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How hypervisors help integrate portable devices into the office environment

26 April 2011

http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-technology/how-hypervisors-help-integrate-portable-devices-into-the-office-environment/33374/

Increasingly, people are using smartphones and tablets for more than business calls: video conferencing, email, document editing, storage and oral presentations are just a few popular applications. This movement towards portable devices is a direct result of the trend towards enterprise mobility, with distributed workforces and portable workspaces.

Paravirtualization has proven prohibitively expensive and slow to market. The great news is that many current generation smartphones and tablets support ARM's TrustZone technology that provides a form of high speed virtualisation. In addition, ARM's Virtualization Extensions, a complete hypervisor mode for mobile ARM applications processors, is due out in apps processors in 2012 and will further improve the platform for hypervisors.

In other words, the future of 'Bring Your Own' is bright.

Author
David Kleidermacher
David Kleidermacher is Green Hills Software's chief technology officer.