# Horizon Cloud Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/desktop-as-a-service-daas) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Horizon Cloud VMware Horizon Cloud enables the delivery of cloud-hosted or on-premises virtual desktops and apps to any device, anywhere, from a single cloud control plane. ## Horizon Cloud Reviews ### 1. Consistent Desktop Access On Any System **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew P. | Data Analytics & Marketing Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** I enjoy the Horizon Cloud because it delivers a consistent desktop experience each time I log in, whether at the office, at home, or on the go. Once configured, all employees receive the same set-up and access to standard programs such as MS word, excel, powerpoint, etc. Even marketing programs like Adobe Creative Suite can be loaded into the desktop, drawing design power from virtual GPU and RAM. Horizon Cloud is a wonderful way to support a hybrid at-office & remote work experience for your employees. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** There is the occasional severe lag when connecting, depending on what server you end up on. This can lead to disconnects, visual glitches, or black screens. The can also be significant lag when saving files cross-server, from local onto the Cloud. Horizon defaults to full-screen, which I don't care for; I use Horizon for shared e-mail and then operate Adobe Creative Suite on my local machine to take advantage of much more RAM and physical GPU. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** After the pandemic hit, we needed a proper remote work option for all employees. The Horizon Cloud allowed us to deliver a consistent experience for all employees, making transitioning back into the office easier since all files/programs were on the cloud. ### 2. Horizon Cloud is an exceptional product used by our IT Ops teams across hybrid cloud environments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreyans P. | Corporate Development + Venture Practice Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** The desktop experience for Horizon Cloud is absolutely consistent across the IT Ops team. Management and configuration of Horizon Cloud is absolutely seamless, and the console is easy to use and navigate. It also offers very dynamic user options, allowing to cater needs to the user, role, or company expectations. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** Horizon needs to consider offering more streamlined access from both desktop and mobile devices. There should also be further connection options available, as there are currently very limited options for adjusting the connection quality from the Horizon Client interface. This enhancement would be helpful, especially when dealing with varying speed connections and multiple functions in hybrid cloud environments. **Recommendations to others considering Horizon Cloud:** Horizon Cloud is a very well suited solution for Enterprise companies, especially with a wide and diverse user base. The solution can be costly as more and more users are added, but provides a very rich user experience and flexible delivery of apps and/or desktops from one interface to any device. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware Horizon View has allowed my team to manage our devices very effectively across desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms. It enables my team to quickly deploy a new pool of virtual machines using a custom image with minimal effort. It also allows for rapid deployment of updates or updated desktops and new applications without user downtime, repetitive action, or physical access. ### 3. Great for access on-the-go! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristen S. | Executive Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** Provides desktop management solutions, quality control and privacy. Allows for applications to be downloaded and for our IT Team to access and view installations and track progress. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** This isn't something frequently used by a desktop user - more for behind the scenes (IT / Network Administrators). **Recommendations to others considering Horizon Cloud:** Great for IT and remote desktop services! If your company has a remote IT team with employees across states, this is a perfect solution. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily call IT and request assistance or new application installation and allow for them to remote into my computer and help with the issue. ### 4. VMware Horizon is a great way to connect virtually **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan M. | Technical Support Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2018 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** Ability to connect to our campus network from off campus and have a virtual desktop that is safe and configurable. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** For this software, I can't really think of anything I don't like about it. **Recommendations to others considering Horizon Cloud:** Easy to use both via their client or via HTML connections. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems with it so far, and benefits are that our counseling staff and others can connect up to our network safely and work from other locations (like High Schools or working from home). In addition, our students can also use it to connect up to virtual desktops so that they can run specialized software (like Mathematics calculators and more) to help them with their studies. ### 5. I'm far from a pro, but I loved what I saw **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris B. | Songwriter and Recording Artist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** As far as virtual desktops go, this is far and away the best combination of rich features while simultaneously being user friendly and easy to learn. Although I am not involved in the finance side of it, I know it was super affordable option as well. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** Very little! It works just like it should, and that's saying something. **Recommendations to others considering Horizon Cloud:** Make sure to take advantage of their tech support. Set up can be very daunting, but they made the process much easier for us. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** We feed virtual desktops to the PCs in our Maker lab via our IT department. The user experience has been fantastic. ### 6. Horizon Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** I like that it’s fairly simple to use and brings up my complete work desktop at home. It’s incredibly helpful that it’s compatible from PC to Mac. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** I have had several issues in the past logging on or timing out. