Mobile Meets the Enterprise Cloud: MobileIron's Innovative Virtual ...

MobileIron, a company dedicated to making smartphones enterprise-ready, today announced the launch of the MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform, the first solution to combine data-driven smartphone management with real-time wireless cost control. The company also announced new customer wins and partnerships.

Enterprise data is moving to the smartphone. Wireless costs are skyrocketing. Smartphones have become a risky blind spot for many organizations. MobileIron’s patent-pending data virtualization technology is a fundamentally new approach to enterprise mobility. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform creates a central view of smartphone content, activity, and applications in the data center to give IT and end-users insight into usage, and control over security and cost.

Key features of the MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform include:

* Security, device, and application management
* Enterprise data boundary for employee-owned smartphones
* Real-time usage alerts for roaming and cost control
* Operator service quality monitoring
* MyPhone@Work end-user services

With these services, organizations can:

* Get smartphone operations under control quickly and securely
* Cut enterprise wireless bills by up to 20 percent
* Drive user adoption and productivity through phone choice and services like the enterprise app store

The MobileIron solution provides a six to twelve month payback and is sold as an easy-to-install appliance that plugs into a company’s IT infrastructure. The platform is up and running in less than an hour.

Customers using the MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform include:

* Fenwick & West: Fenwick & West is one of the top technology and life sciences law firms in the country. “Smartphones will become more important to our business than laptops,” says Matt Kesner, CTO. “MobileIron’s virtual data architecture gives me the insight I need to make sure we’re in charge, not the carrier.”
* Windsor Foods: Stephan Henze, VP Information Technology, runs one of the most efficient IT operations in the food industry. He views mobility as strategic but realizes it brings unpredictable complexity and cost. “MobileIron lets us do what we need today, like asset management and smartphone troubleshooting, but also future-proofs our mobile strategy for tomorrow.”

In addition, MobileIron announced partnerships today with six leading mobility integrators:

* Cellular Optimization
* Info Plus International
* Invisible IT
* Mission Critical Wireless
* Mobility Partners
* Unwired Revolution

“MobileIron’s technology solves multiple issues for our customers,” says Dan Croft, President & CEO of Mission Critical Wireless. “MobileIron’s unique virtual phone data architecture expands the set of services we can offer to help our enterprise customers aggressively take control of their mobile operations and costs.”

“We spent the last 18 months working with enterprises to understand the smartphone challenges they face,” says Bob Tinker, CEO of MobileIron. “There is tremendous pressure on IT to keep up with user demand while containing costs. MobileIron’s innovative platform gives CIOs the confidence to say ‘yes’ to mobility without sacrificing either data security or their expense line.”

MobileIron supports BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile smartphones today, with Symbian and Android coming soon.

Original Article - GNT