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Yes, nice way to go from not an app to other extreme, as if I ever claimed GW is running Azure itself...correct, it is running ON Azure...
Thanks for moving from one extreme to the other extreme though, is clever...
Of course they are not, but GW is now officially available to customers on this very little platform:
The Azure Platform is supported by a growing network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Microsoft has decades of experience running services such as Bing, Office 365, and outlook.com. Azure is available in 140 countries, including China, and supports 10 languages and 24 currencies, all backed by Microsoft's $15 billion (USD) investment in global datacenter infrastructure. Azure is continuously investing in the latest infrastructure technologies, with a focus on high reliability, operational excellence, cost-effectiveness, environmental sustainability, and a trustworthy online experience for customers and partners worldwide.
Doesnt show, but I guess you are feeling a little left behind by your covering friends...so grasping and repeating is the last strategy...
Evidence: Covering while bashing is very common....
http://www.moneyflowindex.org/update-sphere-3d-corp-short-interest-disclosure/3217806/
So anybody selling to the shorts while they are evidently covering...anyway, explains their relentless bashing right now...
You finally hit the nail on the proverbial head, yes it took them years to finally put themselves in the best position as a small company to sell Glassware, via establishing a combination of reseller channels, Azure, own appliances and Professional Services. All crucial components for this company now to sell GW effectively. Finally!!
Yes, it took a LONG time to put all crucial components for them together on a shoestring budget from quarter to quarter. I guess they are "guilty" as charged! Sure you could have done it a LOT faster!
if you weren't so busy on ihub of course.
"Supposedly interesting" Yes, I guess virtualisation of applications is "supposedly interesting", maybe even a HUGE industry, some DD outside of ihub might help you to discover facts that...
...that are not going to be to your liking, so lets ignore them and talk about something else
They, but you are still here. Envy much?
Re-collection of statements from industry experts
Pardon me, since the shorts enjoy repeating their statements almost daily, I enjoy trying to recollect statements from actual professionals in the space. GLTA
Nicole Herskowitz, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft Azure: “As the world becomes more mobile and generates significantly more data, enterprises are seeking a mix of cloud and on-premises services that can help them quickly deploy applications and effectively manage all of this data. “Sphere 3D’s solutions extend the capabilities of Azure enabling customers to seamlessly manage apps and data in a hybrid cloud environment.”
Vibhor Kapoor, Director, Microsoft Azure Product Marketing said “By working closely with Sphere 3D, we are able to continue to deliver on that commitment and provide a new level of flexibility for organizations looking for scalable application delivery from the cloud.”
Larry Orecklyn, Microsoft VP and Chief Evangelist: “Sphere 3D is again demonstrating agility, creating exciting hybrid solutions architected to deliver user apps and data on-premises or in the cloud . That is what makes Sphere 3D a great fit with our Azure cloud ecosystem.”
Chris Lwanga, principle PM manager, Microsoft: "Transitioning legacy applications and storage infrastructures not designed for the cloud has become both complicated and expensive for the enterprise. Sphere 3D's 'next cloud' solutions complement the capabilities of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. Customers now have a compelling option for modernizing and mobilizing their existing infrastructure; and they can avoid rip-and-replace scenarios."
Wikibon Sr. Analyst Stu Miniman:"Practitioners in the Wikibon community are in the midst of a challenging time for managing their application portfolio. The opportunities and difficulties of leveraging cloud and mobile technologies puts a strain on IT. According to Wikibon data, Microsoft is the leader in overall public cloud (across the combination of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) and has long been critical to any consideration of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)"."Bringing Glassware 2.0 into the Microsoft Azure Marketplace gives users the performance and flexibility of Sphere 3D's solutions across a broad spectrum of devices and environments and arms users with a powerful tool to deliver their application portfolio."
Eric Kelly, Sphere 3D CEO: "The Microsoft relationship is long term. What rolled out is Phase I. Microsoft sees value on a Global basis. What you see now is just the beginning."
Tim Law, President Novarad: "We initially envisioned NovaGlass as a solution that will leverage our PACS and RIS solutions to give users access to full imaging features from additional endpoints. However, over the last 12 months, it has evolved to significantly more. Today, having worked closely with the team at Sphere 3D and spent time canvassing our customers, we see NovaGlass as a platform that enhances clinical workflow and can increase our ability to positively impact patient outcomes."
