After servers, storage and workstations, VMware wants to bring virtualization onto mobile phones. It uses the technology of Grenoble Trango Virtual Processors bought in October.
VMware's decision to explore a new area of virtualization, that of mobile phones. To do this, he simply bought the company Grenoble Trango Virtual Processors, specializing in this type of technology. VMware market know-how in his new Trango supervise MVP (Mobile Virtual Platform). Developed primarily for processors ARM (architectures 4, 5 and 6) and MIPS (MIPS32 and 64), it fits perfectly with constraints of mobile low energy consumption and limited internal memory.
Beyond the technical performance would be to run Windows Mobile on a Symbian phone, for example, virtualization has a practical usefulness in many societies where employees make personal use of their phone or vice versa. IT departments could use MVP to create two profiles: one purely professional business applications of the company and the level of security needed to protect the corporate network and the other made available to the employee for a purpose Private own risk (including downloading games and ringtones). Virtualization playing the role some kinds of insulation between the two.
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