Written by Simon Bramfitt!
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Simon Bramfitt
Founder and Principal Analyst, Entelechy Associates
Simon Bramfitt is the founder and principal analyst at Entelechy Associates where he covers application delivery, desktop management and virtualization technologies. Bramfitt works extensively with end-user organizations, advising them on architecture and best practices for both private cloud and desktop transformation initiatives, and with technology startups. He has worked with application delivery and endpoint management technologies for over 25 years and has long been recognized as a thought leader in the virtualization space. Prior to founding Entelechy Associates, he covered desktop virtualization at Burton Group and Gartner and was a senior architect at Kaiser Permanente.
This is what he wrote about Glassware:
One possible opportunity here lies with Toronto-based Sphere 3D and Glassware. I had the opportunity for a brief look at Glassware last week, and I hope to be able to return for a more detailed assessment in the near future. In many respects, Glassware is to XenApp as VDI in a Box is to XenDesktop: a fresh approach to virtual applications, built from the ground up with an emphasis on the hypervisor as a means of achieving virtualization, rather than as a platform on which to run multiple operating system instances.
Glassware’s promise is not just that it is a legacy-free interpretation of conventional terminal services technology, but that it can take this approach to deliver more than just Windows applications. Demonstrating seamless delivery of Windows x86 applications alongside Android and Fortran apps on iPad is going to take more than one brief introduction to come to grips with. Nevertheless, if execution is as effective as the promise, this could be a technology to keep a close eye on.
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