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Why Choose VMware® Horizon™ Suite Over Citrix?

Today’s mobile workforce requires a better way for users to access their workspace and applications from any location on any device. Simultaneously, IT organizations need a solution they can trust—and one they can easily manage. To meet these diverging requirements, VMware® introduced VMware Horizon™ Suite. This value-packed suite includes VMware Horizon View™, VMware Horizon Mirage™ and VMware Horizon Workspace™ and provides the following capabilities:

•Virtualdesktopsandapplications

•LayeredWindowsimagemanagementwithcentralizedmanagement, backup, and recovery

•Filesharing

•Mobileworkspacemanagement

•Applicationcatalogandmanagement

•Centralizedpolicy-basedmanagement

HorizonView

HorizonMirage

Horizon SuiteThe platform for workforce mobility

Horizon Workspace

Virtualize desktops and applications

into the datacenter

Layered Windows image

management

Single workspace for secure access to corporate assets on

any device

Figure 1: The Horizon Suite Platform

The Horizon Suite all-in-one approach provides powerful advantages over other solutions on the market. Organizations using Horizon Suite receive more value and more capabilities than those usingthevariouspointtoolssuppliedbyCitrix.Theyalsoenjoyamoney savings and a quicker Return on Investment (ROI) by purchasing a packaged suite as opposed to purchasing, installing, andmaintainingindividualtoolsfromCitrix.CustomerschooseVMwareHorizonSuiteoverCitrixforthefollowingprimaryreasons:

•Trustedandreliable

•Managementsimplicity

•Bestend-userexperience

•Bettervalue

Trusted and ReliableAstheleaderinvirtualizationandcloudcomputing,VMwareisanestablishedvendorwith100percentoftheFortune500andGlobal100 companies worldwide. VMware has gained a strong reputation for understanding enterprise IT needs and delivering a robust product with integrated management, monitoring capabilities, and tight security.

Providing some of the highest uptimes in the industry, VMware offers customers the reliability they require for even the most demandingenvironments.AccordingtoGartner’s“Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure,” VMware is in the lead position—providing both world-class technology and customer support.Further,trustcomesfromyearsofdeliveringmarket-leading built-in security and the necessary IT control, while maintaining a simple structure. VMware delivers reliability, security, andcontrolwithoutaddedcomplexity.

Management Simplicity

VMware Horizon Suite is built on the leading virtualization platform, VMwarevSphere®.Leveragingthewealthofmanagementcapabilities vSphere offers, IT administrators are able to centrally manage and entitle users to corporate assets based on policy and simplifythecomplexitiesofthemulti-deviceworldwithasinglemanagement platform.

The VMware product portfolio is known for management simplicity andconsistentuserexperience.Thisreducesoperationalexpensesand provides the fastest time to return on investment. With some of thelowestTotalCostofOwnership(TCO)levelsintheindustry,VMware products continue to raise the bar in ease of use and low managementoverhead.ComparedtoCitrix’spointproductspurchased from multiple vendors, each with its own installation and each with its own management interface, VMware Horizon Suite continues the ease-of-management and ease-of-use tradition that is a hallmark of vSphere and Horizon View.

CitrixXenDesktopdoesnotprovidethesamelevelofintegrationwith vSphere that Horizon View provides. Storage and IOPS-saving capabilities from vSphere are uniquely available in Horizon View andtheHorizonSuite.Citrixcontinuestouseprevious-generationtechnologies and consequently cannot provide the speed of ROI andthelevelofTCOthattheHorizonSuiteintegratedproductsetprovides.

Best End-User Experience

VMwareHorizonSuiteoffersabetteroverallend-userexperienceby providing a single workspace for accessing all corporate assets regardless of device, maintaining intuitive and native user experience,andseparatingcorporateassetsfrompersonalones.Inaddition,HorizonViewoffersleading3Dgraphicscapabilitiesby

Why Choose VMware Horizon Suite Over Citrix?

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addinghardwareaccelerationtotheexistingfullyvirtualized3Dgraphicsoffering.AccordingtothePrincipledTechnologiesreporton“Desktop Virtualization with VMware View Compared to Citrix XenDesktop,”ViewandPCoIPperformedeitherbetterthanoraswellasCitrixandHDXfornetworkbandwidthconsumptionandend-userexperienceforalltestcases.

Horizon Workspace provides robust separation of corporate from personalassets.Endusers’expectationsforusabilityandeasyaccess to corporate assets are matched while the manageability, security, and compliance IT requires are maintained. Horizon Workspaceleveragesdual-personacapabilitytosolveAndroidfragmentation, providing control and security for IT, while users get theirprivacypreserved.Citrixlacksthedual-personacapability.UnlikeHorizon’srobustandflexibleworkspacemanagement,CitrixCloudGatewaydoesnotmanageawholeintegratedworkspace,butcan only try to protect corporate assets one application at a time. Further,HorizonWorkspacehasbeendesignedfromthegroundupto manage corporate assets only and this makes Horizon WorkspacetheperfectmatchforBYODandCOPE(companyowned,personallyenabled)deployments.CitrixXenMobileisprimarily a mobile device management tool that takes full control of the device—including personal data.

Better Value

VMwareHorizonSuiteprovidesmorevaluethanCitrix’ssimilarofferings by providing an integrated, comprehensive end-user mobility platform that includes the critical management capabilities—atnoadditionalcost.Citrix’sportfolioalsolackseasy-to-use, low-profile, layered Windows image management, and they cannotdelivercentralmanagementforacustomer’sentirePCinstallation, nor can they deliver zero-touch image deployment, painless Windows migrations, or fully automated backup/recovery.

Layered Windows Image

Management

Virtual Desktops

Multi-DeviceWorkspace

Figure 2: Horizon Suite Addresses All Three End-User Computing Priorities

WhileCitrixispurchasingpointtoolstosolveyesterday’sproblems,VMware has built a platform for today’s—and tomorrow’s—mobile workforce. The Horizon Suite all-in-one solution offers the following distinctadvantagesoverCitrix:

VMWARE HORIZON SUITE CITRIX CLOUDGATEWAY, SHAREFILE, XENDESKTOP, ACCESS GATEWAY

Extensibleandflexibleplatform

Citrixhaspointtoolswithalong road to integration

100% on-premise, secure file-sharing solution in addition to offering a cloud solution

ShareFileoffersonlydataonpremise.Applicationisstillhosted by sharefile.com

Desktoplayering,migration,and desktop backup and recovery

None

Tight integration with and similar management experienceasvSphere

No specific integration with vSphere

Androiddual-personasolution None

All-in-one solution Citrixrequirespurchaseofmultiple products such asCloudGateway,XenDesktop,ShareFile,andNetScalerAccessGateway

Table 1: Horizon Suite vs. Citrix Set of Point Products

SinceCitrix’sportfoliolackseasy-to-use,low-profile,layeredWindows image management, they cannot deliver central managementforacustomer’sentirePCfleet,norcantheydeliverzero-touch image deployment, painless Windows migrations, or fully automated backup/recovery.

VMware Horizon Suite Is the Top Choice

More organizations trust VMware vSphere to provide the most reliable, highly secure, and robust platform available today. VMware Horizon Suite was built from the ground up to leverage vSphere integration and offers the same management simplicity and platformadvantagesthatusersexpectfromVMware.HorizonSuiteis the most complete end-user computing solution on the market spanning physical, virtual, and mobile workspaces. Horizon Suite providesallofthisinonehigh-valuepackagethatexceedsend-userexpectationsandmeetsITrequirementsinanever-changingmobileworkplace.