Case Study: Thales achieves ultra-secure, rapidly deployed virtual workstations with VMware Horizon View

Thales Transforms Its Workstations into Ultra-Secure Digital Spaces

Thales, a global technology group with 64,000 employees across defense, aerospace, transportation and cybersecurity, needed to modernize how engineers and external partners access sensitive, even defense‑classified, data. The challenge was to deliver highly secure virtual workstations that preserve agility and ease of use while reducing rollout time and the operational burden on IT teams.

Thales implemented a private‑cloud VDI using VMware Horizon View to provide a single workspace for virtual desktops and applications with strong authentication for partners and subcontractors. The result: workstations provisioned in under 30 seconds, improved user experience and collaboration, a stable high‑performance platform with a 4‑hour (extendable to 2‑hour) SLA, lower operating costs and predictable, faster deployments—paving the way for further cloud management rollouts.

Thales

Xavier Bourguignat

Director of Partners and Alliances