The document discusses VMware Horizon solutions for transforming higher education learning environments, emphasizing modernization, improved security, and better access to educational resources. It highlights the growing expectation for cloud-based, mobile learning solutions and outlines strategies for optimizing IT infrastructure while ensuring data security. Key features include digital workspaces for students and staff, desktop and application virtualization, and support for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives.

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VMware Horizon:
Transforming Learning
and Environments
VMware End-User Computing Solutions for Higher Education
Lorenzo di Palma
Senior Specialist Systems Engineer
EUC/Business Mobility

2. Learning Happens Everywhere
And Every Place is Now a Learning Space
Access
Classroom
Lectures
Libraries,
Labs, and
Lounges
Online /
at Home

3. Modernization is Becoming a Requirement to Meet…
Sources: Inside Track, Leadership Series; U.S. Department of Education; EDUCAUSE
Increasing Student, Faculty,
and Staff Expectations
Changing Demographics
and Priorities
Growing Security Concerns
and Tighter Budgets
Higher education is competitive.
“Students expect access to
elegantly designed, user friendly
self-service resources….”
86% of undergrads have a
smartphone; 47% have a tablet.
40% of all college students are
older than 25 and 33% of
students enrolled in higher
education courses take at least
one online course.
727 education breaches occurred
during 2005-2014 and the average
number ofrecords exposed per
breach was 27K.

4. Where Might You Begin?
Modernize and
mobilize learning
environments
Improve The
Campus Computing
Experience
Enhance security
and privacy
Improve
efficiencies and
reduce costs

5. Achieve Your Outcomes with VMware End-User Computing
Solutions
Personalized Anytime,
Anywhere, Any Device
Digital Learning
Environments
Operational
Efficiencies that Lower
Costs and Risks
Privacy and Security
Practices for Today’s
Mobile Use Cases
Consistent,
High-Performance
Access that Supports
Learning Beyond
Classrooms and
Digital Equality

6. Securely Meet Student, Faculty,
and Staff Work Styles
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Initiatives
and Secure Digital Backpacks
• Give students always-available, customized access
to digital courseware through one workspace
• Use centralized resources to deliver apps and data
to both user and institution-owned devices
• Safely enable access to your network for the 3+
connected devices students bring to campus
• Support secure collaboration from anywhere
• Decrease IT help-desk load

7. Deliver Uninterrupted Access to
Learning Resources
Computer Labs in the Cloud and Online
Learning
• Provide 24/7 virtual desktop access to all educational
resources, on- or off-campus
• Deliver high-performance full, web, and 3D apps outside of
traditional computer labs
• Enable online learning while decreasing costs with fast,
reliable workspaces hosted as a service or on-premises

8. Safeguard Personal Data and
Intellectual Property
Security, Compliance, and Privacy
• Trust any user and secure any endpoint or application
• Assign policy-based access by student and course load
• Protect research and intellectual property by harnessing
data in the data center and also on endpoint devices
• Easily customize securitylevels by department (e.g.,
medical school, businessschool, financial aid department,
athletics department)
• Limit access to sensitive data if a breach occurs
• Enable rapid wiping of university data from devices

9. Maximize Operational
Efficiencies and Reduce Costs
Optimize Application and Device Use
• Rapidly deploy and provision desktops
• Simplify classroom- and institution-wide device,
application, email and content management
• Maximize investmentsby prolonging the life of existing
infrastructure and redefining traditional replacement cycles
• Integrate current campus IT infrastructure with key
infrastructure components such as NACs, student
information systems, etc.
• Improve environmental performance

10. Driving Limitless Learning
Institution
Secure
User
Simple

11. Make the Move to Desktop and Application Virtualization
Simplify Desktop and
App Management
Secure Data and
Improve Compliance
Drive Down Costs

12. VMware Horizon Portfolio
MAIN OFFICE REMOTE OFFICE CAMPUS SPECIALIST MOBILE NON-EMPLOYEE
Horizon Flex
Containerizeddesktops
and apps
Horizon Air
Cloud-hosted or Hybrid-
mode desktop and app
delivery from the public
cloud
Horizon 7
Desktop and app
delivery from private
cloud

13. Horizon Makes Desktop and App Management Easy
Horizon centralizes end users' desktops and applications in the datacenter, so IT can efficiently provision
new clients, centralize desktop management, and improve security and compliance and is based on 7 key
pillars
Desktops and
Apps From a
Single Platform
Smart PoliciesJust-in-Time
Desktops
Great User
Experience
Flexible and
Hybrid Delivery
SDDC
Integration
Complete
Environment
Management

