moka5 Making Updates to its Virtualization Engine and the Company

moka5, a virtual computing company targeting consumers and SMBs, announced that it has completed a $15 million Series B round of funding. This round was led by Highlight Capital Partners and included an additional investment by existing investor Khosla Ventures.

At the same time, the company made a management change. It named former Microsoft and Yahoo executive Bill Demas as CEO. Founder and former CEO Monica Lam will continue with the company as Chief Scientist to help moka5 continue to advance their technology.

In addition to these announcements, the company was also pushing forward, releasing their moka5 Engine Beta 17 for Windows. The new version has added a few features which include:

• Run as non-Administrator: In certain situations you can now run moka5 Engine from a limited-access guest account.
  
• Improved disk performance: Your LivePCs will now run even smoother, especially during heavy disk activity.
  
• USB hot-unplug support: moka5 Engine is now more tolerant of sudden disconnections when running from a USB device.
  
• VMPlayer 2.0 now bundled: moka5 Engine now comes bundled with the latest release of VMPlayer, which includes better support for Windows Vista and USB 2.0.

You can download Beta 17, here.

Posted by David Marshall on July 11, 2007 05:15 AM