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Mokafive to Power Mobile Computing Program at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Top Canadian Polytechnic School Chooses MokaFive Suite Desktop-as-a-Service Platform for Security and Cost Savings in Infrastructure and Support

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—July 13, 2009—MokaFive™ today announced that Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning has selected MokaFive Suite to power their mobile computing program. One of the premier polytechnic institutes in Canada with the largest and most advanced mobile computing program in the country, Sheridan will use MokaFive Suite to support more than 5,000 students on a ‘Bring Your Own PC’ (BYOPC) model.

With MokaFive Suite, Sheridan creates a single, standard desktop image that all students in the mobile computing program download from a Web link and run locally on their own computers. Sheridan IT administrators manage the fully contained virtual desktop, called a LivePC, for thousands of students and faculty from a single server. MokaFive’s persistent user personalization enables Sheridan to manage and secure the standard computing environment, even updating and patching the core operating system and applications without disrupting student data, settings, or the supplemental applications students chose to install.

“We needed a solution that would provide a single, standard desktop environment to all our students and teachers that would work on any platform,” said Jason Gerrity, manager, Academic & Administrative Computing at The Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. “MokaFive provides exactly that. Their technology is feature rich and robust and is ready to go right now.” Gerrity added, “Their long term strategy and vision for virtualized computing aligns with our goals and objectives and their product will be an asset to Sheridan.”

Sheridan considered datacenter-based solutions prior to selecting MokaFive, but the costs of the back-end server infrastructure and lack of rich user experience made it prohibitive. MokaFive’s highly scalable architecture enables the lightest possible datacenter footprint for thousands of users, significantly saving Sheridan in server costs. With the MokaFive deployment, other expected benefits include a significant decrease in desktop support troubleshooting, and rapid on-boarding of thousands of users with hundreds of different types of laptops. The MokaFive solution is hypervisor and platform agnostic, addressing student’s current BYOPC needs with a Type 2 hypervisor based virtual desktop, and can also be extended to a Type 1 hypervisor-based solution. All LivePCs are centrally managed, allowing administrators to easily expire a student’s desktop environment when they graduate, or even suspend it temporarily while they are on vacation or studying abroad.

“Sheridan is taking advantage of MokaFive’s Desktop-as-a-Service platform to solve a problem thwarting many IT organizations: how to define a single image that can be customized for groups and further personalized by individual users, providing all the benefits of central management with the power of mass customization,” said Dale Fuller, CEO of MokaFive. “We look forward to working with Sheridan to support a broad user base with a secure yet flexible computing solution.”

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About MokaFive
MokaFive has developed a breakthrough technology platform that takes advantage of the latest advances in virtualization technologies, cloud storage, flash memory, and CPU power to solve the costly problem of managing desktops and laptops securely for workers in the office, on the road or at home. The company was founded in 2005 by a team of Stanford University researchers and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. For more information, visit www.mokafive.com.

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