Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

[ral4]

The number of concurrent sessions is interesting because the higher the density the lower the TCO, and thus a competitive advantage.

This was from Sphere's first press release in 2010

The Ralii Server Software, deployed on an IBM platform, has the ability to maintain multiple emulations of various chip sets simultaneously while continuing to provide 1000’s of concurrent connections to those emulated chips

It was a shame Simon Bramfitt was unable to test concurrent sessions because Login VSI does not work with Glassware's software design. Of course some are saying this is a lot of BS, and until there is third party testing we need to take Sphere's claim at face value. Interesting nonetheless :)

http://sphere3d.com/news-press-releases/Sphere_News_RaliiServer_15_12_2010.pdf

Sphere 3D claims that a single 2U Glassware server can deliver as many as 500 concurrent sessions. This is higher than I would expect for a similarly configured server running raw RDSH sessions. However, I was unable to do any scalability testing on the sandbox. Glassware’s microvisor-based segmentation of user processes and application installation mechanism meant that I was unable to use Login VSI, the de facto standard for benchmarking hosted apps and desktops, to compare Glassware’s performance with that of other, more conventional RDSH solutions.