Trango Virtual Processors Explained

Trango Virtual Processors
Type:	Subsidiary
Foundation:	2004
Location:	Grenoble, France
Key People:	Pierre Coulombeau, founder and COO, Fabrice Devaux, founder and CTO

Trango Virtual Processors was founded in 2004 by Pierre Coulombeau and Fabrice Devaux as a subsidiary of ELSYS Design group. Trango's purpose was to develop a real-time mobile hypervisor. It was acquired by VMware in October 2008.^[1]

Products

Trango developed a mobile hypervisor that supported ARM architectures (ARMv5 and ARMv6) and MIPS architectures, and could run Symbian OS, WinCE, and Linux mobile operating systems, and a supporting integrated development environment (IDE).

VMware rebranded Trango's product as the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, which was later renamed VMware Horizon Mobile.^{[2] [3]}

External links

• White Paper MIPS Technologies at www.mips.com
• SoCs can hold key to system security at EE Times

Notes and References

1. Web site: Keith. Ward. The Next Frontier: Mobile Phone Hypervisors. Virtualization review. 19 January 2013.
2. Web site: Jon. Brodkin. VMware acquires Trango, debuts mobile hypervisor. Network World. 19 January 2013.
3. Web site: Simon. Bramfitt. VMworld 2012 – Horizon Mobile (Application Management). The Virtualization Practice. 19 January 2013.