This encapsulation of apps is different from how Horizon deals with Android devices where it runs an entirely separate virtual machine from the native platform, says Viarengo.

When it ships sometime next year, Horizon will be a single virtual application that installs in VMwares virtualization platform, vSphere, and it will support Citrix XenApps in its catalogs, says Viarengo.

The suite makes applications available centrally and deployable to end-user devices via catalogs compiled either by VMware, third parties or corporate IT. Users pick which apps they want from the catalogs and they are deployed to the device.

In addition to supporting applications, Horizon enables access to and sharing of data and files. VMware s virtual desktop software View is integrated.

Horizon Suite consists of technology gleaned from VMwares cloud-storage effort called Project Octopus, its browser delivery system for applications called Project AppBlast, its encapsulated virtual application platform called ThinApp, and its VMware Horizon Application Manager and VMware Horizon Mobile products.