How to Support Macs in the Enterprise

by Purnima Padmanabhan on February 10, 2012

In my previous blog, I wrote about today’s Mac revolution that has been spawned by the popularity of the iPad and propelled by the more recent success of the MacBook Air. Mac has historically been a consumer device of choice, but it’s clear from talking to our customers that the consumerization of IT is upon [...]

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Designing a MokaFive enterprise system

by Purnima Padmanabhan on June 14, 2011

I recently talked with Guy Yardeni, Partner/Principal Consultant with Convergent Computing. Guy has been implementing MokaFive Suite and shared with me some best practices he has developed. I asked him if he would put together some recommendations for other MokaFive customers and partners who are implementing large scale deployments. Guy was describing his experience setting [...]

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BareMetal: Back to the Future

Yesterday, I was having a chat with MokaFive’s CTO, John Whaley, and Burt Toma, our Director of Products, about the just-announced MokaFive BareMetal.  Where, we wondered, does BareMetal fit into the architectural ecosystem? As we deconstructed the issue, we found ourselves replaying one of computer science’s most notorious debates: monolithic versus microkernel architectures. Linus vs [...]

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A win-win partnership: MokaFive & Quest Software

Earlier this morning, Quest announced a partnership with MokaFive to bring a joint solution to the market that will bring tremendous benefits to our collective customers and to our organizations. Often when partnerships are announced, you are left with the feeling that maybe one of the companies in the agreement got a raw deal. Not in this case. [...]

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What Would You Like to Hear at VMworld?

Earlier this year, we received an overwhelming response to our CTO John Whaley’s session on securely implementing BYOC at RSA, and this got us thinking: what else would you like to hear about from MokaFive?  As we’re gearing up to submit a speaking proposal for VMworld 2011, we  would like to hear from YOU what [...]

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Upgrading to Win 7 SP1 in 2 SECONDS!

Last month came the moment that most desktop admins dread: the release of a new Windows service pack.  Service packs are multi-gigabyte behemoths that routinely fail to install, break applications, and generally tick off users everywhere. This morning, our IT guy pushed out SP1 to our company using the standard MokaFive update process.  To pace [...]

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The iPad is Great, but Virtualizing the MacBook Air is about Pure Productivity Bliss

I had the chance to make the short trip up to San Francisco last week for the RSA Conference. I had some terrific meetings lined up, and also had some downtime scheduled in between a few of them. Being the “exemplary” 21st century executive that I always strive to be, I figured I could catch [...]

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RSA Conference 2011: BYOC and Security

I presented a session on BYOC and Security at RSA Conference 2011 today. Judging from the turnout (the room was packed), there is a lot of interest in this topic right now as companies are struggling with how to deal with employee-owned devices. When I asked how many people worked at companies that have official [...]

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Desktop Virtualization Savings: It’s in the Approach

One of the things we keep hearing from prospects about desktop virtualization is cost. In fact, in a meeting with our CIO Council this spring, the CIO of a major Wall Street bank said this firm’s investments in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution had so ballooned out of proportion and the experience had been [...]

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Windows 7 Migration Just Got Easier with MokaFive Suite 3.0

Today, MokaFive hit a significant milestone: the release of MokaFive Suite 3.0. We began pilots over two years ago with some early adopter customers. Since then, these customers have gone into production – in some cases even increasing the size of their deployment – and now they’re beginning to see real, tangible business benefits from [...]

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