

Employees come into the office and worked during a dedicated block of time. VMware’s Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure delivers on these goals.īefore we explore how Horizon delivers a modern desktop infrastructure, let’s review what the old way of working looked like vs. This new infrastructure should be easier to manage than a traditional desktop infrastructure and be more secure. They faced challenges with security, access, provisioning, and management of desktop resources.įor organizations to properly support their remote workforces, a modern desktop infrastructure is needed that allows for the delivery of desktops and apps with cloud-like economics and elasticity of scale. Although the remote/mobile workforce trend was well underway before COVID-19 and many organizations thought they were mature in that journey, the abrupt shift, en masse, to a largely remote workforce brought to light many weaknesses in organizations’ current infrastructure. In early 2020, many organizations were forced to rapidly adapt to a world where their employees worked remotely. Horizon 8 has now been released with some added features and improvements which this article does not address (though it does cover licensing updates at the end).

Note: I originally wrote this during Horizon 7 release, and it was published on Sterling's blog.
