![]() ![]() ![]() You’d anticipate some lag when using these remote machines, but MacStadium has built software to optimize memory allocation while the Macs are used. The company has also done work to optimize the data journey, Chapman told me. This ownership and limited use of desktops per Mac brings the service in line with Apple’s EULA requirements for virtualization. The client can choose between running one or two virtual desktops from each physical host. The environments are encrypted at the data layer and use AES256 encryption for the transmission of the desktop to the end user.Įach customer gains access to a pool of dedicated Macs owned by that customer. In use, each environment runs with multiple firewall layers and proxies to protect endpoint and host access. MacStadium currently has data centers in the US and Ireland and plans to open a new one in India in early 2023.Īs you’d expect, the data centers are well protected, compliant with robust standards such as SOC I, II, III, ISO-27001, 2, Privacy Shield, and GDPR. (This may matter less, given the limitations of desktop storage, more about which below.) While the service is available internationally today, IT admins concerned about data sovereignty should know the Macs are stored in the company’s data center. The system also provides a thin client way of accessing that Mac desktop from a browser. In use, administrators can quickly create Mac desktops running on actual Apple hardware and distribute access to their teams. He argued that while endpoint management is well served, matters of delivery, access, logistics, and Mac expertise may confound some firms. “Global supply chains and logistics are more delayed and tangled than ever, the work environment has permanently shifted to hybrid and remote work anywhere,” he said. He thinks enterprises will use Orka Workspace as an easy and convenient way to deploy Macs to employees across borders, given the many challenges to global supply chains and logistics. “We believe there a large and growing group of enterprise Mac users that need access to Mac compute or additional Mac compute to do their work and that they will be able to use this product to do things like developing, Q & A testing, training, education, and so on,” Chapman said. ![]() Orka Workspace is for developers, testers, creators, contractors, and for company IT seeking to effectively deploy Macs in their business. The idea is that it becomes possible to equip temporary workforces with a virtual Mac. “Creating on-demand Mac desktops really requires a cloud and we are uniquely positioned to deliver Mac as a cloud," he said. ![]() That meant working with Apple’s own tools, the inherent abilities of Apple Silicon and the M1 and using the Mac’s virtualization framework. “We have put a lot of effort into engineering both physical and software technology around the Mac to provide both performance and management capabilities for creating a good experience,” Chapman said. MacStadium had to figure out how to bridge that gap. It is not a machine you work from remotely, and its OS is not designed to live in the cloud. It’s built as a bicycle for an individual’s imagination and not intended to be the velocipede for a hive mind. The Mac is not inherently remote friendly. And providing access to the Mac platform is a large gap in current cloud capabilities.” How can the Mac become a service? “In the enterprise world the landscape is shifting from centralized to decentralized workforces and people are leveraging bring your own desktop (BYOD), which is leading to Mac as a primary choice,” said Chapman. “As an enterprise, providing consistent, secure tools has become paramount. "It is not only the primary way we use tech in our personal lives, but also is increasingly becoming the tool of choice for our work lives."Īs the ecosystem expands, the use cases also grow. “The time is right for Mac-as-a-service because the Apple ecosystem is growing and accelerating at an amazing rate,” Chapman said. Why is this a good time for Mac-as-a-service? ![]()
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