VMware Horizon Air

VMware Horizon Air (VMware Horizon Air Cloud-Hosted Desktops and Apps) is service of control of virtual PCs and applications from a cloud. Including - a virtual environment in a public cloud.

2016

VMware Horizon Air makes available to IBM Cloud

On July 14, 2016 the IBM corporation and VMware company announced expansion of strategic partnership. Clients of VMware Horizon Air will get access to cloud virtualization of desktop computers and applications in the environment of IBM Cloud.

VMware Horizon Air services will help to install full-fledged desktops of Windows or the replicated applications on computers, notebooks, tablets and smartphones. Work of VMware Horizon Air in IBM Cloud will provide to users access to crucial applications and data from any device, from any place at any time^[1].

With new partnership IBM hopes to move millions of workloads of VMware, (2016) to the clouds

Earlier in 2016 partners announced partnership which, according to statements of the companies, will help the enterprises to use more effectively resources and to move the operating workloads from local software-defined DPCs to "cloud" and back.

We are going to develop further our partnership with IBM company as are interested in that customers could work with corporate applications and data in a safe digital medium. Our clients appreciate a wide choice and the innovative solutions, but, at the same time, aim to save the existing investments into IT. Use of VMware Horizon Air answers IBM Cloud to these requests, combining possibilities of "cloud" of the corporate level and the services developed by two authoritative companies. Sanjay Punen, executive vice president and general manager on computing environments of end users, head of international marketing and communications of VMware

IBM cooperates with VMware more than ten years, and today's start is continuation of already existing relationship, it is directed to that to the enterprises was more simply and quicker to implement cloud computing. Transition to "cloud" is necessary for each company to save the competitiveness. Strategic partnership for support of VMware Horizon Air on IBM Cloud is an example of how IBM and VMware considerably facilitate to customers this process. Robert Le Blanc, senior vice president of IBM Cloud

Among additional opportunities for customers of VMware Horizon Air on IBM Cloud:

• cloud infrastructure of the corporate level with support of fast deployment and scaling;
• and gradually to reach the additional scope and scale allowing the companies to begin to use advantages of "cloud" at the local level the global level with observance of all regulatory requirements;
• high performance of IBM network and connection to global data processing centers;
• flexible price monthly subscription fee for cloud virtualization of desktop computers and applications.

It is expected that VMware Horizon Air will be available on IBM Cloud in the third quarter 2016.

Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode

On February 19, 2016 the VMware company announced Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode service -^[2] created on the basis of Project Enzo intended for the unified management of virtual desktops from the single console both in own infrastructure of the enterprise, and in a cloud environment^[2].

Representation of interaction in Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode (2016)

At the heart of VMware Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode components:

• Cloud Control Plane is a layer of management on the party of a public cloud of VMware vCloud Air, it allows administrators to manage the virtual desktops performed on servers of the enterprise.

• Horizon Node technology is the means placed within the data-center, they execute commands from a control panel for process management, delivery of desktops to users and management of workflows.

Representation of Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode (2016)

The solution is generally focused on management of the hyper convergent environment created on platforms of hardware and software systems from partners of VMware. Hybrid-Mode will support all opportunities of VMware Horizon 7 - Instant Clone Technology and App Volumes 3.0.

Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode will become available to users in March, 2016.

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