Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches?

Omnissa, the former VMware end-user compute business spun out last year as an independent company, is moving beyond its traditional territory of managing endpoint devices and into server management. The company quietly released a beta of a Windows Server management tool in April and told would-be users it will allow them to …

[Richard 12]

Interesting choice of examples

Virtual reality devices like Microsoft’s HoloLens and Apple’s Vision Pro are also targets.

HoloLens is completely dead, even the military project is over - and it won't even run with Windows 11.

Vision Pro theoretically still exists, but has no software other than the ports Apple paid for, and likely won't exist next year as you'd be crazy to spend 3500 when the 500 units are as good, possibly better and have far better software support.

[DS999]

Using Apple Watches to access corporate data?

I have an Apple Watch and I can't figure out what they're even talking about here. Maybe syncing to the corporate calendar? Getting email notifications? It isn't like anyone is accessing the corporate SAP instance from their watch.

Sounds more likely they're wanting to look for additional sources of revenue and thinking "maybe we can make them pay more to manages employee watches with some scare stories about "security".

[that one in the corner]

Re: Using Apple Watches to access corporate data?

"Just imagine, if a Foreign State Actor made all your employee's Smart Watches wind backwards by 27 minutes, everybody would be late to your vital all-hands meetings! The results would be catastrophic, as the golf club will let someone else have your slot."

"Damn those foreign devils, always stopping me lowering my handicap! Here is a contract. Now, you said something about Smart Pedometers and a threat to my eldest's backhand swing?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Really?

identifying all endpoints running a certain version of an application

Expecting AI to grok a fairly straightforward query (in SQL say) is more an act of blind faith than training or (better) educating your people in the use of a structured query interface.

As for assisting admins to locate material in the corporate knowledge base I doubt that AI would be much better than a KWIC index or just a plain grep.

Most organisations' knowledge bases are so massively out of date and wildly inaccurate as to qualify as works of, usually outsourced authors', fiction.

Doubtless in the near future AI will be pressed into creating and maintaining the corporate knowledge base. Hallucinogenic fiction?