GEC NEWS WIREStrengthen End-User Computing Offerings to Enhance Customers’ Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
F5 Networks and VMware announced a number of collaborative efforts designed to provide secure access control for customers’ virtual desktop deployments. The companies’ compelling new offerings introduce powerful capabilities to uniquely meet customer needs in the mobile-cloud era, as end-users continue to work from all locations, and access their desktops and applications from various mobile devices.
F5 is bringing to market new versions of its BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) solution that have been tailor-made to deliver secure access and optimized performance for VMware Horizon View. Available in a range of throughput and concurrent user options, these new offerings cost-effectively enable customers of different size and scale to add industry leading secure access technologies to Horizon View. In addition, F5 is introducing a dedicated iApp and reference architecture to significantly speed deployments and provide prescriptive guidance on how these new solutions support VMware technologies.
“F5 shares our commitment to helping customers prepare for and embrace the mobile-cloud era. Adoption of VMware’s virtual desktop solutions continues to grow at a rapid pace, and F5’s new offerings give customers options in how to best combine technologies to enable mobile workforces to access their desktops and apps securely anytime and anywhere. I am excited about the strategic alignment and collaboration between the two companies, which will bring even richer solutions to our joint customer,” said Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware.
“One of our goals in building an ecosystem of partners is to combine the advantages of F5 technologies with the compelling offerings of vendors in adjacent markets. One of the core tenets of the F5 Synthesis architectural vision is intelligent services orchestration, and we see VMware as a key partner in this space. Together, we look forward to deepening our successful partnership with VMware to bring additional joint VDI solutions and benefits to enterprise organizations and beyond,” said Manny Rivelo, executive vice president of strategic solutions, F5
