Take Control of Your Multi-Cloud Environment

73% of enterprises use two or more public clouds today. While multi-cloud accelerates digital transformation, it also introduces complexity and risk.

Simplicity Across Clouds Is Rare
91% of executives are looking to improve “consistency across [their] public cloud environments."

Applications Need to Be Modernized
68% of developers want to expand use of modern application frameworks, APIs and services.

Distributed Work Models Are Here to Stay
72% of enterprise employees are working from non-traditional environments.

Security Is a Top-Down Concern
Risk related to security, data and privacy issues remains the #1 multi-cloud challenge.

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VMware Cross-Cloud™ services enable organizations to unlock the potential of multi-cloud with enterprise security and resiliency.

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Modernize Faster Across Clouds

Modernize apps faster with a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform to help you build and run all apps consistently across clouds.

Get on a Faster Path to Prod

Build and deploy quickly and securely on any public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.

Simplify Kubernetes Operations

Build and operate a secure, multi-cloud container infrastructure at scale.

Pair with App Development Experts

Unlock value by modernizing your existing apps and building innovative new products.

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App Platform

Build, run, secure, and manage all of your apps across any cloud with application modernization solutions and guidance from VMware.

11 Security Practices to Manage Container Lifecycle

Get recommended practices for DevSecOps teams that desire a more modern app methodology.

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Multi-Cloud & Anywhere Workspace

Empower your employees to be productive from anywhere, with secure, frictionless access to enterprise apps from any device. 

Deliver an Engaging Experience

Put employees first with device choice, flexibility, and seamless, consistent, high-quality experiences.

Secure Today’s Anywhere Workspace

Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.

Automate the Workspace

Manage to outcomes — not tasks — with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.

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Anywhere Workspace

Enable any employee to work from anywhere, anytime with seamless employee experiences.

Remote Work Is No Longer Optional

Shift from supporting remote work to becoming an anywhere organization.

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Multi-Cloud Security & Networking

With connected security that delivers full visibility and frictionless operations, your apps and data are more secure with VMware, in any environment.

Secure & Connect Workloads

Operationalize consistent security and networking across apps, users, and entities with transparency built into our tools.

Protect APIs — the New Endpoints

Increase app velocity and centrally manage, secure, connect, and govern your clusters no matter where they reside.

Be Future-Ready

Get built-in threat intelligence spanning users, endpoints and networks to evolve your protection in a dynamic landscape.

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Security & Networking

Deliver security and networking as a built-in distributed service across users, apps, devices, and workloads in any cloud.

Protect Your Multi-Cloud Environments

Discover the unique characteristics of malware and how to stay ahead of attacks.

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Trusted Advisors on Multi-Cloud Journey

Partners are trusted advisors to guide customers’ journeys to multi-cloud, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control.

Work with a VMware Partner

Partners deliver outcomes with their expertise and VMware technology, creating exceptional value for our mutual customers.

Become a Partner

Together with our partners, VMware is building the new multi-cloud ecosystem positioned to become essential to our customers.

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Partners

With thousands of partners worldwide, we are positioned to help customers scale their business, drive innovation and transform their customer experience.

Working Together with Partners for Customer Success

See how we work with a global partner to help companies prepare for multi-cloud.

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Apps Software VMware Horizon

Elevate the digital workspace experience with the efficient and secure delivery of virtual desktops and apps from on-premises to the cloud.

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Virtual Desktops and Apps Enable Anywhere, Anytime Access

VMware Horizon enables a digital workspace with the efficient delivery of virtual desktops and applications that equips workers anywhere, anytime, and on any device. With deep integration into the VMware technology ecosystem, the platform offers an agile cloud-ready foundation, modern best-in-class management, and end to end security that empowers today’s Anywhere Workspace.

Manage from the Cloud

Efficiently deploy, manage, monitor, and scale desktops and apps across private, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments using a cloud-based console and SaaS management services.

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Modernize Operations

Transform legacy infrastructure with integrated leading-edge technologies that automate the provisioning and management of virtual desktops and apps and deliver the personalization required by end-users.

MODERNIZING VDI FOR A NEW HORIZON

Build Resiliency

Adopt a scalable, cloud-based platform that offers the resiliency needed to meet change head-on with flexible deployment options across private and public clouds.

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Secure Data and Achieve Compliance

Ensure secure remote access to corporate resources from any device with NSX and intrinsic security built into the VMware infrastructure. Integration with Carbon Black boosts security using a zero-trust model.

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Enable Remote Work

Keep employees connected and productive anywhere they work and on any device with a consistent, personalized desktop environment.

PIVOT TO A DISTRIBUTED WORKFORCE

Improve ROI

Achieve cost savings and realize business value with more flexible and reliable access to resources.

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The sessions, experts, labs and experiences you love and more from the center of the multi-cloud universe.

