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Horizon 8 Primary Use Case

MB
Owner at CoBSS

My customers most likely use Horizon 8 for remote desktop, which means making sure that people can access system resources from anywhere on a secure platform, even from a non-secure, or non-company device.

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Muhammad JunaidJawed - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. VDI Engineer at Afiniti.com

I have been using Horizon for two years. It provides my DevOps team access to PAM and server through the provider.

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IT Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution to provide VDI to our partners. They connect to the VDI and consume our on-premise resources.

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Horizon 8
July 2025
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RashidAnwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Lead at Tetra Pak

I use the solution in my company for the area of VDI, consisting of multiple applications and allowing users the flexibility to use the applications on mobile devices.

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ToniLindberg - PeerSpot reviewer
senior consultant at Virtual Consultants Sverige AB

I often use the solution for remote day-to-day work to bring in consultants. We use the Gateway feature, which is a form of security server. We have one port to connect things. It simplifies things.

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Marc Gaethofs - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT manager at Thys Bouwprojecten

With a user base of around four thousand individuals, maintaining a vigilant stance on security is essential. Regular scrutiny of each endpoint is necessary to prevent any potential threats to our data center, such as infections, compromises, or hacks. The overarching goal is to maintain a tight grip on our data and keep it secure within our data center.

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Tim  Abboud - PeerSpot reviewer
Key Account Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We implement VMware Horizon View for clients who want to replace physical site clients with a virtual desktop infrastructure solution, either to enhance geographical performance and reduce site clients or to add a security layer to their desktop environment.

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Andrea Andrea - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE.iT SA

Our current use of the solution involves the two specific projects in Arreaspace Kiasat, which involves catering to both the needs of the client and the server's functionalities with a Linux based approach.

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Carlos Ortiz - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

I use VMware Horizon as a VDI software since I use a workstation where access is needed for the virtual desktop.

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Roshan Dias - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at Informatics (Private) Limited

My company had deployed the solution for one of our customers earlier, and they still use it to date with around 6,000 users and 2,000 virtual desktops.

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Vidyasagar Guntupalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The VDI access in my private cloud involves encapsulation in VMware Horizon. It also reduces the network traffic bandwidth if you're accessing Linux virtual machines using the native clients since it uses a lot of bandwidth.

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Premek Vala - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Our primary use case for VMware Horizon is facilitating remote access to our compute clusters for our developers. VMs predominantly run on Linux systems, specifically utilizing RHEL 8. The developers connect from various locations in Europe.

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reviewer2310093 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use the solution for application delivery and data security for external people.

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Hans Kraaijeveld - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at PQR

It is a method of providing a user with access to centralized resources in the form of either a full desktop session or a hosted application, whether it is Windows or Linux.

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Syed Abid  - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra

In my previous project, we used Horizon to connect three remote offices with the main headquarters for centralized business applications.

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Mohd Abdul Aziz Shah Sulaiman - PeerSpot reviewer
Endpoint & Digital Workplace Management at Telekom Malaysia

We are currently using the solution to engage with our procurement team in a secure manner. If someone uploads tenders using their PC, they can copy the tender to other devices. Using the solution helps restrict access to users. The users' actions are also recorded in the solution.

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Bart Brakel - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Innovisie

We put our client-server applications on Horizon.

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Yaw Ofori-Adjei - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Fairgreen Limited

We use the solution for the virtual desktop environment. Our customers are mostly from the financial sector. 

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RH
System Administrator Senior at KV Zürich Business School

I work in a public school where some teachers and staff work from home. We use the product in the home office. 

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HA
General Manager Technical at Techaccess Pakistan

The use cases mainly depend on our client's needs and requirements. One of the reasons is the high cost of hardware and associated maintenance and time it requires. When you have 300-600 systems, managing maintenance tickets and replacements becomes a significant challenge.

With a stable VDI in place, clients/end users experience fewer issues. A large number of users can easily have required changes in configurations across the entire stack on the back end without disruption to their work. VMware Horizon offers additional features in VDI that are not possible with localized systems or laptops. We are currently utilizing it partly with labs involving DNA analysis and with various forensic tools. However, its primary use case is for office environments.

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VT
Lead Converged Infrastructure Virtualization Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using VMware Horizon View for R&D. We use it like a machine that we need 24/7 at any cost. It should be accessible from anywhere, whether on an office premise or over the internet. But there are a few locations such as in the case of contractors, where we are not allowed to provide our machine. Here, we provide VDI infrastructure to them. They then connect the VDI and work. We integrate their system with Microsoft's Remote Desktop Service. Further, we tag the RDS with the solution. It acts as a connecting bridge between Microsoft hardware and the remote server.

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Rob Moore - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Saint Tammany Parish Hospital

Our primary use case for the solution is to give end users clone desktops, and they can use their applications. So instead of providing a desktop, we give them a computer with just a client, and everything is loaded in that VDI session and not directly on that workstation. We deploy the solution on-premises.

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Aleksei Grishutin - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We use it in our call center, in the warehouse where we prepare products for stores, and in the warehouse.

