{"id":20391,"date":"2016-02-09T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=244632"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:30:49","slug":"vmware-broadens-its-horizon-7-and-horizon-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/vmware-broadens-its-horizon-7-and-horizon-air\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware broadens its Horizon 7 and Horizon Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/09\/VMWare-campus-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-233831\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/09\/VMWare-campus-logo-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"VMWare campus logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a>Cloud infrastructure vendor VMware has announced that VMware Horizon 7 and VMware Horizon will be simpler to set up, faster, easier to maintain and more flexible.<\/p>\n<p>Version 7 of Horizon promises new features that VMware describes under the headings of just in Time Delivery, Blast Extreme, application life cycle management, smart policies and Integration with VMware Workspace ONE.<\/p>\n<p>The new Just in Time Delivery option, a product of Instant Clone Technology (formerly Project Fargo) means managers can provision 2,000 desktops in under 20 minutes. Blast Extreme offers options for GPU off-load to increase scale and mobile network support. The new Application Lifecycle efficiencies promise to cut storage and operational costs by up to 70% and slash the time needed for managing images by up to 95%. Smart Policies and integration with VMware Workspace ONE will both improve management of internal resources.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile VMware\u2019s Horizon Air has a hybrid-mode that will pave the way for a simple out of the box set-up, the vendor says. Having achieved that, users can create and scale desktops faster, with new Instant Clone technology integrated with VMware\u2019s App Volumes and User Environment Management technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Another major advantage, according to VMware, is greater hybrid cloud flexibility. In practical terms this will mean that applications and desktop workloads can be moved back and forth from on-premises data centres to the cloud more effectively. The process will be managed from a consistent Cloud Control Plane and will support the use of the cloud as a primary system for everyday work, or as a secondary use case for desktop bursting or disaster recovery.<\/p>\n<p>VMware Horizon 7 and VMware Horizon Air with Hybrid-mode are expected to be generally available before March 2016. VMware Horizon 7 pricing starts at $250 per user for on-premises perpetual licenses. VMware Horizon Air Hybrid-mode cloud subscription pricing starts at $16 per user per month for named users and $26 per user per month for concurrent connections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;VMware Horizon Air will provide our team with the opportunity to scale desktops on an as needed basis with access to VMware&#8217;s public cloud in both Europe and the United States,&#8221; said user Jason Bullock, executive director of IT global infrastructure and support at BDP International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud infrastructure vendor VMware has announced that VMware Horizon 7 and VMware Horizon will be simpler to set up, faster, easier to maintain and more flexible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2011,183,1976,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horizon","category-hybrid-cloud","category-news-analysis","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20392,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions\/20392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}