Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV gains customer traction

Customer adoption is rising for Omnissa's Horizon deployments on Nutanix AHV, with American National Bank of Texas among the organisations now running the setup in production.

Before the offering became generally available, more than 200 customers signed up for the beta programme. The integration lets organisations run Horizon virtual desktops and applications on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor.

American National Bank of Texas expanded its Horizon use after previously running a smaller deployment on another platform. The move aligned its virtual desktop strategy with its existing Nutanix environment, and the bank now uses the system to deliver financial applications to staff.

About 30% of the bank's workforce currently runs on Horizon, and that figure is expected to rise to nearly 70% over the course of the year. The shift has helped standardise its virtual desktop and application infrastructure.

"Our employees depend on fast, reliable access to financial applications every day to serve our customers," said Jack Yang, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at American National Bank of Texas. "Running Horizon on Nutanix gives us a secure and consistent way to deliver those applications, while giving us a platform we can confidently scale across the organization."

Customer Demand

The take-up is an early indicator of demand for alternatives in the virtual desktop market, as companies reassess how they deploy and manage end-user computing environments. Customers want more flexibility in where workloads run and how infrastructure is managed across on-premises and cloud environments.

Horizon is Omnissa's virtual apps and desktops product, and the Nutanix tie-up extends it to a hypervisor used by organisations building private and hybrid cloud environments. The arrangement is intended to give customers more infrastructure choice while keeping application delivery and desktop management within the same product family.

Omnissa also highlighted the role of App Volumes in the combined offering. The product can be used for application provisioning and management alongside Horizon and Nutanix infrastructure management.

That is relevant for IT teams trying to reduce the operational burden of virtual desktop infrastructure and app publishing at scale. Organisations running mixed environments are also under pressure to keep management models consistent across private and public cloud deployments.

"Our collaboration with Nutanix reflects our commitment to empowering customers with greater choice over how they deploy and operate their digital workspace platforms," said Bharath Rangarajan, Senior Vice President of Products and Technology Alliances at Omnissa. "With Horizon, customers gain the flexibility to run their digital workspace on the infrastructure that best aligns with their operational, security and digital workspace environment needs."

Partner View

Nutanix framed the adoption trend as part of broader demand for more options in virtual desktop infrastructure. Businesses increasingly want to avoid being tied to a single operating model for desktop and application delivery.

"Customers increasingly want more flexibility in how they run virtual desktop infrastructure," said Gregory Lehrer, Vice President of Business Development and Ecosystem Sales at Nutanix. "Supporting Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV enables organizations to run desktops and applications on a platform designed for simplicity, scalability and consistent operations across hybrid environments."

Channel partners are also watching the shift as customers weigh infrastructure changes alongside desktop modernisation projects. Choice Solutions, which works across Nutanix and end-user computing deployments, said the partnership broadens the options available to clients.

"We are very excited about the collaboration between Omnissa and Nutanix," said Shane Kleinert, Senior Solutions Architect and EUC Practise Co-Lead at Choice Solutions. "As a long-standing Nutanix Elite partner (Nutanix Premier Reseller), we bring deep expertise across both infrastructure and end-user computing. Our partnership with Omnissa strengthens our ability to help customers evolve their platforms with confidence, whether modernizing infrastructure or transforming EUC strategy aligned to their needs and existing investments. Together, we deliver greater flexibility, reduced vendor lock-in, and a clear path to choice for our customers."

Omnissa, previously VMware's end-user computing business, became an independent company in 2024 and says it serves 26,000 customers worldwide. More than 200 beta signups for Horizon on Nutanix AHV have already translated into early production use cases, with American National Bank of Texas among the first named customers.