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to work from home through a fairly simple vehicle. ### 7. I was actually satisfied using this… **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan G. | Executive , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** I like how they have all different supports when needed, and all languages are available. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** I don’t like how this program can’t provide the perfect tools. And that you need to bring Your Own Microsoft Azure Account. **Recommendations to others considering Horizon Cloud:** Becareful with the pricing because it can range from cheap to expensive. Overall it’s a good program just needs to fix some bugs and other things. I’d give it a try because you could have a different experience from me. First off, try the free trial to see if you like this softaware. . **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** The users local storage is on ESXi hosts. ### 8. Great software to connect with your encrypted documents **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah W. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** Ease of use, long lasting connection. Very user friendly software that makes it Seamless to connect to and access your internal documents securely. Highly recommend **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** Nothing. This system replaced our old way of connecting which when used remotely, required a specific security setting on personal wifi, requiring many employees to change their WiFi to business and front the cost. This system doesn't carry such stringent requirements. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily accessing data and documents from any location not docked to the internal server. ### 9. Run Qlikview through this virtual desktop at BD **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** The main reward is the ability to handle large files that I would not be able to run on my laptop. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** The copy and paste function in Qlikview is broken through VMWare. I am unable to copy data, or send reports directly to excel from Qlikview while using this program. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have many programs as a company that we run through Horizon cloud, but I personlly only use Qlikview through this for performance reasons. ### 10. Useful to use Linux on windows boxes **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew B. | IT Services Client Group, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** I like the fact the you are able to use Horizon to access the remote VMs even when we are not on campus. The software is downloadable on many devices, including Mac, PC, iOS, Android, etc. The remote controls also work very well on iOS devices, because you can change the controls into however you want. That makes it a lot easier to control the VM when you are using such a small screen device like the iPhone. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** When using the client, sometimes the server can be forgotten. For example, when ever I am using this software on a lab machine, our production view server is set to 'view . my Company . edu', but often Horizon defaults to our testing server, 'view test . my Company . edu'. It is frustrating how it does not always remember the server I want to use. **Recommendations to others considering Horizon Cloud:** Have a stiff infastructure, because there is a large load on the VM machines, and they sometimes do get slow. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accessing remote resources, because we are able to access the VM Linux Machine from where ever we are, it makes it easier to use the resources we need to access. Students are able to use Doctor Java Software which is much less buggy on the linux machines, but we do not need to have deticated linux boxes to run this soft ware, we can simply put it on top of a windows box. ### 11. Convenient and easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** Allows my company to access what I need remotely and from another device if necessary. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** Difficult to grasp at first, but becomes easy to use over time. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accessibility, allowing employees to operate while remotely. ### 12. Review of VM Horizon Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neel S. | MS Associate System Analyts, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** Nice tool to work on cloud and it's user friendly so, anyone can use easily and work on it. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** Nothing is dislike too is best and very helpful tool. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using to connect virtual machine on client server. ### 13. DaaS reseller **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** Using static desktops, I can log in anywhere and have a consistent experience across devices. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** Sometimes it can freeze up for 30 seconds or so. Or very occassionally it will shut the VM down and I'll lose all my open tabs. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on the road, at home, or at the office with a seamless experience. ### 14. Seamless **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Horizon Cloud?** The ease of logging into my remote work environment. **What do you dislike about Horizon Cloud?** Occasionally an error with no explanation. **Recommendations to others considering Horizon Cloud:** User-friendly and simple! Was up and running in no time. **What problems is Horizon Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows me to work remotely from any location. - [View Horizon Cloud pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/horizon-cloud/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+07%3A50%3A12+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=05efdbff-1d7c-42a3-a261-b1e1ddbf4eb6&secure%5Btoken%5D=813e154ed8dd13af9a611352a5a4bf15621ce44ead27d3753a65cd75b080ae46&format=llm_user) ## Horizon Cloud Features **Functionality** - Desktop Virtualization - Application Virtualization **Functionality** - Desktop Virtualization - Backend Hosting - Hybrid Desktop Hosting **Desktop Management** - Desktop Provisioning - Image Management - Load Balancing **Management** - Admin Console - Solution Integration - OS Compatibility - Cloud Infrastructure Selection **Support** - Multi-Device Portability **Security** - Two-Factor Authentication - Single Sign-On (SSO) - Encryption - Access Controls and Permissions ## Top Horizon Cloud Alternatives - [Citrix DaaS](https://www.g2.com/products/citrix-citrix-daas/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (520 reviews) - [Amazon WorkSpaces](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-workspaces/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (96 reviews) - [V2 Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/v2-cloud/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (236 reviews)