'Being acquired by Ivanti will help us take on big guns Microsoft and VMware' - MobileIron channel boss

Nima Green
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Brian Foster says the company, which was acquired three weeks ago, has new capabilities to meet expectations that 80 per cent of the global workforce does not want to return to the office fulltime

MobileIron's EMEA channel boss says the vendor's impending integration within fellow US security giant Ivanti will increase its partner's ability to take on much larger tech titans. Brian Foster says the acquisition will fill important gaps in the vendor's current portfolio to help in its ‘David v Goliath'-style fight with Microsoft and VMware; specifically it not having the capability to manage Windows on mobile devices. "We're still early on in terms of what I can publicly say about I...

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