Live from SYS-CON Virtualization Conference

I'm sitting at the SYS-CON Virtualization Conference in NYC, listening to the Keynote by Sun VP of Global Systems Engineering, Dr. Hal Stern. Dr. Stern is talking about the future of virtualization and service-oriented architectures (SOA). He described the move toward more dynamic architectures, with faster development cycles, more user-generated content, and increased leveraging of open source technologies.

He identified some of the challenges that people and organizations are facing and will face in the move to this new model, including security and trust, issues with managing growing data centers, and long-term information sustainability. He also identified the fact that increasingly so, consumers are becoming creators. Just look at Wikipedia, Youtube, MySpace, etc. All of these are based completely on the content generated by its users.

At moka5, we believe this trend will continue beyond just text and videos to complete computing environments (LivePCs). Our moka5 LivePC Engine and online LivePC Library allow anyone to create a PC image and share it with anyone in the world. Trying out a new LivePC is just a mouse click away, and everything runs within a secure virtualized environment. From the IT service shop who creates a LivePC to manage all of their law firm clients, to the family computer guy who manages the 2-3 PCs for the household, to the end user who wants to experiment with Linux or take a personalized LivePC with them on a USB drive, we want to build a platform that people can use to build, share, and use computing.