Motorola, Softbank Sign On for VMware Horizon Mobile
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has confirmed that Motorola will ship smartphones in Japan sporting the virtualization kingpin’s Horizon Mobile service run through wireless carrier Softbank Telecom as a managed cloud service, available for trials starting Dec.
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has confirmed that Motorola will ship smartphones in Japan sporting the virtualization kingpin’s Horizon Mobile service run through wireless carrier Softbank Telecom as a managed cloud service, available for trials starting Dec. 10, according to a VMware blog post.
The Horizon Mobile service, formerly called Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP), is VMware’s answer to BYOD, or technology enabling employers to accommodate workers bringing their own devices to the workplace yet still securing confidential corporate data on them. The solution, initially built for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) devices (first introduced at VMworld 2011) but now acclimated to Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iOS, allows privacy for personal apps and data while maintaining corporate information separate. LG and Samsung already have mobile phones running the Horizon Mobile platform.
Motorola’s Razr 201M smartphone will be the first such device in Japan to use VMware’s virtualization technology to enable “enterprises to embrace BYOD without compromising usability or security and manageability of the corporate content (apps and data),” wrote Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMware chief technology officer (CTO) in a blog post.
Horizon Mobile not only deals with BYOD but also the fact that users are downloading more apps onto their smartphones and tablets than ever before, said Krishnamurti.