It’s Official: MokaFive Goes BareMetal

Regular readers of this blog will recall that in June, we blogged about MokaFive BareMetal Player, which we were taking the wrappers off for industry insiders at BriForum. At VMworld we made our bare-metal preview official and demoed it to an appreciative audience. 

This comes, of course, at an interesting time. Just last month in its earnings call, , VMware killed its bare-metal hypervisor.  And just last week, Citrix decided to package its long-awaited XenClient bare-metal hypervisor with XenDesktop in an effort to get it to market faster.

With all the news, our bare metal solution was received as a welcome change.  The sentiment was echoed by Timothy Prickett Morgan of The Register in his eloquent (and irreverent) coverage of VMware, Citrix,  MokaFive and more.

We developed MokaFive BareMetal Player because our customers are asking for a solution that lets them forget about everything except the VM. They want to be able to run directly on the hardware and they want the same management they’re used to already with MokaFive Suite. And that’s exactly what we have with bare-metal: it provides a thin management layer that sits on the baremetal hardware, thus eliminating the cost  burden of managing additional OS’s and licenses.

Best of all, MokaFive BareMetal adheres to our commitment to deliver “choice computing.” In the bare-metal world, that means supporting a broad range of hardware—not half a handful of narrow configurations, and certainly not hardware deals cut in the backroom to lock customers in.

We believe our BareMetal will be a real game-changer in the desktop virtualization space. Like MokaFive Suite, BareMetal is designed to fit into existing infrastructure and to always be OS- and hardware-agnostic.

Take a look at this link of John Whaley’s video chat with Brian Madden at our VMworld booth. Generally, the response to BareMetal has been on par with Brian’s reaction – great! NetworkWorld even listed us as one of the hottest Vendors at VMworld.

 Purnima Padmanabhan, VP of Products & Marketing

Back from Briforum

Back from last week’s Briforum conference in Chicago, and I must say it was an enriching experience. How many people can say they rode to dinner in a stretch Hummer with 30 other geeks?

The amazing thing about Briforum was the content-rich discussions. Unlike other shows I’ve been to, Briforum was a super concentration of the leading practitioners and researchers in the virtual desktop space. Moreover, there was a candid, open sharing of ideas -- and a sense that no one has this figured out, so let’s all push it ahead together. Very refreshing.

In particular, I really enjoyed Ruben Spruijt (Twitter, blog) and Shawn Bass’ (Twitter, blog) overview on application and desktop delivery solutions. Impressively, in 75 minutes, it covered the full expanse of virtual desktops and applications. I left with a much better sense of the “lay of the land”.

For MokaFive’s part, John Whaley (Twitter) and I held a session on the huge promise of layering in virtual desktops, and it’s ability to greatly improve manageability of VMs for IT on the one hand and the customizability of VMs for users on the other. We had a terrific turnout and many great questions from the audience, even though we started at 5:30pm and lasted way into the dinner hour. A testament to dedication and fortitude of Briforum attendees!

Update: John just posted a short video demo where he gives an inside view of our layering technology. This is a "short and sweet" clip of what we showed during Briforum.



For more photos of BriForum, check out Brian Madden's Flickr stream and the fan section of MokaFive's page on Facebook.

Burt Toma

Tachibana teams up with MokaFive in Japan

Today we announced Tachibana Eletech Co. Ltd as a MokaFive distributor in Japan. With nearly 90 years under its belt, Tachibana is one of the most respected and well-established Japanese technology firms and will be a solid partner to bring MokaFive solutions to market.

Security and cost are two of the most important factors influencing the deal, according to Masao Hamamura, operating officer, Information & Communication Systems at Tachibana. His statement for our press release today was, "Security is a top concern for our enterprise clients, and MokaFive provides the best solution to secure desktop environments in a wide variety of secure remote computing scenarios. Another major factor that makes MokaFive Suite platform superior to competitive products is that it does not require our customers to invest in new hardware."

This is MokaFive's first major international channel partner announcement and with MokaFive Suite available as an easy-to-install platform, building out the channel network will be a primary focus for us. In addition to consulting, reselling, and developing systems using MokaFive, Tachibana will also use MokaFive technology to develop new products to extend its thin-client business unit, TC Cube.