Virtual Desktop and Applications Offerings Global Offering Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Reseller
Top 10
Apr 16, 2025
Our primary use case focuses on virtual desktop and application hosting. This is spread across different industries. We have a large number of employees, and we are one of the largest GSIs globally, managing many virtual seats across various sectors, including healthcare, aerospace and defense, manufacturing, and automotive.
I use Horizon Cloud Service as a cloud-based virtual desktop and application platform. The primary use cases include supporting multiple clouds for redundancy, catering to customers who need workloads on multiple clouds like Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Amazon. Organizations seeking a multi-cloud strategy utilize this solution.
I'm using VMware Horizon Cloud for end-user computing solutions from the VMware Cloud and Microsoft Azure for supporting the user's level. We are publishing new images from the backend to the user support team through vSphere and this is where we are monitoring all the VDAs. Sometimes we will receive a CPU usage alert and we are monitoring through the vSphere client for all the Las Vegas VDA and Reno VDA. We then are supporting these alerts.
Sr. VMware Technical Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Mar 8, 2021
The use cases were around being able to have virtual desktops that were deployable to the public cloud, specifically where customers had a burst type of environment, which means that they needed more virtual desktops in a particular timeframe. It might be at tax time for accountants. Another use case was being able to take an on-prem interface and bring it into the cloud so that a customer is able to have all of the goods. They could have their management infrastructure, deployment, and all those things. This was done so that the technical teams would have one less thing to manage and would be able to deploy across clouds, whatever that cloud is. It is a SaaS tool, and the target can be on-prem or a cloud, such as Azure, VMware, or AWS. The great thing about it is that you can deploy it anywhere. We are using its latest version and the previous version.
NOC Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Oct 19, 2020
We don't internally use it, but we have clients who use it. I have used it myself in my prior job. We were not using the shared version where you share resources. We had dedicated resources for each desktop, which was one of the reasons why it was a little bit more expensive. This was one of the things I wanted to change before I left because you had people with 8 gigabytes of RAM and two processors assigned to them, but they were just doing emails. Every once in a while, they would use full resources while doing complex Excel tasks or something like that. They needed these resources all the time because whenever they didn't have them, the machine would freeze upon them for a little while and then start working, but that is not conducive to being efficient. The only solution was to give them more processing and memory. Unfortunately, that drives up costs because there is a cost associated with every processor and RAM you use. That's really the driving cost of it. I started getting the shared version where it would fluctuate with what is needed from a pool. In other words, if you had a pool of 120 gigabytes, it would fluctuate depending on the users' needs. If you put 40 users on 128 gigabytes, it is going to be cheaper than giving 40 users 8 gigabytes, which is 320 gigabytes. You cut your costs with that.
The VMware Horizon Cloud Service delivers feature-rich virtual desktops and applications using a purpose-built cloud platform that is scalable across multiple deployment options, including fully managed infrastructure from VMware, public cloud infrastructure from Microsoft Azure, or on-premises hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). The service supports a cloud-scale architecture that makes it easy to deliver virtualized Windows desktops and applications to any device, anytime. And, with a...
Our primary use case focuses on virtual desktop and application hosting. This is spread across different industries. We have a large number of employees, and we are one of the largest GSIs globally, managing many virtual seats across various sectors, including healthcare, aerospace and defense, manufacturing, and automotive.
I use Horizon Cloud Service as a cloud-based virtual desktop and application platform. The primary use cases include supporting multiple clouds for redundancy, catering to customers who need workloads on multiple clouds like Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Amazon. Organizations seeking a multi-cloud strategy utilize this solution.
I use VMware Horizon Cloud in my company as a tool for VDI in Colo's hybrid workspace platform.
We use the product to automatically create an on-cloud machine for the end-users to work on daily activities.
We use VMware Horizon Cloud for our virtual desktop infrastructure. It provides security for the platform at the entry point of the environment.
We use VMware Horizon Cloud for virtual machines where everyone can log in and do their work in a safe environment.
I'm using VMware Horizon Cloud for end-user computing solutions from the VMware Cloud and Microsoft Azure for supporting the user's level. We are publishing new images from the backend to the user support team through vSphere and this is where we are monitoring all the VDAs. Sometimes we will receive a CPU usage alert and we are monitoring through the vSphere client for all the Las Vegas VDA and Reno VDA. We then are supporting these alerts.
We use VMware Horizon Cloud to allow our employees to work remotely.
The use cases were around being able to have virtual desktops that were deployable to the public cloud, specifically where customers had a burst type of environment, which means that they needed more virtual desktops in a particular timeframe. It might be at tax time for accountants. Another use case was being able to take an on-prem interface and bring it into the cloud so that a customer is able to have all of the goods. They could have their management infrastructure, deployment, and all those things. This was done so that the technical teams would have one less thing to manage and would be able to deploy across clouds, whatever that cloud is. It is a SaaS tool, and the target can be on-prem or a cloud, such as Azure, VMware, or AWS. The great thing about it is that you can deploy it anywhere. We are using its latest version and the previous version.
We don't internally use it, but we have clients who use it. I have used it myself in my prior job. We were not using the shared version where you share resources. We had dedicated resources for each desktop, which was one of the reasons why it was a little bit more expensive. This was one of the things I wanted to change before I left because you had people with 8 gigabytes of RAM and two processors assigned to them, but they were just doing emails. Every once in a while, they would use full resources while doing complex Excel tasks or something like that. They needed these resources all the time because whenever they didn't have them, the machine would freeze upon them for a little while and then start working, but that is not conducive to being efficient. The only solution was to give them more processing and memory. Unfortunately, that drives up costs because there is a cost associated with every processor and RAM you use. That's really the driving cost of it. I started getting the shared version where it would fluctuate with what is needed from a pool. In other words, if you had a pool of 120 gigabytes, it would fluctuate depending on the users' needs. If you put 40 users on 128 gigabytes, it is going to be cheaper than giving 40 users 8 gigabytes, which is 320 gigabytes. You cut your costs with that.