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timorr

05/14/15 5:08 PM

#24648 RE: Vio1ist #24646

Nice article !
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ChairmanoftheBored

05/14/15 5:34 PM

#24650 RE: Vio1ist #24646

Very nice, thanks for posting!
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donkschmonk

05/14/15 6:37 PM

#24652 RE: Vio1ist #24646

Nice! Very clear and to the point. I guess our coming out party has started! :-)
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Franz1969

05/14/15 6:45 PM

#24653 RE: Vio1ist #24646

Sphere 3D CEO: Virtualization containers will be 'face of our company'

http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/news/4500246315/Sphere-3D-CEO-Virtualization-containers-will-be-face-of-our-company

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.

Holy Frijoles.....
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JB3729

05/14/15 6:47 PM

#24654 RE: Vio1ist #24646

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