Support demands on today's IT teams have never been higher. Employees are utilizing more devices and business applications than ever before while employers increasingly rely on these tools for mission-critical tasks and processes. So, when a device or app goes down in the field, IT must react quickly and efficiently to reduce the impact on employee productivity and safety, as well as improve customer satisfaction.
Our VMware Workspace ONE platform helps IT manage and better secure any device – mobile, PCs, rugged and IoT – from a single solution. VMware is committed to supporting customers with a unified digital workspace platform approach to drive significant time and cost savings for IT, improve security, and provide the best employee experience. We continue to invest in internal innovation efforts to build out Workspace ONE's unified endpoint management (UEM) capabilities while also exploring opportunities to augment by acquiring technologies and talent where needed. This strategy has, and will continue to, help us deliver the industry's leading digital workspace platform.
In line with this strategy, we are pleased to announce today our intent to acquire AetherPal, a provider of remote support solutions that enable IT to remotely view, control, troubleshoot, and fix devices and applications in the field to improve productivity and efficiency, while reducing downtime.
Remote support capabilities are a high priority requirement for purpose-built and ruggedized devices that are used for specific jobs today – in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, retail settings, etc. When these devices have issues in the field, productivity is directly impacted. As more and more business-critical applications and work flows move to new form factors and locations outside the office, remote support technology will likewise become a high priority requirement for supporting employees across all businesses. For telco operators and device hardware manufacturers that support thousands or even millions of business customers and consumers, the need for remote support technologies is even more profound.
Upon close, AetherPal's modern approach to enabling remote support will add to the intelligence-driven Workspace ONE platform and its deep cross-platform UEM capabilities, reinforcing VMware's commitment to simplifying customers' digital workspace journeys.
I look forward to adding another significant capability to the VMware end-user computing platform upon closing of the acquisition of AetherPal. To learn more about the announced acquisition and how it supports our Digital Workspace strategy, read this blog post.
Forward-Looking Statements
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