inclusion-have-outperformed-peers-accenture-research-finds.htm">Accenture study of 140 US companies</a> participating in the Disability Equality Index found that those in the index’s top tier achieved double the net income and 30% higher economic profit margins over four years than companies ranked lower on the index.

It makes sense: companies that select staff from a larger pool of candidates are likely to enjoy superior outcomes. And as well as raw intellect, people with disabilities may have faced more barriers in life which have led to them developing exceptional grit and determination, which makes them formidable employees.

Meanwhile, end-users are increasingly demanding accessibility from the tech products and services they use.

I think the biggest innovations in accessible tech are still to come. But I’m happy to say that VMware is already devoting considerable energy to this area.

In 2019, VMware partnered with Singapore’s Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN) for an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-KQtj3L7q0">Ideas Hackathon</a> to create an app to help the association’s students tackle the challenges of social, numeracy, and vocational skills, and to make Singapore itself more inclusive.

The winning “Connect Us” pitch aimed to provide a social networking platform for the association’s students, alumni, and potential employers to connect. Further developed by the team with assistance from VMware, it made its debut as the APSNLive app later that year at vFORUM Singapore.

The following year, in February 2020, we kicked off our first-ever Accessibility Week with a summit followed by <a href="https://medium.com/vmwaredesign/vmwares-first-accessibility-hackathon-32fc31d63219">an accessibility hackathon</a>. Five different countries, six different business units, and nine different products were represented.

Ten concepts were developed during the hackathon, including a walk assistant application for Blind/Low Vision; programming that opens doors with the twist or tap of your smartphone; and Intelligent Wheelchair Object Awareness.

The winning idea, opening doors with your phone, was integrated into our <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/workspace-one/access.html">VMware Workspace One Access</a> product.

These hackathons have been a team-building triumph. We saw how passionately our employees feel about disability inclusion and received enormously positive feedback from staff who were grateful to be playing their part.

But VMware is doing plenty more: for example, we recently completed the roll-out of three largely accessible tools, Fusion, Workstation, and Player, with more to come.

In 2020, we launched a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c822RG-PyVc">Disability Power Of Difference (POD) community</a> which has since rolled out a series of awareness-building learning courses and partnered on our first-time submission to the Disability Equality Index.

These initiatives dovetail with our broader Equity and Trust commitments within our <a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/esg.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2030 Agenda</a>, which we hope will bring us very close to a truly representative workforce and, ultimately, strengthen our company.

In August this year, VMware joined the <a href="https://news.vmware.com/dei/valuable-500" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Valuable 500</a>, a global business collective that is igniting systemic change and unlocking the business, social and economic value of more than 1 billion people with disabilities around the world. Our CEO, Raghu Raghuram, committed to building disability inclusion into VMware’s leadership agenda.

We are striving not to become complacent. Creating a more inclusive workplace for those with disabilities – and encouraging others to do the same – will require sustained effort and even greater integration of accessibility into our products, services, and culture. 

<a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/diversity.html">DEI</a>, and particularly disability inclusion, must be integral to the way we in the tech sector move forward as an industry. As individuals, we can all play our part by learning more about disability as an aspect of diversity and deepening our understanding of disability inclusion. Because without disability-inclusive policies, no tech firm will be able to attract and retain the talent it needs to thrive in the years to come.

Learn more about how VMware is building a more sustainable, equitable and secure future.

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We are officially in our third chapter as a company, but VMware’s mission remains the same: to deliver the trusted foundation to accelerate our customers’ innovation. We do this by providing the multi-cloud platform for all apps, enabling digital innovation and enterprise control. 

Our path to becoming the “cloud Switzerland” of the industry is resonating with customers and partners, and the journey began with our AWS partnership. It’s through this partnership that the power of “AND” first emerged as a North Star for our strategy. Could customers gain the agility, flexibility, and cost benefits of public cloud AND have the control required of enterprise apps? Turns out they can.

Four years into the partnership and things continue to accelerate. VMware Cloud on AWS is available in 19 global regions. There are now more and different options for consuming VMware Cloud on AWS. And, we’ve delivered new services specifically targeting Local Cloud, Government Cloud, and Telco Cloud environments. Best of all, customers have the choice to buy these services direct from VMware, or AWS, or one of our resellers. And this is just for the customers looking for the fastest path to migrate and modernize Tier 1 vSphere-based enterprise apps. In this same time, VMware Cross-Cloud services have grown into a portfolio of services that enable customers to modernize, optimize, connect and protect their native AWS environments.

