![](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/acer-chromebook-11-n7-c731-left-facing.jpg?w=738\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
One of the beautiful things about owning a Google Chromebook laptop is the surprising lack of maintenance involved. The browser is essentially the OS and you connect to applications via the cloud. Everything gets updated automatically. Easy, peasy right?<\/p>\n
Well, it gets a bit more complicated when you bring a device into a mixed environment in the enterprise, and VMware announced a partnership with Google today to help control identity and access and set policies across the Chromebook line.<\/p>\n
I can hear you saying, but isn\u2019t that Google\u2019s job? Indeed it is \u2014 or can be. The trouble is that large companies don\u2019t to tend to use Chromebooks exclusively. When you are managing multiple devices that include Chrome OS\u00a0along with others\u00a0running Windows, OSX, iOS and Android, it suddenly gets a bit trickier to manage policy across all those OS\u00a0types, says Sumit Dhawan, Senior VP and general manager for end user computing at VMware.<\/p>\n
Using VMware\u2019s Workspace One product, companies can control access, set policies and handle identity management all from a single environment across all of the supported operating systems. \u201cThink about every stack. There is a vertical stack for every platform, but it becomes complex when the customer has heterogeneity in the environment. If you have a combination of [operating systems] the heterogeneity of enforcing identity and access becomes much more [difficult],\u201d Dhawan told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because it forces both\u00a0IT and end users to manage and navigate multiple systems. \u201cWe are providing a much more [unified] experience for end users from on-boarding to retiring devices, communicating with IT, password resets \u2014 all of things they do across devices while interacting with IT,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This kind of integration actually extends beyond managing across devices to allowing users to access a variety of applications including web or cloud-based applications and virtualized applications from Chrome OS (or whatever the OS happens to be).<\/p>\n
VMware was hearing from customers that they wanted to extend that ability to\u00a0Chromebooks in the same way they were managing these other devices. \u201cI think customers were telling us that the Chromebook was the only environment where they still had to manage and secure the devices in a silo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Numbers from IDC suggest Chromebooks are gaining traction in business. In fact, by 2018 they expect that 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies will have them\u00a0being supported by IT. VMware is simply giving customers what they\u00a0want.<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s Rajen Sheth, senior director of product Management for Android and Chrome for Business and Education says this is really the beginning of a broader partnership with VMware that is just beginning to play out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve started a virtualization stack. We\u2019ve worked with VMware to optimize applications on Chrome OS, both the Android and virtualized apps. We\u2019re working with them on deeper integrations. It\u2019s just the beginning of the process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sheth says they hope eventually to be able to bring a variety of applications into the Chromebook, whether a Chrome, Android or even a virtualized app\u00a0and expose those in the Chrome OS Launcher\u00a0with Workspace One providing\u00a0that ability to set policy across those apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/acer-chromebook-11-n7-c731-left-facing.jpg?w=680\")
One of the beautiful things about owning a Google Chromebook laptop is the surprising lack of maintenance involved. The browser is essentially the OS and you connect to applications via the cloud. Everything gets updated automatically. Easy, peasy right? Well, it gets a bit more complicated when you bring a device into a mixed environment in the enterprise, and VMware announced a partnership… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-340484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}