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.
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Purnima Padmanabhan, VP of Products & Marketing
Sounds awesome! Are you going to release a free download so we can try it out?
ReplyDeleteDoes the BareMetal MokaFive run on a Mac?
ReplyDeleteThis is one of those issues that has come up for me, having Macs in house. Citrix debuted XenClient showing a bare metal hypervisor running on a Mac, yet their XenClient solution only runs on a handful of PC's.
It was of no value to me.
Thanks! We’ll have a beta program, likely towards the end of the year. Please go to[http://www.mokafive.com/baremetal] to sign up for information on baremetal when it’s available.
ReplyDelete@ Brian Cross - A BareMetal Player installation would remove the existing OS. Would you really do this to your Mac? We’re not planning to support BareMetal Player on Macs. Most Mac owners buy their machines in large part because of the Mac OS.
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ReplyDeleteI am also a Mac user and would be interested in running Windows along side OS X. I don't really understand your question. I don't think Brian is implying that he wants to run a Windows VM on his Mac by itself.
Currently, I use Parallels type 2 hypervisor for my Windows machine. I have 8 GB of ram and my VM is still sluggish. Additionally, I have to shutdown or suspend my Windows VM whenever I patch or have to reboot my Mac.