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VMware Horizon View:
What is it?
VMware Horizon View is freedom for the end user and control for IT.
VMware Horizon View is a virtual desktop solution based on virtual machines running on a VMware vSphere hypervisor, managed with vCenter from your centralized datacenter. Users can access their virtual desktops over the Internet, WAN, or LAN, from a variety of devices, while the vShield suite keeps both your data and system secure.
All types of applications function well within a Horizon View virtual desktop solution:
- Native applications
- ThinApp virtual applications
- Remote applications
- XenApp applications
Simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control with VMware Horizon View. Deliver a personalized high fidelity experience for end-users across sessions and devices. Enable higher availability and agility of desktop services unmatched by traditional PCs while reducing the total cost of desktop ownership up to 50%. End-users can enjoy new levels of productivity and the freedom to access desktops from more devices and locations while giving IT greater policy control.
Deliver a Better Desktop Experience
Unlike traditional PCs, View desktops are not tied to the physical computer. Instead, they reside in your cloud and end-users can access their View desktop when needed. VMware Horizon View with PCoIP delivers the richest, most flexible and adaptive experience for end-users around the world in a variety of network conditions. Business happens everywhere and whether online or offline, basic or 3D applications, LAN or WAN, VMware Horizon View delivers maximum workplace productivity.
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Comparison table for Business Process Desktop Solution
VMware Horizon View offers market leading pre-validated end-to-end solutions that solve today’s most common business use cases. Business Process Desktop delivers centralized desktop management while providing the flexibility and reach required in an outsourcing or offshoring deployment.
- Feature
- VMware Horizon View BPD
- Citrix XenDesktop
- Ease of deployment
- Pre-tested and pre-validated components cut installation times and costs
- Multiple third-party components
- Management Simplicity
- View Manager gives you a single panel for easy management
- Multiple wizards, consoles and directors
- Image management & storage optimization for enterprise deployment
- View Composer lowers costs, optimizes storage usage and delivers fast provisioning
- Provisioning services difficult and costly to deploy
- Compliance
- vCenter Configuration Manager delivers templates that help deployments meet legal requirements
- None
- Backup and Restore
- Tested and validated third party solutions ensure data availability
- Third-party solutions (un-validated)
- Cost
- VMware solutions proven to cost less than Citrix
- Expensive servers, Storage and Software Licensing Costs
Why VMware Horizon View™ beats Citrix at Business Process Outsourcing and Offshoring
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Why VMware Horizon View™ beats Citrix at Business Process Outsourcing and Offshoring
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Business process outsourcing (BPO) is expanding globally as modern businesses continue to seek increased productivity and returns, while minimizing expenses.
Both buyers and providers in BPO find that getting the best results can be challenging, as traditional branch office IT environments are often locally managed. While this may have worked well in the past, it often goes against current goals. Managing local resources can be time consuming and expensive, while local data repositories are a major security concern. In addition, many BPO users find it difficult to access information across the WAN, which damages productivity and adds to growing management costs.
But VMware has the answer—a solution that reshapes how data is managed across technology platforms, letting both BPO buyers and providers remain competitive while achieving their business objectives.
VMware Horizon View offers proven, reliable architectures to set up and manage virtual desktop infrastructures from a central location, while enabling unparalleled access to secure information across both the LAN and WAN. VMware’s Business Process Desktop offers automated, efficient processes that lower TCO by as much as 50%. This validated solutions architecture features vShield to secure your data, while vSphere ensures end-user accessibility and productivity.
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Enhance Usability
Take the Pain out of Management
Enable Workforce Mobility
Business Process Desktop
VMware Mobile Secure Workplace
Better Branch Office Desktop
AlwaysOn™ Point of Care
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VMware Horizon View—more secure and easier to manage
Leverage deep vSphere integration
Superior End User Experience. Extended IT Control
Because VMware Horizon View is cost competitive, it provides operational and capital savings that have a greater cumulative impact compared to competing solutions—so your payback period starts sooner.
