Welcome to VMI Academy. I'm Max and today we are answering the fundamental question: What is virtual mobile infrastructure? To understand VMI we first have to look at the traditional tools: Mobile Device Management and Mobile Application Management While these tools are different, they share the same fatal flaw. They both rely on storing data on the physical device.
Whether you manage the whole phone or just the app, the sensitive file is still sitting in the user's pocket. This creates a massive attack surface. If that device is lost, stolen, or compromised by malware, your data is exposed. MDM policies can't stop a physical breach if the data is already there.
Enter VMI, virtual mobile infrastructure.
VMI flips this model upside down. Instead of managing data on the endpoint, we move the entire mobile workspace to the secure cloud. Think of it like streaming a movie. When you watch Netflix, you aren't downloading the video file to your phone.
You are just streaming pixels. VMI works virtually the same way. The operating system, the apps, and the data live in a secure data center. Your physical phone is just a window and you're interacting with the workspace remotely, which means zero data is ever stored on the device.
Lost your phone? It doesn't matter because the data was never there to begin with. This solves the bring your own device conflict instantly. For the user, it ensures one hundred percent privacy because IT can't see your personal photos. And for the enterprise it guarantees security and compliance with standards like HIPAA and CMMC because the data never leaves the secure boundary. This is why organizations choose Hypori.
We don't just manage the risk, we eliminate the data from the device entirely. In our next lesson, we'll break down the evolution of mobility and why the agent based model is becoming obsolete.
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