By Joseph Evans, Product Marketing Manager, Horizon Air
As 2015 winds down, people across the globe are getting ready to take well-deserved vacations. While I hope the most important thing they are worrying about is how to get Star Wars tickets, many will undoubtedly have a last-minute issue pop up at work. Last year, approximately 100 million Americans traveled over the winter holiday. How do you make sure your workforce has secure, anytime access to vital applications and data when away from the office?
Thankfully, VMware has the perfect answer: Horizon Air cloud-hosted virtual desktops and applications. Horizon Air is a cloud service that delivers virtual desktops and applications without the hassle and cost of managing your own infrastructure. With Horizon Air, users can easily login and update final sales numbers, put final touches on a presentation or write that last-minute holiday blog without missing a beat. More and more businesses are discovering how cloud-hosted virtual desktops and applications offer a cost-effective way to give employees the freedom and flexibility to work from anywhere.
Some of the many benefits of Horizon Air include:
- Access from any device: Horizon Air desktops and apps deliver a premium end-user experience on virtually any device, from your favorite PC to the brand new iPad you just purchased for your in-laws.
- Lower cost: Unlike many other desktop-as-a-service providers, Horizon Air offers shared desktops and applications, helping you reduce per-user costs without sacrificing productivity.
- Pay as you go model: With a convenient monthly subscription model, only pay for desktops when you need them—perfect for seasonal employees, contract workers or as a holiday contingency plan.
- Guaranteed SLA: With 99.9% guaranteed service availability backed by VMware, you can have peace of mind that your users can access corporate data and applications whenever they need them.
- Integration with existing infrastructure: Help make life easier for IT with a cloud service designed to integrate cloud-hosted desktops and hosted apps into your corporate environment by leveraging corporate Active Directory and corporate application and file services.
- Built-in security and support: Horizon Air keeps data in the cloud and provides built-in security capabilities, such as secure point-to-point network connectivity, dedicated compute and network isolation.
While I can’t promise you a work-free vacation this year, VMware Horizon Air desktops and apps can prepare your company for any last-minute surprises. The VMware Horizon Air team hopes everyone has a wonderful winter holiday filled with fun and no doubt some much-needed rest and relaxation.
Learn more about the benefits and use cases for Horizon Air cloud-hosted desktops and applications here.
Click here for a VMware Horizon Air virtual desktop 7-day free trial.
