BYOD gets attention at Mobile World Congress

Helping IT shops deal with the security and management of consumer smartphones and tablets in the workplace will be a big theme at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week. Samsung and Red Bend Software jointly announced Monday that they will conduct enterprise trials of a dual-persona version of the Galaxy S III smartphone starting in the second quarter. Details of the trials weren’t available, but the dual persona Galaxy S III will be demonstrated at MWC. The Galaxy will run two separate Android OSesâ€"one for personal use, the other for business use. Red Bend relies on a type 1 mobile hypervisor that runs directly on top of the hardware, with each operating system completely isolated from the other. BlackBerry recently announced two new smartphonesâ€"the Z10 and the Q10â€"that will also have work and personal data separated, but on a single version of the BlackBerry 10 OS. BlackBerry calls the dual-persona software Balance, and requires corporations to install BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 software on a firewall protected server to manage many of Balance’s features.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here