VMware, Stratodesk and AuthX Join Forces to Expand Options for Secure SignOn into Digital Workspaces at VMware Explore

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 23, 2023--

Long-standing partners Stratodesk, pioneer of secure managed endpoints for modern workspaces, and VMware, a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control, are pleased to announce their latest technology cooperation with passwordless authentication specialist AuthX. Together, Stratodesk, VMware and AuthX offer an efficient and hyper-secure end-to-end healthcare technology solution that safeguards patient data, boosts efficiency, and lowers the total cost of ownership for healthcare organizations.

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Stratodesk and AuthX at VMware Explore 2023 in Las Vegas. (Photo: Business Wire)

With AuthX’s cloud-hosted, multi-factor, passwordless authentication solutions, healthcare professionals can log into their digital workspaces from anywhere at any time. A platform for easy identification and access management, AuthX enables healthcare organizations to streamline their operations while keeping providers productive and patient information secure.

Stratodesk's small footprint, Linux-based managed OS, NoTouch, gives IT teams the freedom to transform any end-user computing device, regardless of make or model, into a highly secure VDI/cloud workspace endpoint. Stratodesk NoTouch enables hospitals, outpatient clinics, and at-home services to cost-effectively and productively manage their now unified endpoint deployments with the NoTouch Center management platform. Together with AuthX and VMware, Stratodesk OS endpoints are equipped with reliable cloud workstations and multi-factor passwordless authentication, built to streamline work for professionals in healthcare, financial services, and other industries.

VMware Horizon and Horizon Cloud Strengthen the quality of patient care with an integrated digital foundation for healthcare by supporting secure access to applications and critical protected health information (PHI) from any device, anywhere. Physicians and nurses have immediate access to mission-critical applications such as EHR and imaging software, alongside web, SaaS and mobile apps, through a unified digital workspace.

“We are thrilled to announce the technology collaboration with VMware and AuthX as Stratodesk continues to optimize endpoints, security, and management. As organizations everywhere become increasingly more security aware and sensitive, they invest on expanding the options for their customers to meet their environment access, security, and compliance requirements. This partnership marks an exciting journey of growth and advancement for the EUC and MFA space,” said Emanuel Pirker, CEO of Stratodesk.

“This solution leverages the power of authentication, endpoint management, and cloud integration that is timely for Healthcare customers as they face increasing demands for secure and agile workflows. VMware innovation is driven through partnerships like the one presented here with Stratodesk and AuthX.” - Michael Robinson, VP of Healthcare, VMware.

“Our co-development work integrates with VMware Horizon and Stratodesk NoTouch OS delivering a step forward into AuthX’s journey to provide complete and unified security solutions. As the leader in SaaS-based SSO and MFA including Badge 'Tap & Go' offerings they bring together user-friendly identity and access management with security, privacy and control for an optimized user experience,” said Marc Potash, Authx CEO.

Stratodesk is a sponsor of VMware Explore in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Stratodesk, VMware and AuthX solution is demonstrated at the Stratodesk booth #209.

About Stratodesk

Founded in 2010, Stratodesk drives the adoption of secure managed endpoints for accessing the modern workspace. Stratodesk NoTouch software gives IT users endpoint security and full manageability while allowing the flexibility to choose endpoint hardware, workspace solution, cloud or on-premises deployment, and the cost consumption model that fits their business. Through its U.S. and European offices, Stratodesk is growing a disruptive community of channel partners and technology providers committed to modernizing and digitizing workspaces. Today, with one million licenses deployed globally across multiple industries, Stratodesk prides itself on its authenticity and dedication to delivering the most innovative software solution to its customers. For more information, visit www.stratodesk.com.

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VMware-Broadcom, GenAI, and Future Of Edge: Five Questions With Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready

“We’re kind of punching above their weight class, and that speaks to the partners,” says Scale Computing CEO and co-founder Jeff Ready.

Intel’s announcement last month that it would no longer produce the Next Unit of Computing (NUC), the backbone of edge server environments and one of the best-selling computers in the world, didn’t square with Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready.

“I’m like what? They sell thousands of these things,” he told CRN. “They’re getting out of the manufacturing part of that business. They already have other partners. You could be an Intel-authorized manufacturer and make them. Which is how most of Intel’s business works. The NUC was its own sort of thing. Early on, no one was making these tiny PCs.”

[RELATED: Intel May License NUC Mini PC Designs To Other Firms, No Plans For Now]

Ready, who co-founded and runs Scale Computing, an Indianapolis-based VMware competitor that specializes in edge environments, said the NUC was an odd line of business for the company. But Ready said it’s been a great opportunity to remind customers that with Scale as a foundation they can always change hardware to match business needs.

“Even if the NUCs were going away, the fact is three years from now that generation of NUC or Dell server, or Lenovo server are totally different, and may not be backward compatible,” he said. “With Scale, it doesn’t matter. You can run a 10-year-old server next to the old one. If you have GPU needs all of a sudden, you just drop it in there.”

Another market factor driving business is VMware’s merger with Broadcom, which has been churning through regulators for more than a year and mired in a second-request FTC investigation since July 11, 2022.

The $61 billion deal has won approval from regulators in the European Union, the UK, Canada, South Africa, and Brazil, but is still awaiting approval from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Ready calls that, “All good news. It’s one of the top three things they have going on in terms of lead generation.”

He talked with CRN about the merger, Intel’s announcement, and how Scale Computing is preparing its customers and partners for generative AI at the edge.

O’Ryan Johnson is a veteran news reporter. He covers the data center beat for CRN and hopes to hear from channel partners about how he can Strengthen his coverage and write the stories they want to read. He can be reached at ojohnson@thechannelcompany.com..

