VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced plans to bring virtualization and its many proven benefits to mobile phones through the new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). Built on innovative technology acquired from Trango Virtual Processors in October 2008, VMware MVP will help handset vendors reduce development time and get mobile phones with value-added services to market faster. In addition, end users will benefit by being able to run multiple profiles – for example, one for personal use and one for work use – on the same phone.
So what is it these guy actually do, or better said what will VMware be doing?
VMware MVP is a thin layer of software that will be embedded on a mobile phone that decouples the applications and data from the underlying hardware. It will be optimized to run efficiently on low-power-consuming and memory-constrained mobile phones. The MVP is planned to enable handset vendors to bring phones to market faster and make them easier to manage.
I am very interested in understanding the use cases for this acquisition.
I understand that handset vendors will be able to greatly increase their time-to-market with an embedded hypervisor and I assume this is due to the fact that vendors will only have to code for the hypervisor and will no longer have to worry about the HW platform itself.
What other use cases are there? This is exciting news…