The vendor is also trying to keep it at an affordable price point: Pricing starts at $35 per month per user for a “full Windows client experience.” Horizon DaaS supports both Windows Server and Remote Desktop Services environments, as well as full Windows client desktops, which VMware indicated will be a differentiator for it in the growing DaaS space. “However, very few solutions in the market can deliver a seamless end user experience across multiple clouds like VMware Horizon DaaS.” “Our experience working with customers deploying DaaS the last several years have shown that the majority prefers a blended environment with both on-premise and cloud desktops,” said Sumit Dhawan, vice president and general manager of Desktop Products for VMware’s End-User Computing business, in a prepared statement. But with Horizon DaaS, VMware is providing customers with what it’s calling “hybrid DaaS.” Horizon gives customers the ability to blend public cloud desktops and on-premise Horizon View private cloud desktops. Over the last few months, VMware has been bolstering its seven-year-old DaaS business, including acquiring DaaS provider Desktone in October 2013. VMware (VMW) has launched VMware Horizon DaaS, a cloud-based desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering that the company noted provides cost-effective, enterprise-class virtual desktops running on the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.

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