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Deliver the Best Experience from Azure at the Lowest Cost

Decrease Costs and Increase Performance

See how Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure deliver the best Azure Virtual Desktop experience at the lowest cost.

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Lower DaaS Costs and Simplify Management

Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure is the lowest-cost approach to deploying Windows 10 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Simplified Management

Reduce demand on IT staff by using a consistent management interface that unifies and simplifies management tasks for all Horizon environments.

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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.

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Use Cases

Remote Work

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

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

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.

Remote Work

Hybrid

Business Continuity

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.

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Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure FAQ

Learn how our partnership with Microsoft can help accelerate your move to Windows 10 and streamline the management of virtual desktops and apps.

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Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Datasheet

Find out how the features of Azure Virtual Desktop extend to Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure.

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Related Products

Related Products

Scale and secure your Horizon deployment, enhance the end user experience, and easily monitor the health and performance of your entire stack.
vRealize Operations

Horizon

Secure Virtual desktop (VDI) and app platform

vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite

Horizon Apps

Unified workspace for published, SaaS, and mobile apps

vRealize Cloud Universal

App Volumes

Real-time app delivery with lifecycle management

NSX Data Center

Horizon Control Plane Services

Cloud management services delivered via Horizon Control Plane

NSX Data Center

Desktop & App Virtualization

Publish end-user desktops and applications in a data center

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.

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.

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