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Mobile Virtual Environments: The Opportunity for Guest Applications and Operating Systems
Smith's Point Analytics, Jan 2012, Pages: 47
This report looks at the market for virtualization technology and the emerging trend of separating applications and operating systems from the underlying OS or hardware. Technologies such as hypervisors, secure application containers, thin client solutions, cloud application solutions, and application virtual machines are being used to run Android apps on non-Android devices and support secure BYOD solutions.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The explosive growth of mobile applications and waning battle between application ecosystems are creating a new reality in the mobile industry. Apple and Google have effectively prevailed in the platform war, leaving OEMs without access to these ecosystems at a significant disadvantage. Users are also demanding a wide choice of innovative applications on all their digital devices: smartphones used for work and personal use, tablets and e-books, in their cars and on their TVs.
OEMs need to provide Android apps to their customers but are hesitant to relinquishing control of their branded experience and services. Enterprises want to drive productivity by providing their employees access to slick consumer applications alongside secure enterprise apps on smartphones and tablets of their choice. Virtualization solutions can solve these challenges by creating environments that are independent of the underlying OS or hardware in which to run foreign applications and guest operating systems.
This report analyzes four virtualization technologies that all take different approaches and are designed to address notably different markets. These technologies include:
- Mobile hypervisors
- Secure application containers
- Thin client and cloud solutions
- Application virtual machines
Enterprises that are embracing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies are looking to virtualization solutions to protect enterprise data on employee owned devices. Over the past few years, mobile hypervisors that have been used to reduce hardware costs are now being repurposed to enable two segregated application operating systems on one device. Containerized application solutions, thin client and cloud solutions are enabling the separation of consumer and enterprise applications within the operating system protecting sensitive enterprise data.
The emergence of virtualization technologies to help manage BYOD policies will lead to new competition prompting important strategic decisions for established mobile enterprise software vendors. As this market shifts from managing devices to securing enterprise applications and data, mobile device management vendors and mobile enterprise application platform vendors will have to embrace emerging technologies to stay relevant. With promising technologies such as type 1 hypervisor based solutions still on the horizon, providers will have to weigh their current investments against their long term technical roadmap.
OEMs are deploying application virtual machines, or more specifically, the Devlik virtual machine on non-Android devices to run Android applications. This strategy allows OEMs to leverage the robust Android ecosystems without having to relinquish control of the user experience to Google. These devices will run Android applications side by side with Native and HTML5 applications in a seamless interface, increasing developer flexibility and driving innovation. We are forecasting over 508 million non-Android devices to ship in 2016 which will run Android applications. Beyond traditional mobile devices, Delvik virtual machines are being evaluated to run applications on in-vehicle infotainment
PRODUCTS MENTIONED
- ACL
- Alien Delvik
- Android
- Android Player
- Apple TV
- Codezero
- Delvik VM
- Divide
- Dynamics
- Google TV
- iOS
- iPad
- Java
- Limo/Tizen
- Meego
- Mobile Horizon
- Mobile Virtulization Layer
- OKL4
- Pocket Cloud
- Safezone
- Symbian
- Toggle
- vLogix Mobile
- VLX
- WebOS
- Windows Mobile
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