Better enforced data security, based on centralized VMware management, enable VDI security, and simplicity, at scale. Empower users, enable IT control, and save money—securely.
Build your desktop virtualization platform with Horizon View on vSphere for industry leading high availability, business continuity, fault tolerance, reliability—and security.
Give your users the mobility they need, on the devices they choose, with faster, simpler and secure management.
Including Horizon View, Horizon Workspace and Horizon Mirage, VMware Horizon Suite delivers proven results, simplifies management, protects your organization’s data, and secures access to applications—because it’s designed for workforce mobility.
VMware Horizon Mirage offers unique, image layering technology that intelligently manages windows environments on desktops, making desktop management simpler and easier—taking the pain out of migrations while also delivering exceptional desktop backup and recovery.
Only VMware offers a complete pre-validated end-to-end reference architecture for business process outsourcing and offshoring. Citrix does not have dedicated solution offerings and deploying a Citrix solution would require a significant amount of time, resources and third party involvement.
See how VMware Horizon View and VMware vSphere give you secure desktop and application access across devices and locations.
Find out why more organizations with branch offices are relying on VMware Horizon View for desktop security, centralized management and ease of deployment. See how this pre-tested and fully validated solution beats Citrix hands-down.
Discover the benefits of a secure, robust and stable EMHR environment based on VMware’s pre-tested and validated AlwaysOn™ Point of Care solution—a virtualized patient care environment that offers compliance, data security, fast authentication and caregiver mobility.
Resources
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SolutionTrack:
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Information Guide:
The Business Case for Desktop Virtualization -
Spiceworks Market Insights Report:
Trends around Desktop Virtualization for Small and Mid-sized Organizations (April 2012) -
EMA™ White Paper:
SHVD (Server Hosted Virtual Desktops) Infrastructure Costs: VMware View 4 vs.Citrix XenDesktop 4. May 2010. -
IDC White Paper:
Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View. May 2011.
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Foley & Lardner LLP Case Study:
See why one customer chose VMware View as their VDI solution - Zero client support better than everyone else's
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IDC Insights:
Desktop Virtualization in State and Local Governments: Saving Money Without Sacrificing Citizen Service - VMware Security Solution Architecture for VDI
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Datasheet:
VMware Horizon View Vs. Microsoft RDS 2012
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White Paper:
Why choose vSphere for VDI over Hyper-V and XenServer -
Best Practices:
Antivirus Practices for VMware® View™ 5 -
SolutionTrack:
Bringing BCA to Your Cloud
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Datasheet:
VMware Horizon View vs. Citrix XenDesktop -
SolutionTrack:
Desktop Virtualization -
VMware View vs. Citrix XenDesktop:
Preparing an Image for Deployment -
VMware View vs. Citrix XenDesktop:
Creating a Storage-Reduced Pool and Entitling Users -
VMware View vs. Citrix XenDesktop:
Adding and Removing a Virtual Desktop from a Desktop Pool -
VMware View vs. Citrix XenDesktop:
Deleting a Desktop Pool -
Principled Technologies Test Report:
Desktop virtualization with VMware View 5 compared to Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 (Feb, 2012) -
Tolly Test Report:
Virtual Desktop Implementation and Maintenance: VMware View 4.6 Premier vs. Citrix XenDesktop Platinum -
Spiceworks Market Insights Report:
Trends around Desktop Virtualization for Small and Mid-sized Organizations (April 2012)
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Overview:
Horizon Branch Office Desktop -
Validated Design Guide:
Business Process Desktop -
ESG Whitepaper:
VMware View Business Process Desktop Improving Productivity While Cutting Costs -
Customer Case Study:
VMware Horizon View and Amway -
Customer Case Study:
SouthWest Financial Credit Union
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Overview:
Horizon Mobile Secure Workplace -
Solution Brief:
The Mobile Secure Desktop -
MSW Design Guide:
Mobile Secure Desktop -
Whitepaper:
VMware BYOD Opportunity -
Whitepaper:
The VMware View Mobile Secure Desktop -
Customer Case Study:
Seattle University