When we founded Wanova almost two years ago, we had collected a number of pain points that we knew to be true:

1) Desktop administrators have no way to centrally manage images or ensure compliance with burgeoning regulations and policies

2) Mobile users cause a constant headache to desktop administrators

3) End users (especially knowledge workers and road warriors) hate thin-clients because they can’t work offline and the user-experience is poor

4) End users (especially knowledge workers) want the freedom to install the applications they need to be productive (and have fun)

5) Remote users with a laptop or desktop problem had to go through a painful diagnostic process, at the end of which their PC was re-imaged anyway

We engineered Wanova Mirage to address these – and many other – challenges faced by today’s distributed enterprises.

And today, we reached a major milestone. We are shipping the first ever product in the market that truly bridges the gap between desktop centralization and end-user experience. Our novel architecture is a breakthrough solution to a long-standing customer pain, and it took 2 years of hard work to overcome the high technology barrier associated with this breakthrough.

I’d like to take a moment to reflect on what it’s taken to get to this point:

- Number of man hours to develop and QA Mirage: 120,000

- Number of years of experience in R&D: 453

- Number of cups of coffee consumed by R&D in the past 2 years: 35,700

- Average hours of sleep per engineer per night: 4

I offer my sincere congratulations to our exceptional development, QA and product management teams for their monumental achievement, and my gratitude to our beta customers for their invaluable feedback and insights. This is indeed a day to celebrate! (and then, onward to V2.0 !)