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Trend: Disaster recovery takes center stage

The experiences of Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 have made disaster recovery a top priority for IT managers responsible for ensuring business continuity. With an increasingly distributed workforce and the high likelihood that connectivity to corporate networks would be limited by a disaster, how can IT ensure that end users remain productive? Just as important, how can IT guarantee that lost, stolen or destroyed computers will not cripple end users or compromise corporate security?

Mission: Ensure uptime, security & compliance in the face of a crisis

A company that issues laptops to employees needed to safeguard highly sensitive corporate data in case the hardware was lost or stolen. What’s more, the company’s employees relied heavily on networked applications and information to do their jobs, so any disruption in connectivity or destruction of their hardware would have caused a significant loss in productivity and revenue.

Solution: MokaFive Suite to the rescue

The company solved these challenges by deploying MokaFive Suite, MokaFive’s Desktop-as-a-Service platform, which answered both the need for swift disaster recovery and remote access. In the event of a catastrophe, the company’s IT department can now instantly provision users with LivePC virtual environments via download to any unmanaged computer using a Web link or, if Internet access is not available, by issuing LivePCs pre-installed on USB drives. Because the LivePC desktop image is centrally managed by IT, the company can also give remote and guest workers access to corporate applications and networks without compromising security. In case of a security breach, individual user access can simply be disabled, eliminating access to corporate information and applications.

Results: Despite threat of disaster, IT & end users rest easy with MokaFive

Using MokaFive, the company is now able to ensure business continuity even in the event of a disaster, and is able support a productive, mobile workforce without compromising security. With no single point of access failure, any IT administrator can make and distribute LivePCs as needed, as well as remotely revoke LivePCs in the event of hardware loss or security threat.