Nerdio has released Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0. This release adds new capabilities for managing Microsoft Windows 365 and Cloud Desktop. Among the new features are automated workflows and advanced planning tools.
The product also comes with a new AI-powered cost and usage recommendation engine. It uses analytics to help IT administrators manage their IT estate and not overprovision.
Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO of Nerdio, said, “The shift to cloud-first computing has introduced new challenges for IT leaders, from cost predictability to security and endpoint management.
“With Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0, we are introducing the most advanced automation and cost optimization capabilities to address these market needs and make Windows 365 and AVD management simpler, more efficient, and more scalable than ever before.”
Building on its experience in managing end-user computing
Nerdio is using its experience of helping customers deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies to better manage Windows 365. Its customers are already using its existing products to manage their Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments.
This release expands on its existing tools to make life easier, especially in the areas of migration and provisioning. It also provides customers with greater visibility into their environments to reduce their attack surface. That includes deeper integration into Microsoft Intune.
According to the announcement, the new capabilities are grouped into four areas:
- Planning and migration: Nerdio is providing a new intelligent modelling tool for migration. It will allow customers to find the most efficient way of migrating large numbers of machines. It also includes app migration tools to ensure that any app issues are discovered during the modelling and not mid-migration. It will also speed up migration from other VDI environments to AVD and Microsoft 365.
- Visibility: New dashboards will surface more details of what is happening across all endpoints and cloud desktops. This also sees deeper integration with Microsoft Intune, which will provide data on security and other issues.
- Management: From image management to built-in remote support, administrators will be able to drill deeper and take control of any device. Importantly, it also contains granular RBAC tools which will deliver secure administration.
- Cost optimisation: Most companies have limited visibility into the number of software licences that they have. Using AI and advanced analytics, this feature will make it easier to reduce over-provisioning and ensure that only the software being used is licenced.
Enterprise Times: What does this mean
Managing sprawling environments has become a herculean task for many IT administrators. They lack insight into the number of instances they are managing, where they are and what software runs on them. Compounding that is the loss of visibility over the mix of BYOD and virtual devices in use.
Nerdio is positioning itself as the best tool for managing AVD and Windows 365. By adding greater integration with Microsoft’s own tools and AI, it wants to be the go-to tool for AVD and cloud desktops.
With the countdown to the end of Windows 10 well underway, it is a good time to make noise about what it can offer. More importantly, its cost optimisation tool will appear to large enterprises who see an opportunity to regain control over licence costs.
