RingCube Technologies has announced the release of the MojoPac Enterprise Edition software that allows telecommuters, contract workers and road warriors the ability to store a virtual desktop onto a USB drive. I’m sure you’re thinking that this isn’t special in anyway and that Citrix does the same thing, but this is where you’re wrong.
MojoPac is distinctly different in that you don’t have to be connected to the network to run your applications. You don’t necessarily even need a USB drive because the software even works on your iPod, so anything that connects via USB is acceptable. It also runs on any Windows XP or Vista machine as a guest, so the host computer is oblivious to anything going on. All your corporate secrets are safe in the event your laptop is stolen, but that only holds true if you keep your USB drive someplace else when not in use.
Desktop on a USB drive ready for enterprises [Yahoo! News]
Wow. This is pretty sweet. I like it. (Favorited MojoPac).
I’ve been using MojoPac for about 9 months, and I highly recommend it (now that they’ve worked out a lot of the bugs). I created a hidden partition (using True Crypt) & installed MojoPac there, so it’s pretty secure if my external HD is lost or stolen.
On the downside, it’s kinda pricey, and not everything will run within MojoPac, but after using the demo, I found it to be the best solution for my purposes.