Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV: More Choice, More Simplicity for VDI and App Delivery
In today’s world of hybrid work, global teams, and constant cybersecurity threats, modern digital workspaces and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) are more critical than ever. Organizations need to deliver secure, high-performance desktop experiences – anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Effective VDI must also be easy to deploy across any environment, simple to manage, secure by design, and resilient and scalable enough to ensure business continuity.
That’s why we’re excited to announce at .NEXT 2025 our new partnership with Omnissa. Omnissa Horizon, the desktop and app virtualization solution, has been integrated to fully interoperate with the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. This gives organizations more flexibility in how they deploy VDI on the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) solution and a powerful new option for delivering virtual desktops and applications.
With Omnissa Horizon running on NCI with AHV, customers can deploy VDI in their on-premises datacenters, in private clouds and across public cloud providers while managing it all through a unified platform that provides consistency and control.
Whether supporting hybrid workforces, high-security environments or large-scale desktop environments, this partnership offers more choice and greater operational simplicity. Customers can register today to be included in the beta program.
One Platform, Optimized for End-User Computing
Omnissa Horizon is widely recognized for its exceptional remote experience, offering workstation-class performance, high-quality graphics, and crystal-clear voice and video. It also includes Omnissa App Volumes, which dynamically delivers applications and user data to desktops. With App Volumes, IT can streamline app lifecycle management and deliver updates faster with less user disruption.
Pair Omnissa Horizon with Nutanix AHV for an infrastructure foundation that’s purpose-built for simplicity, performance and resiliency. Together, Horizon on NCI with AHV offers:
A consistent hybrid multicloud experience. Run Horizon across on-premises and public cloud environments including Azure and AWS using one unified platform.
Operational efficiency by managing virtualization, networking, security, and automation from a single unified control plane.
High availability and performance thanks to the Nutanix web-scale architecture.
Simplified app delivery and desktop management through Omnissa App Volumes and integrated Horizon services.
A more cost-effective approach to VDI by removing the need for separate hypervisor licenses and complex infrastructure layers.
Inherent security by design, including the Nutanix Data Lens SaaS-based data security solution, which offers ransomware resilience, monitoring and intelligent analytics
Why this Matters
Traditionally, running VDI at scale required a patchwork of infrastructure components – such as compute, storage and hypervisors – each with their own siloed tools and complexity. Nutanix brings all of that together in a unified software platform and helps to reduce the time and effort to deploy and operate a virtual desktop environment.
By bringing Horizon to NCI with AHV, Omnissa is giving customers more deployment flexibility while simplifying the path to hybrid and multicloud VDI. Whether you’re modernizing an existing environment or starting from scratch, it’s now possible to deliver secure, high-performance desktops and apps on infrastructure that’s easy to manage and built for the future.
Be sure to sign up for the upcoming beta program and visit us at the upcoming .NEXT 2025 conference to see Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV in action. You can also visit our website for information about taking your end-user computing strategy to the next level.
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