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VMware has announced the new VMware Horizon Suite: the platform for workforce mobility. Core of the VMware’s End User Computing (EUC) vision it is based on this point:

  • Transform: Simplify desktops, diverse apps and data into centralized services
  • Broker: Manage & Secure centrally and broker services to your workforce by policy
  • Deliver: Empower your workforce with flexible access across devices, locations and connectivity

It’s a suite of products designed to handle applications, data, desktop and deliver them though different device in a controlled way:

Horizon-Suite

The suite will include different products:

  • VMware Horizon Workspace
  • VMware Horizon View 5.2 (previous was VMware View)
  • VMware Horizon Mirage 4.0
  • VMware Horizon Data (code name was project Octopus)

VMware Horizon View

The new version will include a lot of improvements in user experience:

  • Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics (also enables shared access to physical GPU hardware)
  • Support for Microsoft Lync 2013 with Rich Media Services
  • Support for Windows 8 based desktops & clients (client where already supported, but virtual desktops where not officially supported)
  • Streamlined access to View Desktops from Horizon Workspace
  • Easily connect to desktops from any device with HTML Access (project AppBlast)
  • Enhanced Experience for Touch Based Mobile Devices

VMware Horizon Mirage

Ex Wanova product (now part of VMware offer) is the complementary part of View for the physical environments.

View-Mirage

Could be an interesting solution for OS migration (also in-place upgrade and now supporting also Windows 8) and hardware refresh. Note also that it used a unified image mangement for physical and virtual desktops.

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