MobileIron Nominated for GSMA Award for Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Solution

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MobileIron (www.mobileiron.com), the innovator in mobile device management and security, today announced that the company has been nominated for GSMA's 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards in the Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Solution category. The award, which will be announced at the Mobile World Conference on February 15, recognises innovators that deliver best in class mobile products and solutions to the enterprise. MobileIron was shortlisted for being the first company to deliver a complete enterprise management and security solution for iPhones and iPads.

"Our congratulations go to all the nominees in this year's Global Mobile Awards," said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA. "To get down to just 115 nominees across 10 categories, from more than 470 high calibre entries, certainly presented our judges with a tough challenge this year.  It is a great achievement to be shortlisted among such a high quality field of entrants and we eagerly anticipate the announcement of the winners on Tuesday 15th February 2011 at the Mobile World Congress and look forward to showcasing another great year of innovation for the mobile industry."  

"It's an honour to be nominated for the Global Mobile Award," said Bob Tinker, CEO, MobileIron. "It's not only a recognition of MobileIron but also of the importance of enterprise users. While much of the industry focuses on consumer mobility, we believe that mobile users are both consumers and workers.  We've helped Global 2000 customers embrace new mobile platforms such as iPhone, iPad and Android for the benefit of their users and their businesses. The introduction of new tablets and devices this year, as well as the growth of mobile enterprise apps, is going to keep things moving fast and furious and we look forward to continuing to work with our customers to solve their enterprise mobility challenges."

The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform (VSP) enables enterprises to:

• Support and secure devices with any mobile operating system including iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian;
• Control mobile access to key network resources and applications such as corporate email
• Do remote lock and wipe of devices;
• Control mobile costs through real-time alerts; and
• Set up their own internal enterprise app stores.

About MobileIron

MobileIron is solving the problems CIOs face as business data and applications move to smart phones and tablets. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform is the first solution to give IT and users real-time intelligence and control over mobile content, activity, and apps in order to secure the enterprise, reduce wireless cost, and improve the mobile user experience. For more information, please visit www.mobileiron.com.

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