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How desktop virtualization will end IT client hardware maintenance (and kill off Best Buy's Geek Squad)

In one fell swoop, John Whaley might end IT client hardware maintenance. And he might kill off the Geek Squad, too. Whaley, the chief technical officer of desktop virtualization company MokaFive, says desktop virtualization is becoming more widely adopted in...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Information Technology, Environment, Server, MokaFive, JW, Management Cost, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-28

MokaFive launches version 2 of its MokaFive Suite

MokaFive launches version 2 of its MokaFive SuiteVirtualization is a layerand thus saps computing power in order to power itself. This effect MAY be small - but it is there in any VM product.This idea of desktop virtualization is wrong headed. Centralized control of thousands or hundreds of thousands of...

Tags: Virtualization, MokaFive Suite, MokaFive

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

MokaFive launches version 2 of its MokaFive Suite

Desktop virtualization (the combination of access virtualization, application virtualization and/or processing virtualization for client-side deployment) has not gotten the intense industry attention that its cousin, server virtualization, has and yet, a number of suppliers have pegged their hopes and dreams to that nascent market. MokaFive is one of those suppliers....

Tags: Desktop Management, MokaFive, MokaFive Suite, Desktop Management Cost, Desktops, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Mokafive Version 1

I recently had a chance to speak with Dr. John Whaley, Co-founder and CTO of MokaFive. His company has developed a different approach to desktop virtualization (read a combination of virtual machine software, application virtualization and streaming) that, he hopes, will revolutionize how organizations create, deliver and administer desktop environments....

Tags: Environment, Virtual Desktop, MokaFive, Professional Solution, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-16

MokaFive announces general availability of LivePC desktop-as-a-service offering

MokaFive, a desktop virtualization company, has announced the general release of v.10 of its Virtual Desktop Solution, a cross-platform desktop-as-a-service DaaS product. The Redwood City, Calif. company says its DaaS solution is already deployed in nearly 50 pilot programs and has been downloaded over 80,000 times. The...

Tags: MokaFive, MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solution, MokaFive Professional, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-20

MokaFive and Desktop Virtualization

MokaFive and Desktop VirtualizationCarry flash drive?Carrying a flash drive is ok for now, but that's not really "on demand," is it?How demanding are you?I guess that depends upon how demanding a person is on their "on demand" needs. 8^)Dan KThe flash drive is just a cacheThe flash drive acts...

Tags: USB flash drive, MokaFive, desktop virtualization, software, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-04-07

MokaFive and Desktop Virtualization

MokaFive is lauching MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solutionâ„¢, its entry into the rapidly moving "desktop virtualization market, today. Although the claims MokaFive is making sound similar to many other suppliers in this area, the company appears to have come up with a slighly different approach, one that just make the process...

Tags: Security, Desktop Virtualization, MokaFive, LivePC, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Additional Resources

News to know: Verizon's Pre; Tornado; IDF; iPhone MMS; RedHat; Gmail outage

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Verizon says no to Palm Pre Andrew Mager: Tornado: The real-time web server from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, MMS, Red Hat Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., E-mail Providers, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-09-25

MokaFive Suite 2.0: Granular approach to desktop management

Several suppliers, including MokaFive, Citrix, HP, Neocleus, VDIworks, Virtual Computer, VMware, Wyse and a number of others, have developed ways to allow both a locked down environment and a staff member's own sand box to be running on the same machine at the same time. MokaFive and Virtual Computer appear...

Tags: Desktop Management, Approach, Desktops, Channel Management, Hardware, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-24

News to know: Yahoo, Windows 7, Palm, AMD, Blackberry Tour, Netbook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Yahoo: Showtime for shareholders this morning ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?

Enterprise IT infrastructure & operations professionals have many cloud computing technologies to choose from today, and new solutions seem to appear all the time. What are all these technologies? How do you categorize them? Which are mature and which need a lot of work? Forrester is kicking...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Desktop virtualization

By 2011, there could be more than 660 million virtualized desktops. John Whaley, CTO and Founder of MokaFive, talks about the issues surrounding current infrastructures and says that organizations deploying new systems need to think about four things--management, offline use, cost, and the user experience.

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, technology, virtualization, web services, internet, emerging technologies

Whiteboards 2009-01-05

News to know: Adobe; XP era ends; Enterprise 2.0; Apple

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: How to recover GPcode encrypted files? Larry Dignan: Adobe ups outlook; Creative Suite chugs along XP era ends: Will Vista step up? Techmeme eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball? MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole;...

Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Investment, Finance, Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Mokafive Version 1

Mokafive Version 1Files are too largeWait until the first home user tries to update their VM over their 1.5 Mb DSL, 4-10 Gb should only take a couple of days to get through. ;-) This isn't the way to go for Windows or other large VM's. Not...

Tags: Mokafive Version 1

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

News to know: Hactivists; XO-2 laptop; HP; Virtualization

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites Over 1.5 million pages affected by the recent SQL injection attacks DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed Ryan Naraine: Secunia finds 'highly critical' Foxit Reader Flaw Are you wary of...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Network, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Sales Strategy, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Desktop as a service era ramps up as Citrix marks May delivery of XenDesktop at a tough price to beat

Heralding a new era for desktop as a service DaaS, the long-awaited XenDesktop line from Citrix Systems will become available during the Citrix Synergy 2008 conference in mid-May. The XenDesktop product line is the latest entry in the effervescent virtualization market and will be co-marketed with Microsoft....

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., XenDesktop, XenDesktop Product Line, Delivery Protocol, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-16

InstallFree and Desktop Virtualization

It seems that various forms of "desktop virtualization" are coming from everywhere right now. I've spoken with a number of market newcomers and still come across new, interesting approaches to offering people the "desktop experience" without requiring their own desktop computer. I had the chance to speak with Yori Gabay,...

Tags: Application, Desktop Virtualization, Environment, Virtual Machine, InstallFree Desktop, IFV, IFV Application, IFV Desktop, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-04-08

News to know: Microhoo redux; Mobile Linux; Jive; Google; Let XP die

Notable headlines: Yahoo launches ’stock market for ads’ Larry Dignan: The three week Microhoo countdown begins... Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer tells Yahoo board: Get off the pot Microsoft's letter to Yahoo Paula Rooney: Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile Linux is poised for commercial takeoff in...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Linux, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-07

MokaFive moves desktop virtualization into the cloud

MokaFive, a three-year-old company from Redwood City, Calif., has driven a stake in the ground in the virtualization market with the introduction of its desktop-as-a-service DaaS innovation Virtual Desktop Solution. Combining cloud computing with local execution on a variety of platforms, including a USB flash drive,...

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, USB Flash Drive, MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solution, Professional Solution, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-06