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Wanova is a software company with a client-based desktop VM management product. But unlike some of the other vendors out there, Wanova's solutions does NOT leverage a client hypervisor. Inside they break up Windows into multiple layers, with a machine-specific layer that can be changed out based on the specific hardware. Like other virtual desktop vendors, Wanova also handles the updating, patching, continuous backup, etc.


  • Now AppSense is entering the "user installed apps" game. Will these things ever become real?

    Yesterday AppSense CTO Harry Labana announced that AppSense is getting closer to releasing their "Strata" product for managing user-installed apps (UIA) in locked-down and layered environments. This is something they first talked about at BriForum last...
    by Brian Madden on October 20, 2011 : 10 comments , 6,260 views
  • Wanova Mirage: now with more layers

    Last week I met with Wanova’s Ady Degany to shoot some videos and hear about new capabilities in their Mirage product. Mirage divides your client’s hard drive into layers and syncs them with your datacenter, giving you a few new management...
    by Jack Madden on October 18, 2011 : 1 comments , 2,329 views
  • Brian Madden TV #30 - VMworld 2010 wrap-up show

    Brian & Gabe attended VMworld 2010 last week. In this week's BMTV they discuss the biggest news and buzz of the conference. Also, in a slight change in format, we've decided to post all of the individual vendor demo videos separately instead...
    by Brian Madden TV on September 09, 2010 : 2 comments , 3,925 views
  • Video demo of Wanova's offline laptop disk management thing (It's really cool!)

    It's been almost a year since I first wrote about Wanova, a software startup company whose "Mirage" product (seriously) product is used for managing, updating, patching, etc., laptops in the field. Wanova plays a big role in the whole "offline...
    by Brian Madden on June 07, 2010 : 4 comments , 6,917 views
  • What is Layering, and why does it matter?

    We have been talking about layering now for the better part of a year, and while it's an interesting technology, it's sort of an ambiguous concept to a lot of people. There are a number of vendors out there with layering solutions-- MokaFive , Wanova...
    by Gabe Knuth on October 21, 2009 : 26 comments , 8,508 views
  • New startup Wanova hopes to enable local VDI over the WAN with continuously-synced disk images

    A desktop virtualization company called “ Wanova ” came out of stealth mode yesterday . Their forthcoming software product called “ Mirage ” is a solution for streaming, managing, and bi-directionally syncing Windows disk images...
    by Brian Madden on August 20, 2009 : 5 comments , 5,874 views