MokaFive, the four-year-old Stanford University spin-out backed by Khosla Ventures and Highland Capital Partners to wrestle with making the desktop into a service, claims to have reached a turning point and overcome the major barrier to widespread enterprise adoption of virtual desktops. It's taken the pricey server farm familiar in DaaS out of the equation while still providing the benefits of central management and the power of mass customization. Its new MokaFive Suite, the 2.0 version of the company's desktop virtualization technology, lets companies host a secure desktop man... (more)

Cloud Computing and Utility Software Licensing

Recently I read an article about a traditional enterprise grid computing company who is attempting to enter the nascent cloud computing market. Without naming names, I will say the technology is probably decent, what they seem to lack is any real insight into the cost advantages that cloud computing enables. What I'm getting at is the ability to scale your resources, hardware and softwar... (more)

Service Integrity Supports Cloud Computing

As services pervade how and what IT delivers, quality assurance early and often becomes the gatekeeper of success -- or the points of failure. IT's job is evolving to make sure all services really work deep inside of business process -- regardless of their origins and sourcing. Quality of component services is therefore assurance of quality processes, and so the foundation of general busin... (more)

Consumers Don’t Know a Netbook from a Notebook

Sixty percent of the people who bought a netbook thought it was just a cute little notebook, which is why 42% of them were disappointed with the widget's performance according research done by the NPD Group. The researcher found only 58% of the people who bought a netbook instead of a notebook were very satisfied with their purchase, compared to 70% of the folks who planned on buying a ne... (more)