VMware MVP (Mobile Virtualization Platform)
Making Virtualization Mobile.
Consumers now manage bank accounts, make credit card payments, access email, browse the Internet and run hundreds of other applications on their phones. The evolution of the mobile phone from simple communication device to computation device poses a number of challenges and opportunities.
VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) paves the way for streamlined manageability, unlimited application flexibility and built-in security features on mobile computing devices. This thin layer of software is designed to run efficiently on low-power and low-memory devices.
Build User-Centered Mobile Computing
Mobile phones are becoming the most important device a consumer owns. With new applications being built daily by a vibrant developer community utilizing the rich operating system on these devices, a mobile phone user’s persona—applications, pictures, videos, music, emails, bank info, credit card information, PIM—is becoming richer and more valuable. We need to think very differently about phones – how we secure them, what applications we run on them, how we use them at home and work, and how we manage them.
Home / Work Convergence on the Same Device
Enterprises provide mobile phones to more employees these days because they can see the productivity benefits. Simultaneously, more employees are purchasing powerful personal phones and are frustrated by IT not allowing employee-owned devices to connect to corporate resources. Rather than carry two phones, employees are pressuring enterprises to support employee-owned mobile devices. But managing a wide variety of devices is complex both in cost and security.
With VMware, IT organizations can securely deploy a corporate persona alongside a private persona, enabling employees to carry a single mobile phone. Employees get freedom of choice in terms of device they can use while IT can reduce mobile hardware purchases.
Applications on the Go via Virtual Appliances
Consumers are depending on mobile applications more every day. With several mobile operating systems vying for market share, upgrading to a new phone and applications becomes a problem. Individuals want to access purchased applications and move them to new devices seamlessly, without being tied to a specific device.
To support the ‘build once, deploy everywhere’ paradigm, VMware introduced Virtual Appliances (or vApps), an application packaged with a small layer of the operating system (just enough OS, JeOS or juice) into one bundle, independent of the phone OS. An application can be developed once and packaged as a ready-to-run virtual machine, ready to run on any phone with a hypervisor. vApps run in complete isolation, protecting the stack that carriers care about, allowing multiple vApps on a single phone, each potentially with a different operating system. Development and testing costs are drastically reduced and consumers get the application flexibility they want.
Secure Personas on the Go
As a user’s phone persona becomes richer and more valuable, the ability to protect and migrate these personas becomes an important part of a purchasing decision. With a persona running in a virtual machine, MVP makes a user’s data and applications independent from the hardware. All the applications and data on the phone can be managed as a collection of files – copied, moved, deleted, backed-up and restored. With personas securely backed up into the cloud, users get on-demand access from a range of devices, making upgrades to a new phone virtually painless.
Consumers now manage bank accounts, make credit card payments, access email, browse the Internet and run hundreds of other applications on their phones. The evolution of the mobile phone from simple communication device to computation device poses a number of challenges and opportunities.
VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) paves the way for streamlined manageability, unlimited application flexibility and built-in security features on mobile computing devices. This thin layer of software is designed to run efficiently on low-power and low-memory devices.
Build User-Centered Mobile Computing
Mobile phones are becoming the most important device a consumer owns. With new applications being built daily by a vibrant developer community utilizing the rich operating system on these devices, a mobile phone user’s persona—applications, pictures, videos, music, emails, bank info, credit card information, PIM—is becoming richer and more valuable. We need to think very differently about phones – how we secure them, what applications we run on them, how we use them at home and work, and how we manage them.
Home / Work Convergence on the Same Device
Enterprises provide mobile phones to more employees these days because they can see the productivity benefits. Simultaneously, more employees are purchasing powerful personal phones and are frustrated by IT not allowing employee-owned devices to connect to corporate resources. Rather than carry two phones, employees are pressuring enterprises to support employee-owned mobile devices. But managing a wide variety of devices is complex both in cost and security.
With VMware, IT organizations can securely deploy a corporate persona alongside a private persona, enabling employees to carry a single mobile phone. Employees get freedom of choice in terms of device they can use while IT can reduce mobile hardware purchases.
Applications on the Go via Virtual Appliances
Consumers are depending on mobile applications more every day. With several mobile operating systems vying for market share, upgrading to a new phone and applications becomes a problem. Individuals want to access purchased applications and move them to new devices seamlessly, without being tied to a specific device.
To support the ‘build once, deploy everywhere’ paradigm, VMware introduced Virtual Appliances (or vApps), an application packaged with a small layer of the operating system (just enough OS, JeOS or juice) into one bundle, independent of the phone OS. An application can be developed once and packaged as a ready-to-run virtual machine, ready to run on any phone with a hypervisor. vApps run in complete isolation, protecting the stack that carriers care about, allowing multiple vApps on a single phone, each potentially with a different operating system. Development and testing costs are drastically reduced and consumers get the application flexibility they want.
Secure Personas on the Go
As a user’s phone persona becomes richer and more valuable, the ability to protect and migrate these personas becomes an important part of a purchasing decision. With a persona running in a virtual machine, MVP makes a user’s data and applications independent from the hardware. All the applications and data on the phone can be managed as a collection of files – copied, moved, deleted, backed-up and restored. With personas securely backed up into the cloud, users get on-demand access from a range of devices, making upgrades to a new phone virtually painless.
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