Omnissa Horizon is a virtual desktop infrastructure and application delivery platform. It gives users access to full desktops or individual applications from many devices, with data kept in the data centre or cloud rather than on the endpoint. According to the vendor, it can run on-premises, in private clouds or in public clouds such as Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. The product was previously sold under the VMware Horizon name.
Omnissa is a US company with an address in Mountain View, California. Wikipedia reports that Broadcom agreed in 2024 to sell the former VMware end-user computing division, which includes Horizon, to the private equity firm KKR, which is therefore the owner. Because the vendor is US-based and US-owned, US law can apply. Organisations should check where any cloud-hosted components store data, a point the product page does not state. An on-premises deployment keeps desktops and data under the organisation's own management.