Paul Shumway, Senior Vice President of Novarad said: "We have tested many of today's leading virtualization technologies and have looked at a number of potential solutions; none were able to deliver the simple migration to virtualization and incredible performance that we get from the Sphere 3D approach to virtual computing. The first time we saw our products run on Glassware 2.0, we were sold."
August Calhoun, Ph.D., vice president/general manager, Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences said: “The addition of Sphere 3D’s solutions to Dell DRIVE Plus ensures that we are offering the most robust virtualization experience possible for our EHR customers”. “Through this collaboration with industry leaders we are able to deliver a truly innovative reference architecture for healthcare systems.”
James Townsend: President of Microsoft Gold Partner InfoStrat, “Sphere 3D Virtualization Enables On-Demand Testing for Grades K-12.”
Bryan Bleil, Vice President of online technology implementation at Pearson. “We welcome Glassware 2.0 into the TestNav Qualified program as a technology provider that shares our goal for enhanced learning capabilities through technology adoption.”
Dustin Hardin, Director of Technology of New Caney ISD, a current Glassware customer said: "We tried traditional virtualization techniques but the specific applications we needed couldn't virtualize or wouldn't scale. With our Glassware 2.0 enabled Dell(TM) server, we were able to virtualize the applications we needed and future proof our investment in Chromebooks for our students."
Jason Katcher, Head of Education and Recruitment Advertising Google: “We see things diff. Leave it there.You sell on past. Others buy for future. Buying more (ANY shares) here. Nice job @Sphere3D on call.”
Jeffrey Schwartz is editor of Redmond magazine and also covers cloud computing for Virtualization Review's Cloud Report. - “A new Microsoft partner, Sphere 3D, is making containers that have fewer dependencies than Docker.”
Laura Didio, highly respected tech reviewer tested GlassWare and said: " it does everything it claims to do. Sphere3D Glassware 2.0 & V3 Appliances are all excellent."
Terri McClure, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, an IT research firm, observed that Sphere 3D's approach helps customers avoid the tangle of compliance and security issues that can arise when they engage with third parties to build out their hybrid clouds in response to the rise of mobile work style. SnapCLOUD fits the bills, McClure said. With the introduction of the its SnapCLOUD technology, "Sphere 3D appears to be addressing customers' needs to be able to centrally manage and deliver all of their enterprise data, regardless of whether it is on premise, in the cloud, or which device employees prefer to use for work," she asserted.
Deni Connor, a principal analyst with Storage Strategies Now, said Sphere 3D wants to capitalize on the growing trend toward cloud-based file storage. "That gives them a cloud gateway capability so that users can store their data wherever they want. The fact they are allowing file and block access as well as supporting snapshots and replication is important," Connor said.
Roth analyst Krishna Shankar commented, "Following the merger between Overland Storage (OVRL) and Sphere3D, we believe that Sphere3D is making good progress in leveraging its cloud virtualization software and storage/virtualization appliance technology for any application and operating system running on any device including a key partnership with Microsoft's Azure Cloud services."
Simon Bramfitt, CTO at Sphere 3D and Founder of IT consulting firm Entechely Associates, said (even before deciding to join Sphere 3D): "both Glassware and V3 have a genuinely new take on the business of getting Windows applications (Glassware) and Windows desktops (V3) in front of end-users." "Sphere 3D looks poised to create a whole new technology classification with Glassware 2.0, a hyperconverged cloud client app hosting appliance.", "Aside from its being a hardware appliance, it is its inherent simplicity that is Glassware’s first key differentiator.","Glassware’s other big differentiator is its flexibility in distributed and hybrid cloud deployments."," Glassware looks to be a good fit for almost any organization that recognizes it needs an RDSH-style application hosting solution but is unwilling to take on the complexity of current-generation solutions."
Jim Broemmer, CEO at Adams Telephone Co-Operative. “There is a tremendous opportunity in the virtualization market that requires a solution with the right price performance benefits. Sphere 3D’s automated solution allows us to expand our portfolio of offerings to include economically sound virtual desktop and application services to our customers.”
