Simple, Scalable, and Workload Optimized appliances bring complete cloud to everyone from Small and Medium sized Businesses (SMB) to Large Enterprise customers
SAN JOSE, CA – February 22, 2016 – Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ: ANY), a containerization, virtualization and data management solutions provider, today announced its next generation of V3 virtual application and desktop solutions. Three new appliance families that come pre-provisioned with Sphere 3D’s Desktop Cloud Orchestrator™ (“DCO”) software take aim at making VDI accessible to business and branch offices of any size. The new families converge storage, server and virtualization services to create unprecedented scale-out and up appliances for VDI use in all three cloud models: Private, Public and Hybrid. The new families are in three categories: V3 Smart Nodes for large centralized enterprises; V3 End User Computing (EUC) Nodes for decentralized and Remote Office, Branch Office (ROBO) locations; and V3 Flex Nodes for smaller businesses and branch locations, even locations with as few as ten users.
“Our new family of appliances expands our V3 platform to address the requirements of businesses today and the many ways that their employees use technology,” said Peter Bookman, Global Strategist at Sphere 3D. “In the real world we see businesses that are distributed into many locations of differing sizes and with workers who have vastly different technology needs. The work we have done to enhance our DCO software has enabled us to create new architectures for VDI. With complementary purpose built and workload optimized appliances, businesses can select the most appropriate V3 appliance, or group of appliances, for each location to support the appropriate number and type of workers. This new approach to VDI is the physical expression of our vision for a complete cloud architecture, which includes the distributed hybrid cloud for virtual desktops, virtual applications and data storage.”
New capabilities in the V3 product families include:
Introducing the next-generation V3 Product Families for the Complete Cloud:
All three of these new product families leverage Sphere 3D’s DCO software along with flexible appliance configurations to enable single node appliance installations that can address any size or type of workload, regardless of location. This new drop in appliance approach is simple to install and manage yet can scale from tens to 10,000s of users. For more information on the V3 workload optimized architecture and family of products please visit: the V3 Workload Optimized Web Page and the V3 Appliance Features Web Page
About Sphere 3D
Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ: ANY) delivers containerization and virtualization technologies along with data management products that enable workload-optimized solutions. We achieve this through a combination of containerized applications, virtual desktops, virtual storage and physical hyper-converged platforms. Sphere 3D’s value proposition is simple and direct—we allow organizations to deploy a combination of public, private or hybrid cloud strategies while backing them up with state of the art storage solutions. Sphere 3D, along with its wholly-owned subsidiaries Overland Storage and Tandberg Data, has a strong portfolio of brands including Glassware 2.0™, SnapCLOUD™, SnapScale®, SnapServer®, V3, RDX®, and NEO®. For more information, visit www.sphere3d.com.
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