VMware has outlined how autonomous workspaces powered by data science can help support IT teams in organisations which are adopting a hybrid work model.
During VMware Explore 2022, the company stated the future of hybrid work would drive an evolution of the digital workspace that will be self-configuring, self-healing, and self-securing.
VMware also unveiled new features across its Anywhere Workspace platform to add automation to an organisation's end-user computing environments.
Shankar Iyer, Senior Vice president and General Manager, End-User Computing, VMware, commented: "The reality of hybrid work is each employee, and each device is a front door into the organisation and its resources.
"IT must not only make that front door secure but also welcoming as employees access apps from anywhere.
"The only way IT teams will be able to support hybrid work is by implementing simplified, unified, and automated processes.
"Autonomous Workspaces represent the next evolution of managing digital workspaces, and VMware is once again pioneering the path forward for organisations."
VMware said that future digital workspaces should be configured to a "desired state" instead of constantly monitoring for changes and enforcing reactive policies.
The company also states that solutions must intelligently detect and isolate end-user experience incidents and automatically remediate issues to a normal working state.
Finally, the solutions need to take proactive actions to secure workspace access, quarantine apps or devices and remediate anomalies.
To support the journey to delivering autonomous workspaces, VMware has added tools to its Anywhere Workspace, such as introducing a next-generation VMware Horizon Cloud that will enable multi-cloud agility and flexibility.
The new release is a significant update to Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure that can simplify the infrastructure needed for the solution to be deployed inside customer environments.
VMware also announced the widening of its Digital Employee Experience solutions beyond Workspace ONE UEN to include VMware Horizon and other third-party managed and unmanaged devices.
To support this, VMware is introducing a Digital Employee Experience Management (DEEM) solutions pack for customers with frontline deployments.
These "out of the box" dashboards span ROI, shared-device usage, device loss, critical application performance, and more.
VMware has continued to roll out advanced Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) capabilities to support multi-platform automation.
According to VMware, since the tool was released, it has seen a "significant" adoption with more than 26 million automation runs designed to help IT teams eliminate complex and manual configuration tasks.
The last key innovation to the Anywhere Workspace from VMware to additional security for the platform.
VMware Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense is an add-on for the platform which addresses application-based threats, web and content vulnerabilities, and more.
VMware is a provider of multi-cloud services for apps and aims to give businesses the flexibility and choice to enable digital innovation.
Last year Dell confirmed it was selling off its majority stake in VMware after the tech giant inherited the company through its gargantuan acquisition of EMC for $67bn in 2015.