Cyril Pennanech who is responsible for IT services and networking at LISA: “High availability of our storage infrastructure is critical to our research activity and the reason we chose SnapScale. We were also very impressed by the simplicity and scale of SnapScale. Since our initial deployment, we have seamlessly added capacity, and we expect SnapScale to continue growing as our data grows."
Todd Hartung, vice president of Promark: “End users and IT solutions providers are looking for choices and flexibility as they embrace cloud mobility and the relentless data growth in their environments. Our expanded relationship with Overland Storage and parent company Sphere 3D expands our solution portfolio, delivering more choice to our channel partners and empowering them to meet the expanding IT requirements of end users.”
Mario M. Veljovic, Vice President Solutions MENA at Global Distribution FZE: “Partnering with Overland Storage, with its pioneering technologies, is a great step forward in our Mission. Being among the first to introduce their latest VDI Solutions in the region is a great privilege.”
Mr. Alan Loh, Senior Sales Director at Datum Technology Pte Ltd, a leading enterprise solution value-added distributor (VAD) in Singapore, said, “We were introduced to the V3 VDI hyper-converged appliance at vForum in Singapore and are very excited to have a product like V3 in our portfolio. V3 appliances offer a unique value proposition and remain highly differentiated from traditional converged infrastructure or solutions trying to use clustered storage file systems. Additionally, the added capability of scaling storage separately from desktop computing should create greater flexibility for our customers.”
Exactly. Time will tell and to date we are missing from the shorts the simplest explanations of how this vaporware co. managed to get multiple Virtual Machine offerings on Azure, and to get the support and endorsements from Microsoft, Novarad and the like. Very weird, but lets not dwell on such unpleasant facts.
To date they lack the simplest evidence that GW does not work, and as such we should get to trade at a 10x sales multiple as its proportion of virtualisation versus storage revenue grows, now that officially launched..what an unpleasant point again..
The shorts won until today, and they would love to call it quits, except that they still have to cover. So the daily, hourly, smear capaign will go on until they finshed doing so or until the evidence becomes so large and shareholder base so wise, that smear campaigns on share boards wont be able to sway the odd soul despite the evidence in front of their eyes...
Meanwhile every single time I see their posts I think to myself...Have fun covering...
Thats a pretty good summary. Thanks.
One either looks backward or forward, in life or here...
By the way on that 96 number...might be worth remembering that this is Virtual Machines created, not users or something, as every VM authorises a number of users, so for example that UPS store is only 1 out of 96, and in ANY's case thats 96 more GW on Azure machines/ offices than were there pre-launch...not defending just saying its number of VMs...
Agree on all accounts Thanks eom
Doesnt look related at all to be frank (apart from also being in the IoT (Internet of Things) space:
Exosite is a internet of things software as a service company that develops software for companies that views and analyzes data collected from sensors built into physical objects.
Maybe you want to ride it back up, up to everybody though
If you think nothing will change then you might not like the surprises they will unpack for you. Its ok, to each their own past and future.
He is very much covering Sphere, and seeing the big picture, just FYI
Sheldon was subscribing in his wife's name, Lynn Factor this year, long after the Pinetree saga, pleople really out to do more DD...
So you think MacFarlane and him are just going to see more than $12.5 million of their share investment just wiped out?
Sure..and once we prove a lttle bit of traction there will be more than enough investors investors, investors who can actually recognise the difference between past development stage and currently commencing commercialisation phase...
And investors recognising the OEM troubles Overland had (HP restructuring) and that they already as they say made the shortfall up in mid November...
Its ok, people can believe what they want, some can sell to the shorts all they like, really doesnt matter...they are not getting my shares, they can take other people's shares who dont do close DD and get influenced by the the repeated daily posts of anonymous shorts or "sceptics" on an ihub board rather than seeing their investment through now that Sphere is actually finally coming to market with its main product and an established reseller base, so good luck to all...it is a free world...
As they say, second mouse gets the cheese.
And MacFarlane and Sheldon own well over $12 million in shares even at this tiny market cap and would happily participate in another raise as they frequently did, if they get the chance... so try to argue that they would see over $12 million of themselves wiped out...
Boy, oh boy...the FUD on this is reaching unprecedent levels...
And thats why the few who will be able to understand them will make it from here to the promised land, and those who dont will be left behind with the naysayers in the valley.