The power of "AND" will be on display this week at AWS re:Invent, where we’re continuing to advance key initiatives that support AWS customers. Take a listen to VMware President Sumit Dhawan outline our strategy and the AWS partnership, and catch up on what's new at VMware for AWS customers at the show.

When organizations talk about digital services, often the conversation turns to “born in the cloud” apps. However, Tier 1 enterprise applications residing on premises are often the life blood of an enterprise. Regardless of where an app was created, all apps benefit from modern infrastructure. This is what VMware Cloud on AWS delivers enterprise-class infrastructure combined with public cloud scale and economics, delivered as a service almost anywhere in the world. At re:Invent, we will showcase new innovations and consumption options, as well as continued expansion of the VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud service.

<a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud/2021/12/01/vmware-cloud-on-aws-going-big-reinvent2021/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">You can read about these advancements in this blog</a>.

VMware Tanzu Powers Developers on AWS

With a vast ecosystem of cloud native technologies to choose from, developers and operators alike can be overwhelmed and overburdened as they grapple with every step from iterative coding to applications running in production. VMware Tanzu simplifies the cloud native journey, enabling customers to accelerate their cloud adoption and consumption by efficiently evolving apps and infrastructure from on-premises to AWS, to deliver value faster with a streamlined developer experience for Amazon EKS more efficiently and securely. At re:Invent, VMware Tanzu will release several key new product updates to help customers make the most of the public cloud.

<a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/streamlined-devx-amazon-eks-aws-apps-vmware" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Check out what’s new in this VMware Tanzu in this blog</a>.

Cloud transformation has become a business imperative for Communication Service Providers eager to increase agility, build digital resilience, foster innovation, and deliver new 5G services. Operators are increasingly looking to multi-cloud environments, recognizing the benefit of having their public clouds integrate and work seamlessly with their on-premises infrastructure and taking advantage of their existing skillsets, tools and processes. VMware has simplified this process for our customers with VMware Cloud on AWS and our Telco Cloud Platform.

<a href="https://telco.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vmw-telco-cloud-platform-tcp-datasheet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read more about the VMware Telco Cloud Platform.</a>

VMware Cross-Cloud Services in AWS Marketplace

VMware Cross-Cloud services offer distinct advantages to both IT operators and developers working in AWS. These advantages include accelerating application modernization, migrating workloads faster to the cloud, adopting a cloud operating model for their entire organization, and more securely and efficiently connecting a distributed workforce to cloud-based resources. VMware recently announced the company is making it easier for AWS customers to purchase and deploy VMware Cross-Cloud services to support their AWS environments. Our expanded presence in AWS Marketplace is another proof point of our focus on meeting customers where they are at by delivering value for the strategic cloud environment of their choice.

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-cross-cloud-services-aws-marketplace" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read about VMware Cross-Cloud services in AWS Marketplace.</a>

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At AWS reInvent, VMware advances key initiatives that deliver the trusted foundation to accelerate AWS customers' digital innovation.

This week at AWS reInvent, VMware continues to advance key initiatives that support AWS customers.

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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced it has been positioned as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure 2021 Vendor Assessment (November 2021, IDC #US47279821). The solution, VMware SD-WAN, is a cloud-delivered solution that optimizes application performance over any WAN link, simplifies WAN management, and enables security from branches to data centers and cloud locations.

The inaugural assessment that evaluated 12 SD-WAN Infrastructure providers states, “VMware SD-WAN is a strong offering in the market and is also a good fit for customers that already use any number of VMware's popular IT management tools. Furthermore, many communications SPs already work with VMware, so customers that are looking for integrated connectivity and SD-WAN could look to VMware SD-WAN.”

VMware is taking SD-WAN to the next level with secure access service edge (SASE). VMware SASE brings together the network performance benefits of SD-WAN, integrated security services delivered from the cloud, and the ability to support modern distributed applications. In doing so, it allows enterprises to build a platform that provides branch, home, and remote users more secure, optimized, and reliable access to modern applications deployed in public and private clouds, SaaS, or at the enterprise edge. These capabilities are delivered as a service from a global network of over 150 points of presence (PoPs).

“VMware, through its acquisition of VeloCloud, has a strong heritage in the SD-WAN space. We believe recognition from reports like the IDC MarketScape validate VMware as a leader for businesses of all sizes,” said Abe Ankumah, vice president of product management, SASE, VMware. “But what got us here won’t get us there. Customers want their security services delivered as seamless as their networking services. That’s why we continue to bolster our VMware SASE offering featuring our SD-WAN capabilities.”

To access an excerpt of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure 2021 Vendor Assessment (November 2021, IDC #US47279821), click <a href="https://sase.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware-sase/pdfs/idc-marketscape-worldwide-sd-wan-infrastructure-2021-nov.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.