14. Desktops and Apps From a Single Platform Deliver
Applications
Manage
Applications
Support for
Windows and
Linux
The ability to efficiently and cost-effectively deliver, manage and monitor
virtual desktops and published applications to end users who may not need
access to a full desktop.
DESKTOPS APPLICATIONS

15. Horizon 7:
Great User Experience
Support for 3D
Graphics
Adaptive and
Contextual User
Experience
Unified Workspace
for Easy Access to
Apps and Desktops
Familiar and
Intuitive: Complete
PC Features
Choice of PCoIP or
VMware’s Blast
Xtreme H.264
display technology
Support for the
broadest range of
devices

16. Features list
Hosted Apps
and RDS
Desktops
Printing
Scanning and
Imaging Devices
Smart
Card
USB Storage
Devices
HTML5 and
Chromebook
Clients
Client Drive
Redirection
Windows Media
Redirection
File Type
Association
Skype for
Business / Lync
2013 for RDS
Desktops
3DApps and
Desktops with
NVIDIAGRID
URL Content
Redirection
RTAV
USB
Redirection
Application
Layering
User
Environment
Management
Load
Balancing
RDSH Image
Management

17. Hosted
Desktop
Workspace can be accessed
from anywhere
Reduce costs with
session-based desktop
Use less infrastructure
and reduce management
overhead
The Horizon Difference: Every Kind of Desktop
17CONFIDENTIAL
Persistent
Desktop
Custom experience for
knowledge workers
Get the same desktop
every time you login
Customize to meet your
unique needs
Install specialized
applications
Non-persistent
Desktop
Infrastructure cost savings
Re-usable storage
infrastructure
Most cost effective
implementation for
task workers
Just-in-time
Desktop
On-demand creation of
live virtual desktops
Fully personalized
desktops and apps
Scalable to thousands
of desktops
Optimized infrastructure
usage

18. Just-in-Time Desktops
With innovative technologies like Instant Clones, User Environment Management
and App Volumes—Horizon ensures that IT can streamline desktop and application
management like never before, providing employees with truly stateless desktops.
Drive Down
Storage Costs by
>30%
Deliver Apps
Instantly
Streamline
OpEX by >50%

19. Smart Polices
True SSO
Experience
Policy-Managed
Client Features
Access Point
Authentication
Common Criteria /
FIPS 140-2
Policies are tied to the end user allowing IT to be able to provide end users with a
truly contextual user experience with policies dynamically changes depending on
the device used or the location services are being accessed from.

20. Access Policy for web and Horizon
• Horizon can use Access Policies (like web apps)
– Enables use of VMware Verify step-up authentication
– Combined with Horizon True SSO, allows for zero password access to Windows resources
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Touch ID for “Workspace”

21. Modern Approach to Application Management
Support
complete
environment
management
Simplify
management
and version
upgrades with a
single template
Deliver and
update
applications in
seconds and at
scale
Comprehensive Application & User Management
User
Environment
Management
App
Management
Image
Management
Monitoring
& Analytics
Infrastructure
Updates

22. SDDC Integration Compute (vSphere)
Storage (vSAN)
Networking (NSX)

23. Hybrid-Cloud-Ready Platform
HYBRID CLOUD
HORIZON AIR
CLOUD HOSTED
HORIZON AIR
HYBRID-MODE
CLOUD ON-PREM
Leverage single pane of
glass to manage on prem
and cloud services
Start on prem or in the
cloud or a combination of
the two
Deliver desktops to best
meet the needs of end
users

24. HORIZON 7
Horizon Air with vSAN-Ready Nodes
HORIZON 7
HORIZON AIR
ON-PREM
Drives costs
down
Great user
experience
vSAN Enabled
Infrastructure
and Desktops

25. Recap
VMware is “de facto” the only provider with the required credentials for digital transformation.
Industry-leader in
cloud and virtual
infrastructure
More than 500,000
customers
Complete end-user
computing platform with
centralized management
solutions
Hundreds of awards,
including Frost & Sullivan
2015 Mobile Education
Product Leadership Award

26. Deployment of Your Choice
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27. Enable the Digital
Workspace
Publish windows
apps alongside SaaS
and mobile apps – in
one workspace
Enable app
access from any
device, with no
single point of
failure
Support BYOD by
securely delivering
apps to any device
Leverage SSO
for any app,
including Horizon
published and
SaaS apps

28. Stay Secure
Run sensitive business
critical apps in the
secure datacenter
Eliminate data leakage
due to lost or stolen
devices
Reduce app malware by
always running a trusted,
untainted executable

29. Team with VMware to Accelerate Learning Transformation
Enable limitless
learning
Retain students,
faculty, and staff
Improve
productivity &
performance
Simplify BYOD
and 1:1
Streamline
management
Reduce IT risks
and costs

30. Q&A
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