Microsoft making moves in the Desktop Virtualization space

Microsoft announced today some pretty aggressive moves in the desktop virtualization space. First, they announced their acquisition of Calista Technologies, which optimizes the remote display protocol used in hosted and other VDI-like solutions. Technology like Calista's, along with their alliance with Citrix, are important to VDI-like solutions to give end-users an acceptable user experience, especially with interactive or multimedia-rich applications.

Moka5 Crashing Macworld

Macworld is going on this week in San Francisco, and so a couple of us from Moka5 grabbed a MacBook Pro and a handful of USB drives to go crash the show and do backroom demos of the just-released Moka5 for Mac OS X beta. You can now use the same USB drive on both Mac and Windows with all your LivePCs, so now you can use your LivePC in even more places. Unfortunately, we got stuck in the registration fiasco and missed the keynote. But it all turned out well - we got our badges and had fun cruising the show floor. We made the most of our free registration and did private demos of a new Mac product in a corner near the South Hall escalators. There was a Taiwanese outfit selling little dog bone USB sticks. We should get one for our company Chihuahua, so she can have her own LivePC. I'll be there tomorrow in my Moka5 shirt so if you see me, grab me and I'll give you a private demo of our latest stuff and some exclusive Moka5 goods.

Moka5 video from one of our younger users

Today I ran across a video made by one of our younger users on how to use Moka5 to run Ubuntu alongside Windows or Mac:

 

He recorded the whole thing live and showed how to build a Ubuntu LivePC from scratch in just a few minutes.  Quite impressive!