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MokaFive BareMetal Platform Released

MokaFive BareMetal Platform Released

First Published on June 15, 2011 - 5,838 Views

For Part II of my Synergy solutions review I’m going to take a look at the much-anticipated BareMetal platform that MokaFive launched at last month’s Citrix Synergy.

BareMetal is the last part of the MokaFive Suite (reviewed here) and MokaFive’s answer to the type 1 client hypervisor offerings  from Citrix and Virtual Computer. BareMetal is a special-purpose virtual desktop execution environment that is installable directly on the bare metal of a desktop PC or laptop, replacing the native operating system.

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Adapt or Die – How Desktop Virtualization Will Reshape the VAR

First Published on February 17, 2011

Back in 1987 I spent a while working for a PC dealership, what we now call a Value Added Reseller.  I don’t actually recall that the term VAR had been coined at that point, and besides the people I worked for tended to be referred to as “that bunch of bloody cowboys”

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MokaFive Suite 3.0 – BareMetal Player and Windows Licensing

First Published on December 15, 2010 - 1,135 Views


Following my last blog post on MokaFive Suite 3.0 I received a couple of questions on the MokaFive BareMetal player and the licensing implications of working with a client hypervisor. Both good questions, as both directly address significant points of differentiation between MokaFive and its competition.

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MokaFive intros Suite 3.0 and new DaaS platform

First Published on December 9, 2010 - 2,219 Views

Redwood City-based MokaFive made two announcements this week, introducing its first cloud offering (MokaFive Suite Service Provider Edition) as part of its next generation desktop virtualization suite (MokaFive Suite 3.0) – MokaFive has clearly focused more on engineering than it has on funding product branding focus groups and appears to have done so to good effect.

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