Simple as that.
They just raised equity and the creditor you are talking about just consented to the draw down on the extended credit line IF so requested by the company. LOL
Yesterday too. Since you love the past so much...
Nice! Thank you, yes that is the ultimate goal.
And to the one guy you have- sorry had- on your side, well:
Michael Keen, former VP Technology Services at Sphere: "Apps are the biggest challenge that enterprises face today. Getting them to the cloud is one of them... the Glassware platform is very disruptive and can help millions of apps. Glassware is a platform that can enable this migration and save enterprises significant $$ & empower IT orgs to make the transition of legacy apps to the cloud much easier. Glassware and hybrid cloud FTW [For the World]"
That is until that one guy you cling to now - and who said above, and even wrote a whole blog on how "disruptive" GW is btw - obviously from his tweets and status became a seemingly very disgruntled former employee...tweeting his anger...and now even stopped to do so...
So good luck "on your critical thinking". Might want to apply your own advice...
Collection of statements from industry experts
Pardon me, am in xmas spirit, and will update further, but as new investors may find it hard to catch up on all the developments over the past year, this may help to get a better idea:
Nicole Herskowitz, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft Azure: “As the world becomes more mobile and generates significantly more data, enterprises are seeking a mix of cloud and on-premises services that can help them quickly deploy applications and effectively manage all of this data. “Sphere 3D’s solutions extend the capabilities of Azure enabling customers to seamlessly manage apps and data in a hybrid cloud environment.”
Vibhor Kapoor, Director, Microsoft Azure Product Marketing said “By working closely with Sphere 3D, we are able to continue to deliver on that commitment and provide a new level of flexibility for organizations looking for scalable application delivery from the cloud.”
Larry Orecklyn, Microsoft VP and Chief Evangelist: “Sphere 3D is again demonstrating agility, creating exciting hybrid solutions architected to deliver user apps and data on-premises or in the cloud . That is what makes Sphere 3D a great fit with our Azure cloud ecosystem.”
Chris Lwanga, principle PM manager, Microsoft: "Transitioning legacy applications and storage infrastructures not designed for the cloud has become both complicated and expensive for the enterprise. Sphere 3D's 'next cloud' solutions complement the capabilities of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. Customers now have a compelling option for modernizing and mobilizing their existing infrastructure; and they can avoid rip-and-replace scenarios."
Wikibon Sr. Analyst Stu Miniman:"Practitioners in the Wikibon community are in the midst of a challenging time for managing their application portfolio. The opportunities and difficulties of leveraging cloud and mobile technologies puts a strain on IT. According to Wikibon data, Microsoft is the leader in overall public cloud (across the combination of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) and has long been critical to any consideration of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)"."Bringing Glassware 2.0 into the Microsoft Azure Marketplace gives users the performance and flexibility of Sphere 3D's solutions across a broad spectrum of devices and environments and arms users with a powerful tool to deliver their application portfolio."
Eric Kelly, Sphere 3D CEO: "The Microsoft relationship is long term. What rolled out is Phase I. Microsoft sees value on a Global basis. What you see now is just the beginning."
Tim Law, President Novarad: "We initially envisioned NovaGlass as a solution that will leverage our PACS and RIS solutions to give users access to full imaging features from additional endpoints. However, over the last 12 months, it has evolved to significantly more. Today, having worked closely with the team at Sphere 3D and spent time canvassing our customers, we see NovaGlass as a platform that enhances clinical workflow and can increase our ability to positively impact patient outcomes."
Paul Shumway, Senior Vice President of Novarad said: "We have tested many of today's leading virtualization technologies and have looked at a number of potential solutions; none were able to deliver the simple migration to virtualization and incredible performance that we get from the Sphere 3D approach to virtual computing. The first time we saw our products run on Glassware 2.0, we were sold."
August Calhoun, Ph.D., vice president/general manager, Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences said: “The addition of Sphere 3D’s solutions to Dell DRIVE Plus ensures that we are offering the most robust virtualization experience possible for our EHR customers”. “Through this collaboration with industry leaders we are able to deliver a truly innovative reference architecture for healthcare systems.”
James Townsend: President of Microsoft Gold Partner InfoStrat, “Sphere 3D Virtualization Enables On-Demand Testing for Grades K-12.”
