VMware, AirWatch Solutions Available Through Collaboration Bundle

VMware (VMW) customers will be able to purchase several of the virtualization giant’s most popular mobile security and social solutions in a single package with the release of the VMware Collaboration Bundle.

The product suite brings together AirWatch Content Locker file sync and sharing, Socialcast enterprise social networking and AirWatch Video distribution and sharing products in a unified offering so that customers can help their employees access enterprise information on the go.

VMware expects the bundle to also provide its customers with an all-in-one solution for aggregating and mobilizing their cloud-based information repositories, as well as bridging existing systems with secure social collaboration, according to the announcement.

“The VMware Collaboration Bundle offers our customers the best-in-breed content and collaboration capabilities offered by VMware and AirWatch,” said Erik Frieberg, vice president of End-User Computing at VMware, in a statement. “We believe computing comprises mobile, desktop and content and collaboration, and this new bundle makes it even easier for our customers to take advantage of content, social and video initiatives within their organizations.”

Directly from the announcement, the VMware Collaboration Bundle will allow users to:

• Aggregate content across new and existing internal and external repositories with mobile-optimized access and enterprise data loss prevention.
• Align the organization with open channels to broadcast information in any medium and create feedback loops to drive engagement
• Discover experts within the organization through social networking, and engage with them in real-time to get questions answered
• Connect people and processes to applications, systems and workflows by integrating mobile collaboration services into new and existing applications

VMware’s Collaboration Bundle is available now.