It's is a big week for the team here at MokaFive. As many of you know, MokaFive started as a project at Stanford to use virtual machines to make it easier to manage desktops. A little over a year ago we released our 1.0 product, which was a hosted solution. We got a lot of positive feedback from customers about our 1.0 product, but the number one customer request was to provide the capability to run the MokaFive service in-house.
So this week, we announced 2.0! The 2.0 technology comes in the form of an enterprise-ready Desktop-as-a-Solution platform: MokaFive Suite. With 2.0, you can install and run MokaFive Suite in your data center, behind your firewall, and serve your end-point clients without depending on us. You can integrate with all your existing management solutions. You are in total control.
Enterprise computing is reaching a turning point right now as desktop virtualization technologies mature - answering business challenges that haven't been solved before. Our customers are innovating with the quick to deploy MokaFive Suite, taking advantage of mass user-customization, policy-based security. We will share detail of how different businesses (across healthcare, legal, finance, other professional service companies) are solving their challenges - and the benefits they have achieved.
We have also added some exciting new capabilities on the client side. For a long time, we have been working behind the scenes on a new layering technology that dramatically changes the way you can deploy and manage virtual desktops. This technology allows you to separate the machine into layers that can be independently managed and updated. Among other things, you can now allow users to install their own applications, while you can still manage and update a single golden image. That's right, your users can install any applications (even kernel drivers) and they will persist across rejuvenation and updates, as long as you set the policy to allow them to do so. This is a major breakthrough and one of the biggest barriers to widespread adoption of desktop virtualization, and MokaFive is the only solution on the market today that gives you that ability.
We also re-designed the client and it is now using a new disk format. The new format is much more reliable and has better performance, especially if you are running a LivePC off of a USB flash drive that can be suddenly removed. Users running v1.x LivePCs will need to manually migrate to 2.0 to take advantage of the new features. The migration process is pretty straightforward. Export the LivePC with v1.x Creator and then import it using the v2.0 Creator. Here is a detailed document to walk you through it [link]. Let us know if you need help.
Stay in touch with the MokaFive blog for information and perspective on the concerns and trends related to the modernization of enterprise desktop computing. We invite your feedback, questions and opinions - starting with the announcement of MokaFive Suite.
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