Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

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These are not identical and very much different.

Glassware focuses on virtualizing client applications that are physically installed on a user's device. If the application requires middleware on distributed architecture (ie. making calls to a database or services API), Glassware does not virtualize this.

IBM smartcloud orchestrator focuses on provisioning IT infrastructure (ie. including middleware) within private/public/hybrid clouds. For example, a Managed Services Provider may want to template out the provisioning of an infrastructure to support an enterprise application like SharePoint, PeopleSoft, etc. This would require several web front end servers, application servers, sql servers, network segmentation, application configs, service accounts, etc. Smartcloud orchestrator would take this and automatically provision this within the cloud.

In summary, these two products focus on different things. Glassware and SmartCloud Orchestrator are not competing products.