Bryan Bleil, Vice President of online technology implementation at Pearson. “We welcome Glassware 2.0 into the TestNav Qualified program as a technology provider that shares our goal for enhanced learning capabilities through technology adoption.”
Dustin Hardin, Director of Technology of New Caney ISD, a current Glassware customer said: "We tried traditional virtualization techniques but the specific applications we needed couldn't virtualize or wouldn't scale. With our Glassware 2.0 enabled Dell(TM) server, we were able to virtualize the applications we needed and future proof our investment in Chromebooks for our students."
Jason Katcher, Head of Education and Recruitment Advertising Google: “We see things diff. Leave it there.You sell on past. Others buy for future. Buying more (ANY shares) here. Nice job @Sphere3D on call.”
Jeffrey Schwartz is editor of Redmond magazine and also covers cloud computing for Virtualization Review's Cloud Report. - “A new Microsoft partner, Sphere 3D, is making containers that have fewer dependencies than Docker.”
Laura Didio, highly respected tech reviewer tested GlassWare and said: " it does everything it claims to do. Sphere3D Glassware 2.0 & V3 Appliances are all excellent."
Terri McClure, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, an IT research firm, observed that Sphere 3D's approach helps customers avoid the tangle of compliance and security issues that can arise when they engage with third parties to build out their hybrid clouds in response to the rise of mobile work style. SnapCLOUD fits the bills, McClure said. With the introduction of the its SnapCLOUD technology, "Sphere 3D appears to be addressing customers' needs to be able to centrally manage and deliver all of their enterprise data, regardless of whether it is on premise, in the cloud, or which device employees prefer to use for work," she asserted.
Deni Connor, a principal analyst with Storage Strategies Now, said Sphere 3D wants to capitalize on the growing trend toward cloud-based file storage. "That gives them a cloud gateway capability so that users can store their data wherever they want. The fact they are allowing file and block access as well as supporting snapshots and replication is important," Connor said.
Roth analyst Krishna Shankar commented, "Following the merger between Overland Storage (OVRL) and Sphere3D, we believe that Sphere3D is making good progress in leveraging its cloud virtualization software and storage/virtualization appliance technology for any application and operating system running on any device including a key partnership with Microsoft's Azure Cloud services."
Simon Bramfitt, CTO at Sphere 3D and Founder of IT consulting firm Entechely Associates, said (even before deciding to join Sphere 3D): "both Glassware and V3 have a genuinely new take on the business of getting Windows applications (Glassware) and Windows desktops (V3) in front of end-users." "Sphere 3D looks poised to create a whole new technology classification with Glassware 2.0, a hyperconverged cloud client app hosting appliance.", "Aside from its being a hardware appliance, it is its inherent simplicity that is Glassware’s first key differentiator.","Glassware’s other big differentiator is its flexibility in distributed and hybrid cloud deployments."," Glassware looks to be a good fit for almost any organization that recognizes it needs an RDSH-style application hosting solution but is unwilling to take on the complexity of current-generation solutions."
Jim Broemmer, CEO at Adams Telephone Co-Operative. “There is a tremendous opportunity in the virtualization market that requires a solution with the right price performance benefits. Sphere 3D’s automated solution allows us to expand our portfolio of offerings to include economically sound virtual desktop and application services to our customers.”
Cyril Pennanech who is responsible for IT services and networking at LISA: “High availability of our storage infrastructure is critical to our research activity and the reason we chose SnapScale. We were also very impressed by the simplicity and scale of SnapScale. Since our initial deployment, we have seamlessly added capacity, and we expect SnapScale to continue growing as our data grows."
Todd Hartung, vice president of Promark: “End users and IT solutions providers are looking for choices and flexibility as they embrace cloud mobility and the relentless data growth in their environments. Our expanded relationship with Overland Storage and parent company Sphere 3D expands our solution portfolio, delivering more choice to our channel partners and empowering them to meet the expanding IT requirements of end users.”
Mario M. Veljovic, Vice President Solutions MENA at Global Distribution FZE: “Partnering with Overland Storage, with its pioneering technologies, is a great step forward in our Mission. Being among the first to introduce their latest VDI Solutions in the region is a great privilege.”
