It’s officially over! For us, VMworld 2010 was an exciting ride.
Day one started with a bang when Network World named MokaFive BareMetal the Hottest Virtualization Product at VMworld. Even though our booth (#1736) was in the far corner of the show floor, we had a crush of traffic visit the booth to learn more about MokaFive. There was a lot of the excitement and buzz about MokaFive especially around our recent announcements on BareMetal player, our partnership with AVG and our MSP beta program. In addition to the high volume of booth traffic, we had a great set of conversations starting with The Register in the morning, Forbes in the afternoon, and a sprinkling of industry analysts throughout the day. Then there were meetings with prospects and partners that went into the wee hours of the morning. The great food and wine at Marlowe just made it even better.
The excitement continued into day two, three and four. The session on VDI TCO caught my attention. It was truly revealing and entertaining. The speaker said, “don’t bother trying to justify VDI on the basis of TCO, find alternative justifications like security etc.” Now that is what I call clean speaking. This just reinforces my conviction that the MokaFive datacenter-less (distributed) approach is the right way to go. Among other attractions, both Brian and Gabe from brianmadden.com stopped by the booth to discuss BareMetal , we had a surprise visit by our angel investor, Vinod Khosla, and Dale did a radio gig on Internet Evolution.
Net-net the predictions I made in the previous blog turned out to be nearly correct. The messaging was cloudy and VMWare killed CVP officially. But contrary to my prediction there weren't as many open source application companies. Well two out of three, ain't bad.
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Purnima Padmanabhan, VP of Products & Marketing
You are claiming that you have a bare metal or type-1 hypervisor but in fact it's clearly a type-2 / hosted solution since it's VMware player running on top of Linux.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing wrong with your approach, in fact it has many benefits but the misleading marketing you're doing is only going to hurt you
Thanks for your comment--as a matter of fact, we’ve been taking much care to not call our product a “type-1” solution. Since we install a service OS directly on the hardware and manage the complete stack; we have referred to the product as “bare metal”. That said, others have assumed or speculated that the capability that we previewed is a type-1, and subsequently reported it as such, which may be the source of your confusion. In any case, we appreciate you raising the point!
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