Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop Platform Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure
Delivers enterprise-class virtual desktops and applications from Microsoft Azure and adds incredible value above and beyond Azure Virtual Desktop.
See how Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure delivers the best Azure Virtual Desktop experience at the lowest cost.
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Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure adds incredible value to Azure Virtual Desktop through advanced power management, application and user environment management, and hybrid capabilities.
Simplify application management while reducing cloud consumption costs with App Volumes while using Dynamic Environment Manager to add advanced user environment management capabilities.
Horizon Cloud’s thin edge architecture significantly reduces monthly infrastructure costs while increasing scalability and manageability.
Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure lets you deliver the most cost-effective, cloud-based Windows 10 virtual desktops and applications in a hybrid environment with existing on-premises investments.
Deliver high-performance virtual desktops and applications with intrinsic security that leverages VMware Horizon Cloud and Carbon Black, while ensuring a great user experience with VMware SD-WAN.
It’s time to consider Desktop-as-a-Service or DaaS for your distributed workforce. Read the CMSWire article to learn more about DaaS, how it differs from traditional VDI, and how DaaS is helping companies scale their remote capacity while addressing the security challenges of supporting remote and hybrid employees.
Horizon Cloud provides a multi-tenant, cloud-scale architecture that enables you to choose where virtual desktops and apps reside – on-premises, in the cloud, or both.
Horizon subscription lets you purchase exactly what you need, from the low-cost Horizon Apps Standard to the all-in-one Horizon Universal, we've got you covered.
Reduce demand on IT staff by using a consistent management interface that unifies and simplifies management tasks for all Horizon environments.
Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure is the only way to deliver the economics of multi-session Windows 10 with all the features of VMware Horizon.
Remote work has never been more important to business continuity. With Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, you can easily expand your desktop virtualization capabilities to a VMware-managed DaaS platform that provides the speed, flexibility, and features to keep your users productive while keeping costs low.
As your application services move to Microsoft Azure, it makes sense for the desktops and app front-ends to follow.
Using Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure as part of a hybrid solution with VMware Horizon allows you to deliver virtual desktops and apps from whichever location makes the most sense, while managing all environments from a single pane of glass.
Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure can be deployed incredibly quickly–something that’s more important than ever with the increase in demand for remote work and business continuity. With Horizon Cloud, you can accomplish in days what would take months to build, configure, and deploy on-premises.
Horizon allowed us to virtualize our desktops and make them available no matter where that user base was
By implementing VMware Horizon Cloud virtual desktops and applications platform on Microsoft Azure, we achieved what we had never been able to achieve at the bank — which was one of our major challenges — have our employees work from home as if they were in their offices
Take a closer look at how Horizon Cloud and Microsoft Azure are better together.
Hear from VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram and Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella as they discuss how the move to the cloud provides a shared opportunity to help customers thrive with Microsoft and VMware Cloud offerings like Horizon Cloud on Azure.
Access the report from Info-Tech Research Group to deep dive into individual performance metrics and see how Horizon outperforms Citrix across majority of the capabilities and features.
Secure Virtual desktop (VDI) and app platform
Unified workspace for published, SaaS, and mobile apps
Real-time app delivery with lifecycle management
Cloud management services delivered via Horizon Control Plane
Publish end-user desktops and applications in a data center
Accelerate VDI deployments with advanced load balancing integration
Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure is a DaaS platform that can be deployed into a customer's existing Microsoft Azure tenant. The service makes it easy and cost-effective to deliver virtualized Windows desktops and applications to any device, anytime.
Microsoft and VMware have partnered to extend the capabilities of Azure Virtual Desktop to Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Customers can leverage the cost-saving and management benefits of VMware Horizon with the economoics of Azure Virtual Desktop, like Windows 10 Enteprise multi-session.
Horizon Cloud desktops can be deployed in any Azure region. Horizon Control Plane instances are deployed in strategic Azure regions around the world. See https://www.vmware.com/global-infrastructure.html for more information. Additional regions are added based on customer demand.
Customers purchase a Horizon subscription which allows deployment on any supported platform. This includes Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure as well as VMware Horizon 8, which can be delivered on-premises, in Dell/EMC Cloud, Google Cloud VMware Engine, VMC on AWS, or Azure VMware Solution.