A breakthrough in mobile computing.

Trend: Employees are no longer stationary

Workers today rarely stay in their offices all day or just work from nine to five. Employees work from home, meet outside the office and visit clients or satellite locations. Mobile workers need access to essential enterprise applications and documents, but also to their own personal computing tools when they are on the road away from home. Increasingly locked-down laptops issued by the business aren’t doing the trick and are actually limiting worker productivity. Employees need more flexibility from their computing environment.

Mission: Provide mobile workers with a secure virtual desktop

A major healthcare organization needed to give its physicians access to work environments across multiple campuses and home offices, while maintaining the highest level of security and compliance for HIPAA and other regulatory requirements. Although these physicians had ample computing resources, they did not have access to a uniform, secure and compliant desktop environment from multiple locations. This limited access translated to impaired productivity and forced users to attempt risky work-arounds.

Solution: MokaFive Suite makes mobile computing possible

The healthcare company’s IT team was able to meet this challenge using MokaFive Suite, a Desktop-as-a-Service platform, to manage all aspects of the mobile desktop with a single, elegant solution. With MokaFive, the IT group provided physicians with a compliant LivePC virtual environment stored on an encrypted USB drive, letting them securely run the desktop on any unmanaged computer wherever they happened to be, regardless of platform or connectivity. Unlike alternative virtual solutions, physicians can now run rich, graphical applications with a LivePC because it uses the processing power and memory of the host hardware.

Results: With MokaFive, employees can stay mobile and productive

By deploying MokaFive LivePCs on secure USB drives, the healthcare firm enables its physicians access a secure desktop environment that they can easily take with them, while still complying with the strictest security and compliance regulations. After a quick and easy set-up, the IT department can easily track LivePC environments--if stolen or lost, LivePCs can be instantly revoked or deleted completely. All administration and maintenance is managed centrally by IT and is invisible to the user. If the user does encounter a problem, he or she simply rejuvenates the LivePC in a matter of moments, thanks to MokaFive’s self-healing technology, and the virtual environment is restored to its original clean state. Best of all, the organization has been able to save millions of dollars by issuing USB drives instead of laptops to each physician.