New MacStadium Orka Cluster speeds up remote Mac virtual machine builds

MacStadium’s new Orka Cluster 3.2 now makes it faster and easier to deploy virtual machines on its platform, with Scheduled Caching helping to prepare ahead and cut down deployment time.

MacStadium Orka

Launched on Tuesday, the Orka Cluster 3.2 is MacStadium’s attempt to reduce the amount of time its clients spend deploying virtual machines to its Mac cloud infrastructure. MacStadium offers cloud-based infrastructure using Macs, as well as on-demand virtual machines of macOS, for use by developers and engineers.

The long periods of time spinning the VMs up can be potentially costly to a company, especially in high quantities. Reducing the time or uncertainty of how long it takes, or even shifting elements to out-of-hours periods, could be beneficial to some teams.

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