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Horizon Cloud Service Valuable Features

SivaKuppala - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Wipro Limited

Horizon Cloud Service provides deployment flexibility across multiple clouds with a scalable architecture that easily scales virtual desktops and applications up or down based on demand. 

It includes centralized cloud-based management through a single console that reduces administrative overhead, disaster recovery, and high availability capabilities. It supports hybrid or multi-cloud environments and integrates with VMware security solutions for enhanced protection.

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reviewer1970973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtual Desktop and Applications Offerings Global Offering Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
The main benefit of Horizon Cloud Service is that it is cloud-based, allowing our organization to leverage the service without having to manage all infrastructure directly. This offers significant flexibility and efficiency. Additionally, Horizon Cloud Service has a robust protocol, making app management straightforward. The scalability of Horizon Cloud Service is also excellent, and its stability is strong for our use cases. View full review »
JM
Cloud Engineer at Sony Pictures Entertainment

The product allows a VPN connection, adding extra value to its features.

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Vaisakh Natesh M - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Senior Specialist

The product’s on-premise version has the ability to create an image of any updates or changes in the system. We can upload that particular image in the virtual desktop infrastructure’s backend. It automatically updates the whole machine.

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reviewer2106132 - PeerSpot reviewer
VDI Consultant at a construction company with 1-10 employees

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that even though the product is complex, it is very stable. After the buyout of VMware by Broadcom, all of VMware's VDI stacks have been completely split out from the cloud, which defeats a lot of the stuff my company is currently trying to do. The tool remains pretty stable.

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Vaisakh Natesh M - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Senior Specialist

VMware Horizon Cloud is easy to use and the full development cloud is very good. The main features of VMware are included. It's a cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure software that allows you to permit the virtual desktops and applications to any device from the single unified management control. These are managed from the dedicated remote session desktop.

It is a multiple cloud deployment that provides flexibility. You can choose cloud capacity management by VMware or infrastructure management with Microsoft Azure.

Advanced user configuration management through dynamic environment management is available. There are many self-serve options.

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ManuelIglesias - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Open group

The interface is much easier to use compared to Microsoft and other VDI vendors that are well known on the market. I like VMware so much more than the others. With Horizon Cloud, you don't need to spend a lot of money upfront to buy the infrastructure. You can use it the on the cloud, so it lowers the barriers to entry. It's easier to test it and get started. Some clients stay in the cloud, but others prefer to go on-premise. It depends on the nature of the client.

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CS
NOC Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I honestly liked the application itself because it was just like using a desktop. You could copy and paste, inside and outside, and you could use multiple monitors. You could access it anytime, anywhere, no matter whether you were in the office or out of the office. I could leave the office, go somewhere, go back in, and everything would be there. I could just leave it up and running. I absolutely love this feature in VMware Horizon Cloud.

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reviewer2052039 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Specialist System Management at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature of VMware Horizon Cloud is all of its capabilities together.

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reviewer1505721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. VMware Technical Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Its advanced management features are the most valuable, especially power management. One of the really important things was to be able to have power management in a consumption world. This means that unlike a Microsoft environment, you could actually turn off virtual desktops or have them start up and shut down. If you're consuming resources in the public cloud, you want to be able to do that because when you're not using those, such as at the weekend, you want to be able to turn them off. So, the advanced options for managing the BDIs are very important.

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reviewer1672230 - PeerSpot reviewer
End User Compute Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The most valuable feature of VMware Horizon Cloud is the ability to manage a great number of desktops at once and the remote access for users that are working from outside of the office or from different offices in the country.

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Buyer's Guide
Horizon Cloud Service
July 2025
Learn what your peers think about Horizon Cloud Service. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
861,524 professionals have used our research since 2012.