Mr. Alan Loh, Senior Sales Director at Datum Technology Pte Ltd, a leading enterprise solution value-added distributor (VAD) in Singapore, said, “We were introduced to the V3 VDI hyper-converged appliance at vForum in Singapore and are very excited to have a product like V3 in our portfolio. V3 appliances offer a unique value proposition and remain highly differentiated from traditional converged infrastructure or solutions trying to use clustered storage file systems. Additionally, the added capability of scaling storage separately from desktop computing should create greater flexibility for our customers.”
Thank you for posting! Definitely nice to watch, also very nice that GW integrates to the various equipment and applications of the customer.
I know its a small intallation yet, as just one branch, but it really is nice to see as this is just about showing us the feedback from a customer. Very nice!
Agreed. eom
I actually agree with you in that nobody or most here, longs and shorts, are virtualisation experts.
And definitely in terms of tech wouldnt listen to anybody EXCEPT companies that actually are in the business. I think Microsoft is, And thats why most longs are here, because they have seen or heard from MSFT execs as well as Novarad execs and many other experts in the industry. I will happily pull up the long list of quotes again from all these, they serve as an excellent reminder. Good point!
On the other hand, who do the shorts cling to? Some obviously disgruntled former employee whose contract was not renewed, sitting in Iowa with no apparent job and not elaborating on his tweets? Really? So which one objectively outweighs the other??
Feel free to answer.
So, so if you ask me not to review your "critical" or negative stance in light of all the positive statements from experts versus what you seem to cling to seems ehhhm... close minded at best!
IMHO
It has a logic that will make the longs very happy about it. Thats my viewpoint.
You will find out the logic behind that soon enough
I know you are right, its just sometimes you see these obvious interpretations and you think, some guy somewhere might be swayed by their constantly negative assumptions etc, but you are right. And in a way, I mean look at how Hugo lied about being out and coming back a few days later.
If you look at the Board, and all their postings and aliases you can pretty much tell how disheartened they are about the price movement these days and that on no news. Trying their utmost to contain the rise with posts...not knowing that it isnt little guys here on the board buying, just look at the volume...
The frequency of daily short postings indicates also much, much more than they will ever care to admit...a fantastic contrarian indicator...
Guess somebody should have stuck to their word and covered...
And that on no news...
Well I think you have to, even if dont like it, open your mind and accept that Sphere has now entered the commercialisation phase.
Undeniably, but I would guess that you are not willing to accept that (at least publicly), so here is raising the glass(ware) to your closed mindnedness. Ironically.
Have fun posting!
Very nice article with Sphere 3D mention:
http://technologieszon.info/cloud-computing/is-the-cloud-computing-really-the-new-world-request/
Slowly but surely, people will start to increasingly take notice.
So what are you doing here? Let's hear it in your words...
Please dont use "public service" that would be copy cat and was there before...lets come up with something more creative
Lets not tempt him unnecessarily, quite happy without him.
One post doesnt make him a liar yet. Good luck to him on his future endeavours for all I care....
Same here. Agreed.
To you too!
Thank you and we are in there with offerings right there in the middle of it. Thats why I posted that sticky with the Nasdaq presentation with Microsoft. Thanks.
"Perhaps things will be better with Azure as an additional platform, I surely hope so for you guys,"
First, exactly agreed (and yes Azure is a global distribution platform no less as you can read up) and secondly thank you anyway for trying to enlighten "us guys".
Very nicely shows "us guys" were you stand. Thank you!!
Next, you will say that you are not short, but performing a "public service", ohhh...where did we hear that before??
"We just need to hear the name of a single large customer....that's all it will take IMO."
Agree, and I think we will...
"This nonsense of one-off demos with a single UPS store or single Dominion Lending location is not cutting it...."
True, but all they wanted to show with that is the ease of deployment making virtualisation solutions easy and accessible for even branches etc anybody really and to illustrate in easy one hour videos that their monetisation process has started... due to all the uncertainties, to show real everyday people/offices using the product...
Labour intensive custom deployments one could argue are actually the most profitable type as they can be charged and billed as professinal services which they mentioned they are doing now already via so called Exosphere...
So, I am actually very happy to see those...thats where the real money for virtualisation companies is actually...
Now, lets spin that negatively...