Lenovo and VMware Expand Partnership to Bring New NVIDIA-Powered Turnkey Generative AI and Multi-Cloud Solutions to Every Business

Today at VMware Explore 2023, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced the first turnkey solutions from their joint Edge and Cloud Innovation Labs, delivering modern hybrid multi-cloud capabilities to mid-size companies and helping customers more easily harness data to empower their intelligent transformation. Lenovo also unveiled its latest Reference Design for Generative AI in partnership with VMware, a fully integrated Lenovo ThinkSystem solution featuring NVIDIA-accelerated computing and software that is purpose-built to help businesses implement AI and delivers one of the most versatile, accelerated computing platform on the market. The solutions are part of a newly expanded partnership with VMware that is focused on providing businesses of all sizes with an accelerated path to digital transformation through new, integrated edge-to-cloud solutions that simplify the deployment of next-generation AI and data intelligence. Lenovo is also working with VMware and NVIDIA in support of the new VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA generative AI solution announced today at VMware Explore.  

“Lenovo is committed to being the most trusted partner and empowering their customers’ intelligent transformation by enabling IT modernization,” said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group. “This expanded collaboration with VMware is a pivotal next step in enabling more businesses to seamlessly leverage modern edge, AI, and hybrid cloud capabilities powered by NVIDIA in order to harness data for accelerated business outcomes.”  

“VMware and Lenovo are partnering to help clients of all sizes become digital companies by investing in the infrastructure required to power a new generation of modern applications, such as Generative AI,” said Krish Prasad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group, VMware. “The results from their joint Edge and Cloud Labs and the new fully integrated Lenovo systems are important milestones. Together we’re helping mid-market and enterprise customers manage their changing IT landscape, deliver faster innovation, and Strengthen business outcomes.”   

“Lenovo, NVIDIA and VMware are helping customers harness the potential of generative AI with full-stack computing, integrated systems and advanced AI software,” said Manuvir Das, Vice President of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA. “Together, we’re helping enterprises create custom models using their valuable business data that will enable them to run intelligent generative AI applications, including intelligent chatbots, assistants, search and summarization.”  

The proliferation of data is fueling the demand for computing everywhere. Businesses across all industries, including manufacturing and retail, need IT solutions that help deliver AI and real-time insights from any location, from the data center to the edge and cloud.   

Lenovo is extending its partnership with VMware to help customers harness the value of their data, deploying purpose-built NVIDIA AI solutions to transform their business with more predictable outcomes by leveraging NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the enterprise-grade software that powers the NVIDIA AI platform. NVIDIA AI Enterprise includes NVIDIA NeMo software to accelerate the development and deployment of production-ready large language models (LLMs). Lenovo’s latest Reference Design for Generative AI based on LLMs shows businesses how to deploy and commercialize powerful generative AI tools and foundation models, using a pre-validated, fully integrated, and performance optimized solution for data centers running on VMware vSphere.   

The solution features NVIDIA GPU-dense platforms that are purpose built for AI workloads, including the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 and ThinkSystem SR670 V2, offering up to eight-GPUs in a compact 3U or smaller footprint for the highest performing accelerated workloads. The Lenovo computing platforms serve as the most versatile, accelerated computing platforms on the market with three server configurations in one, including support for NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU systems with NVIDIA NVLink technology and Lenovo Neptune hybrid liquid cooling, as well as four or eight GPU configurations featuring NVIDIA L40S and 80GB NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, or NVIDIA H100 NVL servers. Combining the power of Lenovo and NVIDIA technologies with VMware, these servers will help professionals worldwide advance AI and bring generative AI applications like intelligent chatbots, search, and summarization tools to users across industries.  

To further support critical network integration, Lenovo is adding the latest NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ networking technology from NVIDIA to its AI portfolio, using NVIDIA BlueField®-3 data processing units (DPUs) and NVIDIA Spectrum-4 switches in its generative AI reference design for more advanced AI workload integration. These add to existing options for accelerated networking with NVIDIA ConnectX-7 Ethernet NICs.  

Additionally, new ThinkAgile VX Integrated Systems with VMware are designed to help mid-market customers enter the next wave of AI and machine learning with more efficient IT that is easier to deploy across hybrid multi-cloud and edge environments. The new, jointly developed hyperconverged infrastructure solutions are factory-integrated, pre-configured, and ready-to-go, simplifying the path to hybrid multi-cloud for midsize customers. Offering advanced scalability, high performance, and reliability, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX with VMware Cloud Foundation delivers a complete and integrated multi-cloud infrastructure solution for building and managing private and hybrid clouds, leveraging VMware’s tools for automating the deployment and management of infrastructure and applications.   

Lenovo is also delivering a future-ready, on-demand model with Lenovo TruScale Hybrid Cloud for VMware. This new private cloud infrastructure as a service offering will enable IT admins and developers to more easily build, run, manage, and secure traditional and next-gen applications across multiple private data centers and cloud providers. Lenovo TruScale Hybrid Cloud for VMware combines the extensibility and enhanced security of VMware Cloud infrastructure with the simplicity of cloud operations, enabling customers to easily scale hybrid cloud workloads on demand. With the Lenovo TruScale for VMware, customers are supported by a single, integrated billing, pay-as-you-grow model to achieve total cost of ownership savings.   

Together, the extended collaboration between Lenovo and VMware will expand joint, go-to-market strategies and deliver new on-demand services, making modern IT infrastructure solutions more easily accessible to a broader range of customers.   

Visit https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/alliance/vmware/ to learn more. 

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