"It's the exact same vision, but this time we're delivering on it," Herrod told the keynote audience, eliciting some chuckles. He noted that customers have spoken clearly. "You want us to deliver suites, not point solutions."

The point solutions, he said, create a hodge podge of tools and add complexity to IT. That translates into increased costs and reduced flexibility.

"Last year at VMworld, we unveiled our vision for End User Computing and in May we showed progress across all axis of that vision--that is Desktop, Apps and Data, by shipping a new version of View, Horizon Application Manager and the beta release of Octopus for secure file syncing and sharing," says Vittorio Viarengo, vice president of Product Marketing, End-User Computing at VMware.

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"Since then, our engineering team has been very busy bringing these components together into a one, integrated and cohesive suite. It's hard work, don't try to do this at home (nor should you have to do it), but we believe it is the right thing to do in the long run. The VMware Horizon Suite provides end user with a single place to get access to their apps, data and desktops and gives IT a single management console to manage entitlements policies and security."