We have 1,000 users in my organization. It's deployed on-premises. We stopped updating it in 2013 and 2017 because we used Windows 7. 

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reviewer1502289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network administrator at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are using it to provide our users with a personalized desktop experience when they're working remotely, especially during the pandemic.

We are using its latest version. We usually deploy it on-prem, but I know that there is a possibility to put it on the cloud.

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AB
Information Technology Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our organization is a national cybersecurity agency in Qatar, and we need virtual machines that automatically erase once the user logs out. The solution also enables access to our organization's secured environment through the Internet. For instance, you can be anywhere in the world and still access the on-premises infrastructure securely. 

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RuiAlves - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Proindustrial, Lda.

The use case is remote access to VMs. It allows us to remote access the VMs and our servers.

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Joshua Kurian - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

My company uses VMware Horizon View for educational institutions and for the student lists maintained. My company also uses the solution in the healthcare industry.

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Mihai Dinca - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Consultant at Eta2u

We use it to gain access to our organization's applications.

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AO
Technical architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use VMware Horizon to digitalize environments. 

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Frieda Cheng - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Amidas Hong Kong Limited

The solution is used for remote access and copying.

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Sandor Nilsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Leader and IT Transition Manager at Data Communication & Software i Grondal Aktiebolag

In our case, it's for our own internal use. Let's say I am at home, and there's an issue with our customer. Something has happened. I can connect using Secureline and log on to this virtual desktop, accessing the system from there. So it's only for internal use.

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AT
Manager, IT at The School of Research Science

Our primary use case for this solution is the virtual desktop infrastructure.

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DanielBass - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Strategy Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use Horizon View to provide virtual desktops for internal use. There are about a thousand users. 

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David Pierce - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect / Data Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Horizon is used to create virtual desktops. It's helpful for people who want to transition from large desktops and laptops to more virtual desktops. More people are working remotely, and that freaks out IT departments when they can't get access to an employee's desktop. We are seeing a lot of demand for virtual desktops for remote working.

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Frieda Cheng - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Amidas Hong Kong Limited

VMware Horizon 7 is used for remote access to allow the users to work from home.

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VinayKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Data Centre at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We use this solution for our virtual desktop infrastructure where the user's desktops are running the data center using Horizon. With the increase in the number of people working from home, we wanted a solution like Horizon. We are customers and I'm a resident consultant. 

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CC
Systems Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees

We use this solution for delivering virtual desktops and applications.

Currently, we are using version 2006 which has an older model of provisioning and there are some compatibility issues that we are going to solve in the coming months. The latest version is 2103. However, there is not much difference between 2006 and 2103 it is almost the same.

The small differences are in adjunct functionality and regarding the transference relationship between domains. 

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Justine Sabordo - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at shellsoft

VMware Horizon is focused on VDI and application delivery. Organizations use VMware Horizon to deliver third-party applications to their end users. This is facilitated by Horizon's VDI solution, which provides the necessary infrastructure and management capabilities.

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DN
Managing Director at WISE VARY

My use case is to try from the customer experience because right now, we work from home and anywhere. So, and also the power consumption of the desktop and IT security are concerns. 

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LA
Senior Executive Manager - Data Center Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using VMware Horizon View in two ways - for both virtual disk infrastructure (VDI) and application virtualization. 

The primary use case is for individuals external to our company to connect and access internal resources. This is done by publishing a virtual desktop point to allow access.

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HW
Research Engineer

Our company uses the solution as a virtual desktop for clients at universities and banks. One customer has more than 200 users who log in from anywhere. 

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Gurpreet_Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud transformation & migration manager at Accenture company

The solution is useful for anyone working from home. It enables connection to office workstations and open corporate portals. We can access all files and folders, and collaborate with other team members. I'm a company manager. 

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reviewer1665633 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it to provide virtual client desktops for remote users or data center users. It's basically for people to work from home or for a call center.

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OA
Senior Chief Engineer at ministry of electricity

We used this solution for a complaint management and support system. The project was a combination of Horizon 7, VMware, Oracle Database, Apex, and GlassFish. Most of them were deployed on Linux or Windows, and we implemented a center to manage the VMware cluster.

The main software, based on Oracle Database, gave the operator a terminal and different kinds of forms for entering the data that they got from the customers. The virtual machines were based on Horizon 7. We completed this project in 2018, and it is still working.

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Aqib Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
ITSM Administrator & Analyst at Ministry of Interior

We use the solution for deployed applications.

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Ricardo Franco Mahecha - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Consultant at V2S Corporation

I use VMware Horizon for a variety of workforce, both internal and external.

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Abbasi Poonawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Enterprise Architect at Alinma Bank

Horizon basically protects you're VMware and your Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). BYOD connecting to your network and these can be secured using VMware Horizon.

With COVID there is a very big impact. There is a hybrid kind of workforce model now. People will be able to connect using their own devices. If it is BYOD case, the number of assets is going to increase. It will almost double the number of the secured assets out there. This means that as the asset size grows, there's a lot of traffic. If you talk about the Horizon it is Zero Trust Architecture plus Micro-segmentation. It has to level both into one platform.

