The VMware Cloud Provider™ Program is a global network of over 4,200 service providers who have built their cloud and hosting services on VMware software solutions. These service providers deliver world-class cloud and hosting services to their customers across the globe.

The VMware vCloud® Architecture Toolkit™ for Service Providers (vCAT-SP) provides architectural guidance and best practices on VMware-based solutions. Using real world implementations, use cases, and actual customer requirements, this document enables service providers to define their service offering, ready for the demands of enterprise-class customers.

VMware Horizon® is available as VMware Horizon DaaS®, VMware Horizon Air, VMware Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode, and VMware Horizon 7, which is targeted at the enterprise. Horizon DaaS (desktop as a service) is targeted at service providers since it provides a multi-tenancy desktop platform, meaning a single instance of the solution can provide desktops and applications (on-demand) to multiple customers across multiple data centers. This allows service providers to offer a monthly consumption cost model, allowing each tenant to scale up or scale down the number of desktops they require as business demands change, while minimizing initial CAPEX investment. In the realms of cloud computing, this is often referred to as elasticity, and is one of the primary drivers behind DaaS.

Horizon 7 provides a holistic EUC solution architecture designed for a single tenant and unique capabilities often in demand by the modern enterprise.

One of the distinctions is Cloud Pod Architecture, which allows tenants to scale within the data center, and even across multiple data centers to meet requirements of a mobile workforce or even disaster recovery (DR).

Service providers can leverage Horizon 7 as a dedicated “managed” service offering for tenants with requirements that include, but are not limited to: