VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model
December 13, 2023
VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model
By Krish Prasad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, VMware Cloud Foundation Division
Broadcom’s close of the VMware acquisition has brought together two engineering-first, innovation-centric teams to help build the world's leading infrastructure technology company. Together, we are well-positioned to enable global enterprises to embrace private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. And we are committed to driving customer success through faster innovation, a simpler portfolio and a robust ecosystem.
Over the past two years, VMware has been on a journey to simplify its portfolio and transition from a perpetual to a subscription model to better serve customers with continuous innovation, faster time to value, and predictable investments.
Today, VMware by Broadcom has reached a new milestone with the announcement of the following:
- A dramatic simplification of our product portfolio that allows customers of all sizes to gain more value for their investments in VMware solutions. The portfolio simplification across all VMware by Broadcom divisions stems from customer and partner feedback over the years telling us our offers and go-to-market are too complex.
- Complete the transition of all VMware by Broadcom solutions to subscription licenses, with the end of sale of perpetual licenses, Support and Subscription (SnS) renewals for perpetual offerings, and hybrid purchase program/subscription purchase program (HPP/SPP) credits beginning today (effective dates will vary). Additionally, we are introducing a bring-your-own-subscription license option, providing license portability to VMware validated hybrid cloud endpoints running VMware Cloud Foundation.
Read more about this on VMware by Broadcom's official website here.
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Optimize your Microsoft Azure DaaS budget with the new Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard Subscription.
Optimize your Microsoft Azure DaaS budget with the new Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard Subscription. Omnissa announces Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Standard Subscription, a cost-effective and scalable desktop as a service (DaaS) offering designed to simplify virtual desktop and application delivery. The offering allows customers to use Horizon Cloud on Azure to deliver optimized single-session VDI desktops or multi-session RDSH (Remote Desktop Session Host) desktops and apps, while streamlining management and modernizing app delivery. Furthermore, Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure offers a superior, personalized end-user experience that boosts productivity and satisfaction with end-users. Let’s take a closer look. Flexible Desktop and App Configurations Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard Subscription allows IT to choose between single-session and multi-session configurations for VDI and RDSH. Single-session VDI gives each user a dedicated virtual machine, which provides efficient resource utilization, personalized experience, and enhanced security. For single-session VDI, IT can offer end users dedicated/persistent and floating/non-persistent desktops. Multi-session, also known as RDSH, provides both published desktops and published applications that are available as shared sessions from a virtual machine, allowing multiple users to share resources leading to reduced costs. Streamlined Management with the Horizon Control Plane Managing virtual desktops and apps in any cloud and across data centers can be challenging, but the cloud-hosted Horizon Control Plane simplifies it with a suite of next-gen SaaS services for unified management of Horizon deployments, including Horizon Cloud on Azure. The Horizon Control Plane provides various management services like app and image management, power management, unified brokering, and monitoring. The Image Management Service automates the image publishing process, making it easier to replicate and scale images across single and multi-cloud environments. Dynamic power management automatically adjusts resources based on demand, reducing compute costs. Instead of paying for desktops based on powered-on capacity, regardless of if they’re being used, IT can control how desktops are provisioned and deprovisioned based on user load or schedules. Unified brokering allows users to seamlessly access virtual desktops and apps through a single URL, using intelligent routing that considers available capacity, location, and user preferences. For monitoring, Omnissa Intelligence (included with this Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard offering) and Experience Management for Horizon (available as an add-on to this Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard offering) provide IT teams with insights into end-user experiences, helping identify issues and improve performance. These are just some of the comprehensive set of services on the Horizon Control Plane that help IT teams simplify management of their Horizon environments. Modern App Delivery with App Volumes Traditional app lifecycle management in virtual desktop and app environments is often complex and time-consuming. To reduce complexity and time, Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard Subscription includes App Volumes and Apps on Demand, available directly from the Horizon Control Plane. App Volumes improves application delivery by allowing IT to package applications once and deploying them across Horizon 8, Horizon Cloud, and even other virtual desktop and app solutions. IT can use App Volumes to separate app management from OS management and therefore reduce the number of OS images being managed. App compatibility is no longer an issue as App Volumes supports diverse app formats that can be delivered anywhere. With Apps on Demand , IT can further reduce lifecycle management, time and infrastructure costs by delivering apps to users when they need them, not if they need them. Exceptional User Experience To provide a great user experience, Horizon Cloud on Azure desktop and app experience can be optimized via the Blast Protocol, personalized with Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM), and accessed using Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub. With the Blast Protocol, end users get an immersive display experience with high-fidelity visuals, high quality audio and video, robust GPU support, and security features like screen capture blocking. Thousands of peripherals are supported to meet industry-specific requirements, like credit card readers for retail or tap-and-go secure sign-in readers for healthcare. DEM simplifies profile management and personalization through dynamic policy configuration, combining the ease of managing application and persona settings while providing consistent and personal desktop experiences. Users can access desktops and apps directly from Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub, which offers a unified app catalog with SSO to published apps, packaged apps, SaaS apps, virtual desktops, and web links.
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