What is VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure?
Deliver the Best Experience from Azure at the Lowest Cost
Decrease Costs and Increase Performance
See how Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure delivers the best Azure Virtual Desktop experience at the lowest cost.
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Lower DaaS Costs and Simplify Management
The next-gen hybrid DaaS architecture behind Horizon Cloud is the lowest-cost approach to deploying Windows 10 and Windows 11 virtual desktops and apps from Azure with all the enterprise-class capabilities of VMware Horizon. From a single cloud-based console, you can deploy and manage desktops wherever they are–on-premises or in Azure–with cloud-native features like application, user environment, and power management, plus much more.
Leverage your Azure Virtual Desktop benefits
Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure adds incredible value to Azure Virtual Desktop through advanced power management, application and user environment management, and hybrid capabilities.
Application and User Environment Management
Simplify application management while reducing cloud consumption costs with App Volumes while using Dynamic Environment Manager to add advanced user environment management capabilities.
Next-gen Hybrid DaaS Architecture
Horizon Cloud’s thin edge architecture significantly reduces monthly infrastructure costs while increasing scalability and manageability.
Hybrid Desktop Virtualization
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.
Security and Performance
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.
How Desktop-as-a-Service Supports Scaling and Security
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.
Benefits of Horizon Cloud
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Architecture
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.
Flexible Licensing
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.
Simplified Management
Reduce demand on IT staff by using a consistent management interface that unifies and simplifies management tasks for all Horizon environments.
Horizon + Azure Virtual Desktop
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.
Empower the Hybrid Workforce
Use Cases
Remote Work
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.
Hybrid Environments & App Colocation
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.
Rapid Business Continuity
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.
Customer Success
Horizon allowed us to virtualize our desktops and make them available no matter where that user base was
- Jarin Dykstra, Senior Manager, Information Systems, 77NRG
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
- Molinero, IT Manager, Ficohsa
Related Resources
Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Demo
Take a closer look at how Horizon Cloud and Microsoft Azure are better together.
What’s Next for Cloud Technology?
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.
Horizon Cloud Surpasses Citrix in Product Performance
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.
Related Products
Scale and secure your Horizon deployment, enhance the end user experience, and easily monitor the health and performance of your entire stack.
Horizon
Secure Virtual desktop (VDI) and app platform
Horizon Apps
Unified workspace for published, SaaS, and mobile apps
App Volumes
Real-time app delivery with lifecycle management
Horizon Control Plane Services
Cloud management services delivered via Horizon Control Plane
Desktop & App Virtualization
Publish end-user desktops and applications in a data center
NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Accelerate VDI deployments with advanced load balancing integration
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Does Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure work with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop?
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.
In what markets is Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure available?
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.
How is Horizon Cloud sold?
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.
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