Optimize Your Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Experience
Boost Azure Virtual Desktop Capabilities
Simplify app and image management, optimize user experience, and gain more value by leveraging the cost-effectiveness of Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session while supporting hybrid deployments with Azure and on-premises workloads.
Enhance the Windows 365 Experience
Elevate the Windows 365 experience with simplified app management, broad device and peripheral support, and hybrid cloud management across deployments.
Extend Horizon 8 with AVD and W365
Easily add AVD multi-session or Windows 365 cloud desktops to your existing Horizon 8 environment and manage from a single control plane.
2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service
VMware was positioned as a Leader in this inaugural report for its hybrid cloud support and enhanced employee experience.
Add Value to Azure Virtual Desktop Capabilities
Real-time App Delivery and Management
Simplify app management and migrate faster from Windows 10 to Windows 11 with App Volumes' application layering and on demand app delivery.
Optimal Desktop and App Experience
Ensure smooth, high-fidelty displays and ensure quality experience under any network condition with VMware Blast protocol, offering an immersive end-user experience built to work on Azure.
Broad Device and Peripheral Support
Support a diverse array of client platforms, endpoints, and peripherals for industry-specific use cases including healthcare Tap and Go and Federal smart cards.
Personalized End-User Environment
Together with FSLogix, Dynamic Environment Manager delivers personalized sessions and security policies for hybrid and mobile workers across all their different devices.
Seamless Azure Active Domain Access
Offers authentication to on-premises directory services (AD) and more complex directory structures, providing a more streamlined experience.
Cloud Consumption Cost Management
Reduce cloud consumption costs with intelligent power management, advanced load balancing, and automatic workload scaling, paying only for the capacity used.
Seamlessly Enhance Windows 365 with Horizon Cloud
Modern Application Management
Streamline app management and delivery with App Volumes, easily enabling access to apps for Cloud PCs. With 99% app compatibility, management of your entire app fleet is simplified and ensures employees stay productive.
Optimized Desktop Experience
Ensures seamless, high-fidelity virtual experiences, even in graphically intensive 3D or high-definition displays, maintaining quality, even with unstable connections.
Broad Device & Peripheral Support
Offers extensive support for most operating systems and supports peripherals, matching a user’s local device experience.
Enhanced Audio Visual for Collaboration Tools
Provides optimized audio and video support for key collaboration solutions, including Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, and Zoom, improving call and video quality.
Flexible Deployment Options with Hybrid Cloud Management
Provides the flexibility to deploy Windows 365 alongside Horizon 8 or Horizon Cloud, empowering organizations to place workloads where needed and take advantage of cloud capacity and scalability.
Simplified Access
Allows end users to access their Cloud PCs, via the Horizon client or the Windows 365 portal, ensuring seamless access to their productivity applications with familiar tools.
Hybrid Work
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.
Hybrid Environments and App Colocation
Deliver virtual desktops and apps from whichever location makes the most sense, while managing all environments from a single pane of glass.
Ensure Business Continuity
Built on an agile, cloud-foundation you gain the flexibility and resiliencey needed to meet changing business requirements or tackle disruptions that impact business continuity.
Hybrid Work
Hybrid Work
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.
Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Environments and App Colocation
Deliver virtual desktops and apps from whichever location makes the most sense, while managing all environments from a single pane of glass.
Business Continuity
Ensure Business Continuity
Built on an agile, cloud-foundation you gain the flexibility and resiliencey needed to meet changing business requirements or tackle disruptions that impact business continuity.
Case Studies
“By moving to VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure and giving a very consistent experience to our agents, we’ve freed up our engineers.”
- Billy Macdonald, Senior Director of DevOps
“By implementing VMware Horizon Cloud … we achieved what we had never been able to achieve at the bank—have our employees work from home as if they were in their offices.”
- Carlos Molinero, IT Manager
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Explore Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure and embrace the future of hybrid work and Desktops-as-a-Service.