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Redefining the Virtual Desktop & App Experience

Uniquely Integrated with VMware Technology

Integrate with VMware Cloud Foundation to deliver a consistent digital foundation and hyperconverged infrastructure ideal for on-premises or cloud deployments.

Optimal Desktop and App Delivery

Deliver secure, workstation-class performance, rich 2D and 3D graphics, and an immersive end-user experience with Blast Performance and Blast 3D.

Modern Management

Modernize management with the deployment of full-featured, personalized virtual desktops and apps by leveraging Instant Clone Technology, VMware App Volumes™, and VMware Dynamic Environment Manager.

Comprehensive Environment Monitoring

Monitor the health and performance of the infrastructure stack with vRealize for Horizon or more granular desktop metrics, root-cause and remediation with ControlUp.

Flexible Cloud Deployment Options

Deploy and manage desktops and apps across on-premises, hybrid or public cloud and deliver up-to-date infrastructure by leveraging automation and SaaS services from the Horizon Control Plane.

End-to-end Visibility with Workspace ONE Intelligence

Monitor, analyze, and set up alerts for virtual desktops and apps. Deliver basic and advanced use cases with metrics on utilization, reports on capacity, remediation workflow, and customizable dashboards.

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Guide to Agile Change Management

Read this guide from Brian Madden, EUC industry analyst and VMware resident expert, as he explains how businesses can be more agile when leveraging hybrid cloud with VMware Horizon.

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Modernize Your Legacy Citrix Environment

Discover how the Horizon is the desktop and app virtualization of the future and why it’s time to modernize today.

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The Business Value of VMware Horizon

Read this brief to examine how Horizon with SaaS services can provide value to your organization, and save you money along the way.

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Integrate VMware solutions to build a consistent digital foundation with products designed to work together, resulting in streamlined management and better performing secure desktops and applications.

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Horizon Standard Plus Subscription

Simple desktop delivery with basic cloud management services for single cloud deployment.

Windows VDI
Essential set of security and user experience features
Single cloud deployment on a on-premises private or public vSphere cloud
SaaS services that optimize and automate tasks in VDI environments

Horizon Enterprise Plus Subscription

Advanced desktop & app delivery with select cloud management services for a single cloud deployment.

Windows and Linux VDI and application delivery
Essential set of security and user experience features
vSAN entitlement
Single cloud deployment on a on-premises private or public vSphere cloud
SaaS services that optimize and automate tasks in VDI and app environments

Horizon Universal Subscription

Premium desktop and app delivery with full suite of cloud management services for multi-cloud deployments.

Windows and Linux VDI and application delivery
Advanced set of security and user experience features
vSAN entitlement
Flexbility to deploy on a on-premises private cloud and/or in the public cloud
SaaS services that optimize and automate tasks in VDI environments
SaaS services to deploy, manage, and monitor VDI and app environments across cloud

Horizon Apps Standard Subscription

Simple app delivery with basic cloud management services for on-premises or cloud deployment.

Windows and Linux virtual application delivery
Standard management features
Essential set of security and user experience features
Single cloud deployment on-premises private or in the public cloud
SaaS services that optimize and automate tasks in VDI environments

Horizon Apps Universal Subscription

Powerful app delivery with a full suite of cloud management services for hybrid cloud deployment.

Windows and Linux virtual application delivery
Advanced set of security and user experience features
Flexibility to deploy on-premises private and/or in the cloud
SaaS services that optimize and automate tasks in VDI environments
SaaS services to deploy, manage, and monitor VDI and app environments across clouds

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is VMware Horizon?

VMware Horizon is a modern platform for running and delivering virtual desktops and apps across the hybrid cloud. For administrators, this means desktop and app management can be simplified, automated and made more secure. For users, it provides a consistent experience across devices and locations.

What is VMware Horizon Client?

VMware Horizon Client is software that allows you to connect your VMware Horizon virtual desktop to a device of choice, giving you on-the-go access from any location. Clients are available for Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, Chrome and Android and may be downloaded from my.vmware.com.

How do you create VDI in VMware Horizon?

VMware Horizon allows you to set up and manage a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). This is achieved by creating and provisioning desktop pools for centralized management. For more information on setting up VDI using Horizon, see the Horizon Documentation Center.

How does VMware Horizon work?

VMware Horizon runs remote desktops and applications in the data center or the cloud and delivers them to employees as a managed service. It offers flexible deployment options across private and public clouds, such as Microsoft Azure, VMware Cloud™ on AWS, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. Read the Tech Zone article for more information.

Is VMware Horizon a VPN?

VMware Horizon is not a virtual private network (VPN). It uses a unified access gateway (UAG) to allow secure remote access to Horizon. It does support remote access to desktops and apps via a VPN, but it's generally not necessary to use a VPN with a UAG. For more information, read the blog post.

What are the VMware Horizon Control Plane Services?

The Horizon Control Plane simplifies and automates management with cloud services that connect entitlements and unify management across Horizon environments, on-premises and in the cloud. Click to learn more about each of the Horizon Control Plane Services.

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