Still shipping physical MacBooks to offshore developers? If you're already on Citrix, Mac virtual desktops can live inside the same environment your team manages today. Live demo: Wednesday May 6, 11am ET. bit.ly/4tLVXJn

Announcing MacStadium VDI. Mac virtual desktops provisioned from a golden image in minutes (not hours or days). Up to 2 VMs per physical Mac. Integrates with Citrix. Basically, Mac VDI that actually works like VDI. go.macstadium.com/macstadium-vdi

We're live at #MacADUK in 1 hour — Demo Stage, Studio Theatre — showing how @MacStadium turned bare metal into a full Mac VDI platform. Golden image provisioning in minutes. At scale. 📅 Today | 4:30–5:10 PM #MacVirtualization #AppleIT #VDI

Physical Macs don't scale. Provisioning is slow. Every device is a snowflake. At MacADUK next week we'll show you how you can provision Mac desktops from golden images in minutes, manage them centrally, and run Mac VDI the way Windows VDI already works. 🗓️ April 21 | ⏰️ 4:30 PM | 💻️ Demo Stage

Running Mac CI on Tart+Orchard and wondering what's next? Orka has been the enterprise Mac CI platform since before Tart existed. Docs are a good place to start. docs.macstadium.com/orka

Not all macOS remote desktop tools are built for the same buyer. Citrix is better for enterprise teams. Parsec works well for creative teams that need speed. NoMachine is for teams that prefer affordable, self-hosting. Read our full breakdown: bit.ly/4vtCWMT

The macOS VDI Access Tool Landscape: A Practical Buyer's Guide

Choosing the right macOS VDI access tool is only half the problem. This guide breaks down the most common remote desktop protocols, from Citrix to Apple Screen Sharing, so IT teams can build a…

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The Cirrus Labs team is joining OpenAI. They built Tart+Orchard. Big news for Mac CI teams who depend on it. We wrote up what we think it means: bit.ly/3O76245

Cirrus Labs is joining OpenAI: What this means for the future of Tart and Orchard

Cirrus Labs is joining OpenAI, and the tools many Mac CI/CD pipelines depend on are now heading toward open-source with no dedicated team behind them.

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Security reviews are where a lot of tools get stuck. Orka is built for the conversation with your InfoSec team: role-based access control with namespace isolation, full audit logs, SSO/SAML, and corporate identity integration out of the box. trust.macstadium.com

The Orka GitHub Actions integration just got smarter. v1.1.11 switches VM lifecycle management from SSH-driven to event-driven. Dropped SSH connection? Your job keeps running. Job finishes? The VM cleans itself up. Orphaned VMs? Auto-deleted. Less babysitting. More shipping. bit.ly/4siGRtk

50 years of Apple. They built the hardware, the OS, and the chip architecture that now dominates mobile. Billions of people build, work, and create on what they made. We make sure enterprises can do it at scale. Here's to 50 more. #Apple50

If your team is managing Mac CI/CD at scale, Orka was built specifically for you. Live demo coming up — we'll walk through Kubernetes-native scheduling, horizontal autoscaling, and automated VM lifecycle management for 100+ VM environments. 🗓️ Thursday at 11am EST — grab a spot: bit.ly/4lR4tDF

Live Orka Product Demo

Join us for this free webinar where we will show a live demo of Orka -- MacStadium's virtualization and orchestration platform for Mac infrastructure. We w...

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M4 Mac minis are backordered / waitlisted worldwide. But if you're running DevOps workloads — our M2.XL matches M4 Pro performance for CI/CD. Same build times. Available now. Don't wait. bit.ly/4lJ0XLv

Heading to MacAD.UK? Join MacStadium, @workbrew.bsky.social, @macadmins.org, and Remitech for a pre-conference happy hour. Drinks, retro games, zero slides. April 20 | Loading Bar Brighton | 6–9 PM RSVP: workbrew.com/events/macad...

If you've ever had a GitHub Actions runner die mid-job because SSH dropped, this one's for you. Orka's updated GitHub integration ties VM lifecycle to job events, not connection state. Cleaner resource management, automatic orphan cleanup, no more surprise VM sprawl. Full breakdown: bit.ly/4dgnL32

Why are companies still shipping Macs around the world? 📦 Lost devices. Security risks. Weeks of onboarding delay. There’s a better way: Mac VDI. See it live Mar 12 @ 11AM EST bit.ly/3MZfI01

Paired with cloud-hosted Mac VDI, Neo becomes the logical, local endpoint — users get the full Mac experience, compute and data stays in your data center where IT controls it. Read more about what we're watching with Neo: bit.ly/3OPXuyu

No big sales pitch. Just a live Orka demo next Thursday 5-March We'll spin up macOS VMs, walk through Kubernetes orchestration, show a real environment, and answer your technical questions live. buff.ly/BxQqSl7

Life360 moved from slow CIaaS to Orka. Result: faster builds, real control over VMs, and the ability to handle 4x more work per developer. Their mobile team doubled. Their pipeline kept up. Read how: macstadium.com/customers/li...

MacAD.UK Happy Hour 🍻 We're teaming up with the Mac Admin Foundation, @macstadium.com and Remitech for a games night happy hour ahead of MacAD.UK. Drinks and games on us 🎲🍺 RSVP: buff.ly/l5p7qEg

Here's how Lloyd's Banking Group boosted developer productivity with Orka: ✅ Clean, isolated macOS VMs ✅ No manual machine maintenance ✅ VM provisioning: 1 week to 30 mins

Get instant macOS access worldwide. 🌍 Citrix + MacStadium enable IT teams to deliver macOS virtual desktops securely and globally—without shipping delays or hardware management headaches. Join our live demo on 10/30 to see how you can get started. ⬇️

Here’s how ING’s iOS team turned slow, unreliable builds into fast, stable pipelines achieving 50% faster performance with Orka. ⬇️

Orka Desktop 3.1.0 is here—now with macOS 26 Tahoe support. 🙌 What’s new: ✔️ macOS 26 support + new OCI image format ✔️ Shared storage mounts via GUI for smoother file transfers ✔️ Host to guest clipboard sharing

“Apple is nowhere near the limits of Apple Silicon.” CIOs agree, with 73% running AI workloads on Mac as their top use case. Read the full article to learn more ⬇️ www.computerworld.com/article/4065...

Apple is nowhere near the limits of Apple Silicon

High computational performance with low energy consumption: seven words that define both Apple’s ecosystem and the needs of modern business.

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Wrap up Day 1 of #JNUC with Workbrew × @macstadium.com × Risotto 🍻 Drinks, bites, and great company - don’t miss it. 🎟️ RSVP here: buff.ly/73VkaGu

Orka + Amazon EKS = frictionless orchestration for macOS workloads. Run ephemeral macOS build/test workloads on EC2 Mac, directly from EKS. 💪

95% of CIOs are betting big on Apple, and IT teams are already feeling the shift. 💥 We asked 100+ CIOs about Apple’s growing role in enterprise IT, and here's what they had to say.

Still manually managing Macs in a closet for CI/CD? 🚫 See how you can spin up clean macOS VMs on demand with Orka. Join us for a live demo in October and Q&A with a Mac expert. Register today! ⬇️ bit.ly/42UEO4D

It's almost time for Jamf's JNUC 2025! 😎 If you’re attending JNUC, come say hello at booth 633 👋 We’d love to talk about how we can help your organization do more with Apple.

MacStadium is heading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025! 🎉 If you’re running macOS in your CI/CD or testing pipelines, we'd love to connect in ATL. We’ll show you how to scale Apple workloads in K8s + cloud-native environments.