VMware, Inc. announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Gartner named VMware a Leader for its completeness of vision and ability to execute.
As the workforce becomes more distributed, securely delivering and managing services to end users with traditional or legacy desktop and app tools has become increasingly difficult. VMware Horizon Cloud provides IT with a modern, flexible approach to deliver, protect, and manage desktops and applications as a service across single cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments.
«The demands of today’s distributed workforce require IT organizations to offer flexible and more secure solutions that can help provide exceptional employee experiences,» said Shankar Iyer, senior vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. «As part of our Anywhere Workspace solutions, VMware Horizon Cloud gives IT a DaaS platform that offers employees the freedom to work in the environments they prefer, while enabling IT to flexibly deliver modern DaaS services using their clouds of choice.»