VMware Horizon Alternative: Clientless VDI, Zero Trust & Multi-Cloud
Clientless Zero Trust VDI. No vSphere required. Any cloud, any hypervisor, one platform.
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40–60%
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Hours
Deployment time vs. weeks for Horizon
Any cloud
OCI · Azure · AWS · IONOS · GCP
Everything Horizon does, without the complexity
Thinfinity Workspace delivers full VDI, application delivery, Zero Trust access, and PAM in a single clientless platform.
Clientless Zero Trust
HTML5 browser · Windows native client · Linux native client · Android & iOS native apps. No Horizon Client, no plugins. ZTNA and MFA built in, no UAG required.
Concurrent Licensing
Pay for peak simultaneous sessions, not named users. Organizations with shift work, contractors, or seasonal spikes save 40–60% vs. Horizon's per-seat model.
Single Platform
VDI + app delivery + ZTNA + RPAM + Remote Browser Isolation: one platform, one vendor, one support contract. No Broadcom + KKR split.
Deploy in Hours
No Connection Servers, no UAG, no SDDC. A containerized architecture deploys Thinfinity Gateway, Broker, and Workers in hours on any infrastructure.
Full Desktop & Virtual App Delivery
Publish full persistent or non-persistent desktops, pooled desktops, or isolated virtual applications. Streamed securely to any device from any browser or native client.
Session Recording & PAM
Full session capture, keystroke logging, and audit trail built in. RPAM manages privileged and third-party access with role-based policies.
Container-based Remote Browser Isolation
Every browsing session runs inside a disposable container, isolated from the endpoint, the network, and other user sessions. When the session ends, the container is destroyed. No malware, no tracking, no data residue reaches the user's device.
Zero endpoint exposure
Browser exploits, drive by malware, and ransomware are contained, the endpoint sees only a pixel stream.
No client install required
RBI sessions delivered through Thinfinity's HTML5 gateway, fully clientless, same as VDI access.
Kubernetes-native scale
Containers spin up on demand via Thinfinity's orchestration layer, scaling to thousands of concurrent sessions.
Policy-driven isolation
Apply RBI by URL category, user group, or risk score, with granular controls and no separate appliances.
Internal Web Application Access
Publish any internal HTTP or HTTPS application, intranet portals, legacy web apps, internal dashboards, or SaaS tools behind a firewall, through Thinfinity's Zero Trust Web Application Gateway, without opening inbound firewall ports or deploying a VPN.
Legacy web app modernization
Publish older intranet apps built on outdated frameworks securely without rewriting them for the cloud.
Full audit trail
Every access event, session, and request is logged, satisfying compliance requirements for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and LGPD.
No inbound firewall rules
Outbound only reverse proxy, Thinfinity Gateway initiates the connection, no ports exposed to the internet.
Identity-aware access
Every request is authenticated and authorized, SSO, MFA, SAML, and RBAC are enforced before any app is served.
Freedom from hypervisor lock-in. Full automation on any infrastructure.
Connect to any hypervisor or cloud
VMware vSphere / vCenter
Reuse existing VMware VMs without Horizon
Microsoft Hyper-V
Windows Server. Zero additional licensing
Proxmox VE
Open-source, community-supported, zero cost
Linux KVM
Native kernel hypervisor, bare-metal performance
Oracle KVM (OCI bare-metal)
No hypervisor overhead on OCI compute
Public cloud (any)
OCI, Azure, AWS, IONOS, GCP. All supported
Native on OCI: No VMware Tax, No SDDC Overhead
Horizon on OCI requires the full Oracle Cloud VMware Solution stack. vCenter, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, on top of bare metal. Thinfinity runs natively on OCI compute, using OCI services directly.
Horizon on OCI (OCVS)
Thinfinity on OCI (native)
70%
Lower compute cost vs. Azure/AWS
40–60%
Lower TCO vs. Horizon on OCVS
Hours
Deployment time on OCI
One platform. Any cloud. Managed from a single console.
Thinfinity Cloud Manager unifies virtual desktop provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle across every major cloud without per-cloud add-ons or separate management consoles.
Thinfinity Cloud Manager Capabilities
ROI Calculator: Cost of Switching
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Questions we hear most from teams migrating off Horizon
No. Thinfinity is fully hypervisor-agnostic. It runs on VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox, KVM, and OCI native compute with no VMware dependency at any layer. You can decommission vSphere entirely or keep it. Thinfinity works either way.