This morning, VMware announced that they have acquired Trango (www.trango-vp.com ). Trango has developed thin, secure, customizable hypervisors for ARM- and MIPS-based devices that target embedded device markets such as mobile phones, point of sale systems, and network infrastructure equipment. You can read the full press release here .
Amazing stuff. I can imagine a cell phone with a VM for my Work phone and one for my Home phone all on the same device. Better yet, think about what could happen when you get a new phone, save the VM to a microSD card and take the microSD and plug it into your new phone and all of your numbers and config (and mobile OS) go with it.
Sounds almost too far fetched to believe, but then again, so was vMotion the first time I heard it.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I also wanted to add this link to VMware’s ideas of where it will go:
http://www.vmware.com/technology/mobile/
November 11th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Yup. Absolutely. Freedom indeed but if uncontrolled I also foresee another security mayhem in offing. copy corporate data (Whatever corporate will mean in the coming future) and put it on the ftp site somewhere or maybe on one of those cloud providers and then download it to your new cell phone.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:37 am
@Tarry Singh
Don’t we have that challenge today?