You then need to physically test that your endpoints are all secured so that there is no way for somebody connecting from their own device or laptop to accessing the network with any kind of malicious code. You're protected.

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Natnael Aklilu - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at IWM Network Solutions

Our customers are using this product on simple data and to access some applications. We are customers of VMware Horizon View. 

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Tonatiuh Torres Zamorano - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Manager at ICSI

VMware Horizon View is used for virtualization. 

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Sam Ip - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Director at SILVER CUBE GROUP

We use VMware Horizon 7 for my company's internal systems, our clients' hosting, and public services.

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

We essentially use it to enable remote workers.

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reviewer1655805 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees

We are using VMware Horizon View for workstation replacement. We are mostly still in the development stage.

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reviewer1600827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation & Instrumentation Expert at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution to maintain the existing ESXi that we have.

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it_user1580769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We're a payroll company and understandably security is pretty important for us. When a user takes a laptop home you have to manage encryption in case they lose it. With everything in our data center, there's no risk of lost data because everything is run in the VDI. That's our primary use case for this product. I'm a systems engineer and we are customers of VMware Horizon View.

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HB
ENGINEER IT at SYAC

We primarily use the solution for developer access within the company.

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reviewer1455177 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use this solution for virtual desktop infrastructure and remote desktop connections on client sites with 18 clients or end-user devices.

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reviewer1423488 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

I am a system engineer and this is one of the products that I assist people with by providing support.

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Fredrik Hallgarde - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager at Real Time Services AB

We use VMware Horizon View for remote accessibility of all the legacy apps.

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AhmedShalaby - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Pre Sales Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is a powerful application platform for virtual isolation. 

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AJ
System engineer at DCA

Horizon View is primarily used to consolidate networks against potential threats from outside.

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reviewer1738062 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

VMware Horizon 7 virtualizes workloads and applications.

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MarcMermuys - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT System Administrator at College of Europe

We use this solution for virtual servers and virtual desktops. Our whole environment is on VMware combined with Nutanix.

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reviewer1332132 - PeerSpot reviewer
AGM at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients. I am a solution engineer and I work on end-user virtualization and related infrastructure solutions. I with VMware, Citrix, and Nutanix.

This solution is used for managing end-user workstations, or settings related to applications or Windows, as well as other things. For example, it can put policies in place for applications or the operating system.

This is not a product that I work with regularly.

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reviewer1672974 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for data center consolidation and the infrastructure of servers.

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reviewer1697340 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team leader Modern Workplace, Senior Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are providers and we provide solutions to our clients.

We are using it for Virtual Desktop, Application Virtualization, Graphics, AutoCAD Virtualization, Graphics Virtualization, Workstation, and Graphic Power.

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SK
Vmware Administrator at Intertech

I have integrated this solution for educational institutions to help deploy applications to students and staff. I have also integrated this solution for a financial organization. This solution is deployed on-premises. 

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reviewer1245039 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Most of the colleges are using Chromebooks but what I'm trying to develop is some virtual machines that have a common operating system to deliver to the student. They would be a virtual machine, similar to a Chromebook. This is what I am trying to develop.

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reviewer1696335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I am using VMware Horizon View for desktops.

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Tonatiuh Torres Zamorano - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Manager at ICSI

Within my company, there are 50 employees using this solution.

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MS
Systems Architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

We use this solution for remote users around the country.

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reviewer1413429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The company I worked for were partners of VMware Horizon View. I worked as a system engineer.

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reviewer1381467 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We deploy the solution for our clients.

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AT
Manager, IT at The School of Research Science

This solution provides centralized management with a digital platform.

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PM
Storage Specialist at Informatics Services Corporation

Use as a test center for medical students was the primary purpose of the launch. The number of users seen included was about two hundred. The model was kiosk-mode. Each time, after the end of the virtual machine exam, it was presented. It had to change on the user.

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DR
Director of IT at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC

We were spread across several offices and with the main production software tool and the weak WAN infrastructure, it was impossible to share data reliably. It seemed the only solution was to centralize the data and make it so the people using the data - the workers - could be anywhere. With past experiences in server virtualization, I investigated VMware View. It was the missing key that made this all work.

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reviewer2096580 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution for remote desktops for a small number of users, but we do not use Citrix. Therefore, Horizon View is sufficient for us to publish applications or desktops for small services.

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reviewer1680246 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use VMware Horizon View to access our virtual application.

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reviewer1643313 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICS Cybersecurity Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The solution is primarily used to manage VMs. 

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reviewer1613397 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are selling this solution, but my position is in IT. I provide technical support to our clients.

Our customers use this solution for virtualization.

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reviewer1613397 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are continuing to use Horizon 8 for remote work. Our company data, along with customer data, is stored in the private data center. Horizon is used for accessing the data center and data.

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BL
System Engineer at Tarch

We use VMware Horizon View for its remote access feature.

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Buyer's Guide
Horizon 8
July 2025
Learn what your peers think about Horizon 8. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
861,803 professionals have used our research since 2012.