This week, the largest mobile lounge, Mobile World Congress, held again in Barcelona. Although mostly focused on cellular infrastructure solutions, the last two years have seen the growth in end-user computing. Part of it is because many infrastructure vendors have also expanded in this direction. Wireless Enterprise has become a part of the show and announcements are usually made this week. Probably the two biggest EUC for this week has been the evolution of Samsung Knox platform and acquiring BoxTone by Good Technology.
For the first, Citrix is a longtime partner of Samsung and has been working with them over the last year to support Knox as it evolved. Citrix announced a Knox support in Q4 2013, but demand from end users has been slow. A lot of interest, but not much in adoption. Part of this is because Knox focuses only on some Samsung Android phones, and even Citrix sees iOS as the platform adopted a business number. This is now changing, with Android being accepted and part of the company policy. Samsung has cleared some confusion around Knox and safe changing SAFE in "Knox Standard" and Knox container "Knox Prime." Changing the way applications work in Knox supporting work profiles and personnel will also go a long way in interesting too, which was also announced this week. Less than issues around recoding applications and altering is always a good thing.
on the second front, good Technology announced its plan on acquisition of BoxTone. the two had been in a partnership for about a year. Good necessary platform database management BoxTone and advanced set of analysis. It is another example of MDM company increasing its scope, more to the platform set base value against the expansion of functionality. This is similar to the latest MDM acquisition, VMware made in January.
on January 22, VMware announced that AirWatch MDM she bought provider for about $ 1.5 billion. It was widely known that looked VMware technology providers to complement its offering to mobile end users. The surprise was that he went after AirWatch against Good Technology and MobileIron two other leaders who were part of the speculation. No doubt this is a good, but expensive acquisition for VMware. Reuters reported current revenues of $ 75 million to AirWatch here. VMware gets a leading global provider of telecommunications channel and a large number of sales people in their team, but most of those who are new to AirWatch last year and new mobility. It will also integrate both technology and employees to succeed. The VMware news release can be found here.
All mobility and MDM providers AirWatch seen as one of the biggest competitors, it deals in the past two years, and has experienced solid growth. A publication has covered a part of it here already. There is less than a year, AirWatch had obtained its first round of funding of $ 225, so it was not in a hurry because of financial difficulties. But the enterprise mobility market is growing rapidly and VMware was not part of this discussion. He struggled with numerous mobile technologies, non-integrated solution with a type of hypervisor owner for Android and no real controls on iOS. He was seeing other companies and competitors develop its mobile solutions and increase the presence and awareness not only mobile, but in other enterprise technologies that contribute to a solution. For example, MDM and mobile technologies lead to other areas and sales, including collaboration, networking, file sharing, storage, servers, etc. So it is an important basis for developing other technology products and increasingly driven by mobility. VMware should be considered as an important supplier in this space and wants a piece of that income. As we all
The corporate companies want a turnkey solution for business class from a known supplier that they can feel sure will be around next year, where the evolution of MDM EMM (mobility management. from the company). There is a rapidly growing market for global solutions, and there is plenty of room to succeed here. VMware, IBM (which recently acquired Fiberlink MaaS360) and acquisitions good validates both the importance of enterprise mobility and a solutions-oriented strategy, and that large firms are the engine of the way forward . But a mobile enterprise solution is a great puzzle that is still really has successfully completed. New pieces appear all the time. The most recent entries have taken an important step in the right direction in terms of their offers. The more complex the deeper need for EMM is what sells today and in the future.
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