Google partners with VMware today announced that they
are working together to make it easier for Chromebook users in the enterprise
to access Windows apps and the Windows desktop on their machines. Using
VMware’s Horizon desktop as a service (DaaS), which uses VMware‘s HTML5 Blast
protocol, it will now be easier for Chromebook users to connect to a
traditional Windows experience.
It means you can work with Chromebooks and connect to a
Windows experience running the VMware Horizon View. As the countdown to Windows
XP end of life continues, deploying Chromebooks and taking advantage of a DaaS
environment ensures that security vulnerabilities, application compatibility
and migration budgets will be a thing of the past.
By Using VMware’s Horizon Chromebook-optimized DaaS, Google
says, enables “customers to centralize other desktop environments and manage
these as a cloud service.” Right now, this service is only obtainable as a
fully managed, subscription-based offering from VMware and its partners, both
in the cloud and within hybrid deployments.
VMware Horizon View 5.3 works on Chromebooks now as an
on-premise service. The technology will also be accessible “soon” as an
application that can be installed from the Google Chrome Web Store, but regrettably
Google wouldn’t offer a specific date.
As the PC market shrinks
and Chromebooks become more widely used, solutions like this will make the
Chromebook smart to a segment that is holding onto tradition: enterprise.
Though it’s still Windows as a back-end solution, businesses can now operate
Chromebooks for their employees, accessing everything via VMWare.
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