Enterprise mobility startup MobileSpaces has launched its 2.0 iteration, which claims to be the first mobile security software to support iOS 7.
The latest program combined iOS 7 functionality with Android app virtualisation technology, leading to a BYOD workspace that supports any app.
iOS 7 “rounds out the product”, according to CEO David Goldschlag.
“Enterprises were telling us that [they] want to manage their apps, and they want to embrace bring your own device,” Goldschlag tells Enterprise Apps Tech in a call. “They want to choose apps for the enterprise; the enterprise wants to choose the apps they need; and we want to let the employee choose the device that he wants.
“iOS 7 provides us with the capabilities to have a unified policy system across Android and iOS,” he adds.
The overall company philosophy is one of creating an ‘app-agnostic’ workspace, which Goldschlag described as “the Holy Grail” for end users and enterprise.
Goldschlag, formerly head of mobile at McAfee, founded MobileSpaces alongside Yoav Weiss in 2011 based on his conversations with customers at the major security provider.
“All my customers at McAfee were telling me that MDM was not the right solution,” Goldschlag says. “They didn’t want to manage the device.
“If you’re using MDM, then you’re controlling the business and personal data. That’s too intrusive, and you’re not preventing data leakage. Data from the enterprise can get to the device, and then go out to the Internet, and you haven’t protected the information.
“So MDM wasn’t the right solution, and Good Technology, which gave a container, [and] strong control for enterprise apps within the container, only worked for email, calendar, browser and Office.”
Goldschlag tells of the excitement at finding what he saw as the missing piece of the jigsaw. “The magic in the technology [was] there was no need to rewrite, or modify, or redistribute any applications – we took all the friction out of it.
“I tested this idea on customers when I was at McAfee,” he continues. “Would you buy a solution that was app agnostic? You put an app in with truly no licensing, no work – it’s just like deploying the app from the public stores.
“The answer was: that’s the Holy Grail. Perfect.”
It sounds like a very sound footing for a company to build itself upon. And the two co-founders aren’t the only ones with that idea, either.
Last month MobileSpaces returned from its second round of funding, to the tune of $8.6 million (£5.5m) from Marker LLC and Accel Partners. Series A funding, again from Accel, arrived last March.
Goldschlag explains that this funding will help beef up MobileSpaces’ commercial arm.
“We were well along the path to having a complete product for solving the need of the enterprise to choose any app,” he notes.
“The proceeds from this will be used to further product development, but mainly for scaling sales and marketing.
“We’ve been building up the commercial half of the company.”
With the idea that iOS 7 completes the company’s vision, thoughts of course turn to what Cupertino’s latest OS means for the enterprise.
Goldschlag noted that 7 was “the most important enterprise capability Apple has released” since anything post iOS4, and that it was aligned with MobileSpaces’ app agnostic vision; controlling data sharing through enterprise apps and deleting enterprise data in apps.
Richard Absalom, consumer impact technology analyst at Ovum noted last month that the latest iteration of iOS will “demonstrate that [Apple] is getting serious about selling direct to the enterprise – and not just through the BYOD channel.”
What do you think? How do you see other enterprise vendors playing iOS 7?
*http://www.appstechnews.com/news/2013/sep/02/mobilespaces-ceo-david-goldschlag-ios-7-and-mobilitys-holy-grail/
source : http://techie.id1945.com/2013/09/mobilespaces-ceo-david-goldschlag-on-ios-7-and-mobilitys-holy-grail/
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