Sphere 3D Corp (ANY)

[JB3729]

WOW, this is quite a statement from Erik Kelly -

Is Glassware the Sphere 3D equivalent of a hypervisor?

Kelly: It's a thin software layer, thinner than a traditional hypervisor. We call it a 'micro-visor.' Glassware handshakes with the necessary components, but doesn't interfere with the connection between an application and storage hardware. That's our secret sauce. It's a different architecture than VMware and Citrix use. We did benchmark testing at Dell World 2014 where we virtualized more than 7,000 concurrent applications running on a PowerEdge VRTX box. The same VRTX hardware running VMware was measured at 500 [concurrent applications]. That's a 12-1 ratio of economics with Glassware for building out cloud storage infrastructure. To give you an idea of where we're going with this, we filed a patent to put Glassware on a chipset. That would mean you no longer need [products such as] Citrix and VMware.
http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/news/4500246315/Sphere-3D-CEO-Virtualization-containers-will-be-face-of-our-company