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IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.  

VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As a trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to building a better future through the company’s 2030 Agenda. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.vmware.com/company" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.vmware.com/company</a>.

VMware, VMware SD-WAN and VMware SASE are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions.

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Angela Leaf, VMware Global Communications, Phone: +1 (860) 480-3367, <a href="mailto:aleaf@vmware.com">aleaf@vmware.com</a>

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Today, Security Operations Center (SOC) teams are understaffed and overwhelmed by cyberattacks that are increasing in both volume and sophistication. Amid the rapidly evolving threat landscape, security teams are spending too much time monitoring and validating alerts instead of gaining visibility and an understanding of the threats in their environment. A new VMware Carbon Black Cloud capability helps fill the gaps of understaffed security teams by providing 24/7/365 monitoring, alert triage, and threat analyst guidance on policy changes as well as assistance with threat containment in the event of an incident.

Introducing Managed Detection and Response for Endpoints and Workloads

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for endpoints and workloads provides critical insight into attacks along with recommendations for policy changes customers can take to remediate the threat. VMware Carbon Black Cloud MDR, supported by a world-class team of security experts, helps enterprises respond more quickly to cyberattacks. Our analysts monitor and analyze the data for our MDR customers in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud using advanced machine learning and algorithmic tool sets.

“As the threat surface expands and cyberattacks become increasingly destructive, our customers require a strong security posture that can be realized at speed,” said Kal De, vice president and general manager of VMware’s Security Business Unit. “VMware’s mission is to enable our customers to have the security required for the threats of today and tomorrow. Our MDR offering provides customers with the threat intelligence and the guidance required to help reduce the overall risk of security incidents.”

The new offering will provide security and IT teams with increased visibility and faster incident response, helping to reduce SOC staffing pressures and freeing up time for the security team to proactively hunt threats to better protect their organizations.

Threat Analyst Support to Stay One Step Ahead of Attackers

VMware analysts monitor MDR customer environments around the clock to protect the organization and provide critical threat intelligence. They can notify customer IT and security teams via email of threats and provide specific policy changes to address the threat via the VMware Carbon Black Cloud. In addition, analysts are available to provide customers with incident remediation guidance and assist with threat containment during an incident.

“We have over a million licensed endpoints on managed detection today and are exposed to different attacks across every vector, whereas an analyst sitting in a single SOC for an enterprise may not come across the same breadth and depth of threats,” said Taree Reardon, manager of MDR at VMware. “We’re able to give customers increased visibility into their environment because we can layer on that threat expertise which allows our analysts to identify and contain threats more quickly. By handling the first level of triage, this helps to reduce staffing pressures.”

As organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated and destructive attacks, VMware Carbon Black Cloud MDR will help bolster threat intelligence, expand incident response support, and provide expert alert triage and containment to reduce the time spent on an investigation. An example of the real-time analysis that supports VMware’s MDR offering is demonstrated in the dissection of the <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2019/11/wild-blue-yonder-vmware-carbon-black-threatsight-dissects-bluekeep-windows-exploit.html">BlueKeep Windows exploit</a> by VMware security experts. Providing this level of critical insight through VMware’s MDR offering opens up resources for SOC teams to focus on strategic initiatives and proactive threat hunting to better defend against cyberattacks.

VMware Carbon Black Cloud MDR will be available as of December 1, 2021. For more information, please visit our MDR <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/managed-detection-and-response.html">product page</a>.

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Introducing Managed Detection and Response for endpoints and workloads to help security teams stay one step ahead of attackers.

VMware Answers 'SOS' of Understaffed Security Teams

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At the onset of the 2020 pandemic, an  interconnected digital web helped power #ZoomLife’s meteoric rise into pop culture legend.  In this Pop Culture Tech episode, we talk about the culture and innovation powering our new world of work.

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Not every work experience outside the office is perfect. Presenters still forget to unmute. Attendees leave mics on. Yet today’s employees are feeling pretty good about remote working.

In the recent <a></a><a href="https://vmware.com/go/virtualfloorplan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for a New Era of Work study</a>, three-quarters (75%) of employees globally agreed moving to a distributed working environment has meant their performance—and not traditional metrics like time in the office—is being valued more by their employers.

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/category/pop-culture-tech" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pop Culture Tech's remote work podcast</a> episode checked in with two experts to explore how businesses and workers maintain the momentum.

In the 1970s, a very small group of employees began the teleworking trend, primarily doing tasks from home. After Y2K, increasing access to mobile devices and cloud technologies catalyzed work from anywhere and the remote workforce emerged. Then came 2020 and the pandemic, accelerating the growth and acceptance of work from everywhere by decades.

