After VDI there comes VMI, the virtual mobile infrastructure

For example, a company may develop a mobile version based on Android for a corporate application that would run in a virtual Android instance in the data center. Users could access that app from any device: Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone… The company would only have to develop and give support to an application on a single platform (Android in this case), while users could use any mobile device.

VMI has the same advantages of VDI: it is really useful for separating work and personal environments on one device. The corporate environment consists of a client application that connects to the remote application. If an employee leaves, the company only has to block access to the remote system and the information is no longer available to that user.

There are also advantages in terms of security, since neither the corporate applications nor the data reside on the client device. Thus, the problems that exist when a worker loses his device are removed. In addition, you can prevent in a much more simple way that users forward corporate emails and data to personal accounts, since everything is on a virtual machine within a controlled data center.

For the time being, the concept of VMI is quite new, but as the expert Brian Madden predicts in his article on this topic, in a few years VMI could form part of the enterprise mobility strategy of most companies.