AirWatch

VMware AirWatch
Industry Enterprise mobility management software
Founded 2003 (2003) in Atlanta, USA
Founder John Marshall
Headquarters Atlanta, USA
Key people
 Alan Dabbiere
Total assets $1.181B
Number of employees
 2,300
Parent VMware
Website www.air-watch.com

VMware AirWatch is an Atlanta-based provider of enterprise mobility management (EMM) software and standalone management systems for content, applications and email.

In July 2013, the company acquired Motorola Solutions's MSP (Mobility Services Platform) and extended management capabilities to ruggedized devices.[1]

History

Airwatch headquarters in Sandy Springs, Georgia

AirWatch was founded in 2003 as Wandering WiFi by John Marshall, who served as president and CEO. Since 2006 Alan Dabbiere was the chairman.[2][3] In February 2013, AirWatch received its first round of funding, a $200 million investment from Insight Venture Partners and Accel.[4] On February 24, 2014 VMware acquired AirWatch for approximately $1.181B in cash and approximately $364M of installment payments and assumed unvested equity. [5] As of 2016 AirWatch became fully integrated into VMware and completely re-branded itself as VMware AirWatch.

Products

AirWatch has over 16,000 customers in 150 countries, and supports Android, Apple iOS, Apple TV, BlackBerry, Chrome OS, Mac OS X, Symbian, Tizen, and Windows platforms.[6] Its product and solutions offerings include:

Enterprise mobility management

Content collaboration

References

  1. ↑ Kim, Kathy. "AirWatch Acquires Motorola's Mobility Services Platform". CRN. UBM. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Rasmussen, Patty. "Power Players: Technology Ambassador". Georgia Trend Magazine. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  3. ↑ Hockenson, Lauren. "You're no longer a startup...so now what?". The Next Web. The Next Web, Inc. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  4. ↑ Ho, Victoria. "AirWatch Gets $200 Million Series A Funding". TechCrunch. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  5. ↑ Somashekhar, Paple. "VMware Completes Acquisition of AirWatch".
  6. ↑ http://www.air-watch.com/solutions/
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