MokaFive at VMworld

This year’s VMworld conference is fast approaching, and we are beginning to feel the excitement as we prepare to participate after a two-year hiatus. Over the past couple of years, we’ve been focused on three key areas: refining our product, gaining customer wins, and raising awareness of MokaFive. First, on the product front: I am [...]

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Going Green with Virtual Desktops

Everyone is talking about Green IT these days, and virtualization is a popular way to save money and reduce your environmental impact at the same time. Many companies have already discovered the benefits of virtualizing their servers, so the natural progression is to begin looking at virtualizing their desktops, as well. There are several environmental [...]

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VDI Project? One question to make sure you ask.

We recently hosted a CIO summit that was attended by several CIOs, representing some of the largest organizations in the US. The topic was desktop virtualization, and we had a terrific discussion about ongoing initiatives at each company. One CIO cited a statistic that was so surprising, shocking really, it really stuck out in our [...]

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VDI post on Madden: good observations, different conclusions

Last month, I predicted that VDI will be just a niche play as the cloud matures. Yesterday Brian Madden posted a dramatically different perspective about the extent to which VDI will penetrate computing. This perspective was not his own, but he thought it interesting enough to write about it. The problem though is that although [...]

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Back from BriForum 2010

Just got back from BriForum 2010, it was a great show as usual. This was the largest BriForum yet – both the attendee count and the exhibitor count were higher than ever. We had a table this year and got a lot of traffic. It was nice because most attendees were pretty knowledgeable about desktop [...]

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Introducing MokaFive on BareMetal

We’re gearing up for BriForum this week, and for us, the highlight will be a sneak peak of an exciting new product that we have been working on: MokaFive BareMetal. Starting today, you can see for yourself what this solution is all about. Stop by our booth (#300) for the demo by MokaFive’s CTO, John [...]

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What is the right virtual desktop model for BYOC?

A recent blog post by Brian Madden compares the security differences between Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors. Brian writes that Type 1 bare-metal hypervisors are “possibly more secure due to the smaller attack surface of the hypervisor.” But he’s quick to point out that neither Type 1 nor Type 2 hypervisors are a one-size-fits-all [...]

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Going to BriForum 2010?

This year’s BriForum conference is coming up June 15 – 17 in Chicago, and we’ll be there with some exciting announcements and demos (hint: some new, really cool things straight from our lab). Make sure you catch John Whaley, our CTO, who will present two sessions: • “BYOPC: IT Panacea or Management Nightmare”(8:45 am on [...]

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Cloud and the Evolution of Client Computing

The headline of Mark Bowker’s article in Network World recently caught my attention: “Will Cloud Lead to the Failure of VDI?” No equivocations on my part; the answer is a resounding yes. Today, there are multiple deployment models, but fast forward to three to five years from now, when cloud computing becomes much more mature, [...]

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To centralize, or not to centralize

You wouldn’t do this with eggs. Why would you do it with your company’s desktops? Desktop virtualization holds great promise to dramatically reduce IT support costs, while allowing end users unprecedented access and flexibility. There are now dozens of offerings to choose from. But beware – your approach matters. A lot. Picture the last time [...]

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