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MacStadium, the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, today announced the extended availability of Orka Cluster 3.2, establishing the market’s first enterprise-grade macOS virtualization solution available across multiple deployment options. This breakthrough release enables organizations to deploy Orka on AWS, within MacStadium's private cloud, or on-premises in their own data centers, delivering unprecedented flexibility for enterprise mobile app development.

MacStadium, the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, today highlighted its major enterprise partnerships and technical innovations over the past year. This momentum underscores MacStadium’s commitment to innovation, customer success and leadership in the Apple enterprise ecosystem as the company prepares for continued expansion in the coming months.

MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac virtualization and cloud services provider, today announced the launch of Orka Engine, the latest addition to its Orka product line. Orka Engine allows mobile app developers, DevOps professionals, QA testing teams, and IT Admins to build custom macOS virtual environments with control, flexibility, and efficiency powered by Mac resources in their own data center or a cloud environment.

Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, Inc., today announced the general availability of Citrix VDA for macOS, expanding their desktop virtualization solutions. MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac cloud services provider offering Mac cloud compute, is proud to support this launch with its industry-leading IaaS offering, optimized for Citrix VDA for macOS deployments in the cloud.

MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac cloud services provider offering Mac cloud compute, today announced the General Availability of Orka Desktop 3.0, a powerful, user-friendly tool that allows developers, testers, and macOS admins to create, test, and manage macOS virtual machines (VMs) on local Apple silicon-based computers. The new version of Orka Desktop is available today for free, easy to access, and includes support for macOS 15 Sequoia as both a Guest and Host OS.

MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac cloud services provider offering Mac cloud compute, virtualization solutions, and remote desktops, today unveiled Orka Desktop, a free, local macOS virtualization tool. Orka Desktop is a desktop virtualization program that allows you to create and manage macOS virtual machines locally with an easy-to-use GUI interface.

MacStadium, the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, today announced that it has obtained Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR) Level 1, meaning that MacStadium has publicly documented its compliance with CSA’s Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), and that it joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.

MacStadium, the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, today announced the launch of its online community to deepen the connections of application developers through knowledge sharing and collaboration.

MacStadium, the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, today announced the many pivotal initiatives and company successes over the last year as it prepares for future growth serving the Apple enterprise.

MacStadium, the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, today announced the addition of Kenneth Tacelli as the company’s next President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Tacelli succeeds co-founder Gregory McGraw, who has transitioned to Executive Chair of the MacStadium Board of Directors. Mr. McGraw recently announced his retirement after a successful twelve-year tenure building and leading the company.

MacStadium, the industry-leading cloud services provider offering infrastructure-as-a-service, virtualization solutions and remote desktops to enable macOS workloads, today unveiled Orka® 3.0, the most advanced version of its proprietary technology, Orka Platform. Powered by MacStadium, Orka (Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple) is the only virtualization layer available for Mac build infrastructure based on Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Kubernetes technologies.

MacStadium, the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, today announced the appointment of Jason Davis as chief product officer. Formerly vice president of product management at Sauce Labs, Davis spearheaded the strategy and execution of testing applications, implemented product-led growth tactics and optimized user acquisition, conversion and retention.

MacStadium, the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, today announced the addition of industry veteran Sherry Grote as head of global marketing. Grote is a seasoned executive with 25 years of experience in marketing strategy and demand generation, leading companies through strategic growth across diverse industries.

MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac private cloud and software-as-a-service provider enabling macOS workloads, today announced it has secured two patents: one for injection molded “helmets” providing keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) and precise power button control remotely, and one for a new rack shelving design with optimizing server density along with the KVM system.

MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac private cloud and software-as-a-service provider enabling macOS workloads, today announced Orka Workspace™ with Pulse, a new system for virtual macOS desktop delivery that enables high-definition audio and visual streaming on Orka Workspace™ virtual Mac desktops via any HTML5 supported browser.

MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac private cloud and software-as-a-service provider enabling macOS workloads, today announced new and existing customers can purchase a pre-packaged, self-service Orka environment directly from MacStadium’s website, enabling immediate use of their popular macOS CI automation tool.

MacStadium, an industry-leading Mac cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider enabling all macOS workloads, today announced its Orka® Platform is now available to purchase through MacStadium and AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac private cloud and software-as-a-service provider enabling all macOS workloads, today announced its Orka® Platform is the optimal choice for companies that must transition from VMware’s vSphere ESXi running macOS on last generation Intel-based Mac computers. Since VMware’s announcement in October that it will not make the jump into supporting Apple silicon-based machines, leading teams are switching from VMware for iOS and/or macOS app development to Orka Platform to support the newest versions of macOS and Xcode.

MacStadium, the industry-leading Mac private cloud and software-as-a-service provider enabling all macOS workloads, today announced the debut of Orka Workspace to enable high-performance, secure desktop access to cloud-hosted macOS environments — anytime, anywhere and by any device. The unveiling occurs during the 2022 Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) occurring from Sept. 27 through Sept. 29 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel.

MacStadium, an established cloud provider exclusively for Apple products that offers scalable and secure enterprise-class infrastructure-as-a-service for all workloads that require macOS, today announced the inaugural 2022 MacStadium User Conference that will occur on Sept. 20 at The Whitley hotel in Atlanta.