interesting to read how the company describes their technology in the recent f-4/a filings on page 206 and 207
here it is presented in point form
- Sphere 3D is a technology company that delivers an application virtualization platform aimed at extending the life of software indefinitely.
- Sphere 3D’s technology enhances the user experience of both legacy and current applications and empowers users to gain access to these applications from devices of their choosing.
- Over the last five years, Sphere 3D has designed a proprietary platform, namely Glassware 2.0™, for the delivery of applications from a server-based computing architecture.
- Through the creation of Glassware 2.0, software is made available from a central location irrespective of the device that is accessing the software.
- Legacy software can be run using Glassware even if the operating system and the machine upon which it is run on is no longer sold or supported.
- Software publishers, who invest millions of dollars to write software code, can be assured that their software can be utilized for as long as it is required.
- With Glassware 2.0, new software released by publishers will be driven by new feature sets rather than the next release of the original operating system (“OS”) upon which the software was written.
- Sphere 3D has taken a unique approach in that it has built its technology platform without the use of a hypervisor and instead has designed its own microvisor.
- This required Sphere 3D to design Glassware 2.0 without resort to layers of OS programming code. With the removal of the OS, Glassware 2.0 did not connect to hardware so additional code was written to access that hardware directly.
- Glassware 2.0 has a series of different emulators within its design so that any device can access a wide array of applications that sit on top of Glassware 2.0.
- This process is fundamentally different from other software that approximates the feature sets which management believes results in a quantum leap in functionality and a significant decrease in cost.
- One of the additional benefits of this approach is the ability to deliver multiple application sessions on either a single server or through clusters of servers without the requirement to deliver complete virtual desktop Infrastructure technology.
- Through Glassware 2.0™, the process for “porting” and “publishing” applications is streamlined to the point that it is practically automated, requiring very little administration input.
- Sphere 3D’s technology eliminates the complexity associated with planning, implementation, licensing and support of virtualization and Cloud migration while expanding the ecosystem of applications available to users.
- Additionally, Glassware 2.0™ architecture and unique “application only” virtualization, coupled with complementary software and hardware designs from its recent acquisition of the VDI technology of V3 Systems (as described below), enables Sphere 3D and its partners to deliver flexibility within the industry and a wide array of deployment options.