Today, remote and hybrid working styles are commonplace. Employees want these flexible workstyles to continue. And this has leaders around the world strategizing about how to concurrently maximize flexibility and productivity.

“The term ‘remote work’ will cease to exist. Very soon, remote work will just be work, because it will be the majority, and it will be the standard,” said Laurel Farrer, founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.distributeconsulting.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Distribute Consulting</a>.

Historically, mid-level managers and people farther along on their career journeys objected most to remote working’s viability. The primary reasons: working away from the office was so different from co-located environments and they couldn’t imagine how it would effectively serve the business.

The pandemic eliminated all the resistance and doubt around the credibility of remote work, Farrer believes, because every manager of every business in every industry experienced remote work at the same time. “Leaders were able to experience it in their teams; to see their teams staying productive,” she said. “They now have the evidence they needed to prove the viability of remote work as an operational model.”

The pandemic also changed employees’ perception of work. It’s no longer somewhere people go.

“Work is something we do,” explained Harry Moseley, Global CIO of <a href="https://zoom.us/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Zoom</a>. The challenge for organizations now is “how do you bring people back to the office in a way that is inclusive, like what we’ve experienced…where we can collaborate safely.”

Zoom, the company dedicated to making video communications frictionless and secure, has ideas.

CEO Eric Yuan founded the company on five principles that drive innovation, Moseley said:

The overarching vision that Zoom is working really hard on today, is “how can we make the virtual experience as good, if not better than the in-person experience,” said Moseley.

New Zoom capabilities are a start. Smart Gallery, for example, leverages artificial intelligence to provide immersive views and more so people can continue to experience the nonverbal cues they’ve gotten to accustomed to having while working away from the office.

What the pandemic has taught leaders and employees is that “there’s now a way to do business better,” concluded Farrer. And that includes asking hard questions—about empathy, alignment and shared values—and supporting the answers with modern communications channels and technology.

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VMware Workspace ONE Recognized with the Highest Score in Current Offering Category

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced it has been positioned as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021, which evaluated 11 unified endpoint management (UEM) vendors. The evaluated solution, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/workspace-one.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Workspace ONE</a>, was the top ranked solution in the current offering category and tied for the highest score in the strategy category.

According to the Forrester Wave report, “VMware continues to balance EX [employee experience], management, and security exceptionally well… In the past year, VMware has released multiple new market-leading capabilities, such as Digital Employee Experience Management (DEEM), Freestyle Orchestrator for low-code automation, and Anywhere Workspace, a remote work solution that combines endpoint management, security, virtualization, and SD-WAN into a single package.”

The report continues, “VMware supports a wide array of operating systems, delivers a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) experience, and has some unique integrations with human capital management (HCM) tools like Workday to enable day-zero onboarding for employees. Workspace ONE’s DEEM feature is one of the most advanced EUEM capabilities in this evaluation, and its endpoint management has some unique differentiators, such as Workspace ONE Assist for remote support… VMware is an excellent choice for large enterprises with heterogeneous computing needs, particularly in regulated or frontline-worker-oriented industries.”

Workspace ONE is one of the core technologies that comprise <a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/anywhere-workspace.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Anywhere Workspace</a>, an integrated solution that enables employees to work from anywhere with more secure, frictionless experiences. It brings together Workspace ONE with VMware Carbon Black Cloud and VMware SASE.

Workspace ONE UEM, part of the Workspace ONE platform, provides a comprehensive solution that enables companies to manage and better secure any device across all platforms. It incorporates modern device management, application management, and security that’s effective outside the corporate perimeter. It empowers IT to:

VMware continues to deliver on new innovations that make Workspace ONE the industry’s digital workspace platform of choice for IT and employees. Recent innovations added to the Workspace ONE platform, <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2021/10/vmworld-2021-anywhere-workspace-end-user-computing-keynote.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced at VMworld 2021</a>, include:

“Hybrid work is here, and it’s here to stay. With employees, including those at the frontline, accessing apps from the home, office and everywhere in between, IT teams are challenged to provide a great experience while providing rock solid security,” said Shankar Iyer, senior vice president and general manager, End User Computing, VMware. “We continue to bring industry-leading innovations to Workspace ONE to provide the broadest platform support, deepest management and security capabilities, and an expansive partner ecosystem. It’s this pace of innovation and ability to execute that, we believe, has earned us recognition from today’s leading analyst firms.”

To download “The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021” report, click <a href="https://www.vmware.com/learn/1165135_REG.html?cid=7012H000001lELc">here</a>.

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