{"id":49078,"date":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/5-things-mobile-virtualization-will-do\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:48:20","slug":"5-things-mobile-virtualization-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/2\/30987\/technology-trends\/virtualization\/5-things-mobile-virtualization-will-do","title":{"rendered":"5 Things Mobile Virtualization Will Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mobile virtualization<\/a> is one of the biggest new words in the IT lexicon. Essentially, this design concept brings the benefits of enterprise hardware virtualization<\/a> to the portable mobile phone. But what does mobile virtualization do, really, and why are people so excited about it?<\/p>\n

With mobile virtualization, smartphone makers can allow for multiple operating systems to run on one device. <\/p>\n

Rather than forcing all design elements to interact with the "bare metal<\/a> hardware" and a single, resident operating system, virtualization means that software designers can port external platforms onto a device in much more flexible ways. In a sense, mobile virtualization can split one smart phone into two or more smartphones, or separate some of the core processes that a device handles. It can allow for two very different operating systems to reside on that single hardware piece, individually and completely separate from each other.<\/p>\n

Here are five of the big things that mobile virtualization is promising for actual device users and enterprise administrators.<\/p>\n

Stopping Security People From Having Fits<\/span><\/h2>\n

Security administrators at companies have been trying to fix the "BYOD problem" for years.<\/p>\n

BYOD or "Bring Your Own Device"<\/a> is a system in which a company allows employees to use personal smartphones and mobile devices for work. This is a win-win in a lot of ways -companies don’t have to assign specific work devices, and employees don’t have to carry a work phone and a personal phone. But it’s also raised huge security issues, especially in sensitive fields like health care and finance. For example, what if somebody loses a personal phone that has corporate data on it? What if somebody outside of the company sees sensitive data, because it’s on the personal phone display?<\/p>\n

Mobile virtualization puts many of these fears to rest. The company’s data can be housed on a separate operating system with separate security architecture<\/a>. Then the phone holder can tap, gesture and scroll away, and access all of the fun games and other stuff on his or her personal phone, without jeopardizing trade secrets or client information.<\/p>\n

Letting Your Toddler Play With Your Phone Safely<\/span><\/h2>\n

For working parents, BYOD has also meant there is a very fine line between communicating digitally on the job, and raising a family. Many of us have seen the interesting TV commercial where a baby orders hundreds of sets of encyclopedias by banging away on mom or dad’s tablet. But although it’s a cute idea, it’s also very realistic. Dual-use smart phones for working parents create all kinds of awkward situations like these:<\/p>\n