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In Mr. Smiths original message he said: "I am just highly dubious of the extraordinary claims being made"
In Galen Gruman's article he says of Mr. Smith: "Just this week, Derek Smith, co-founder of Orchard Parc, a desktop virtualization vendor, took to Twitter with the kinds of outrageous claims"
So here you have a guy who makes "outrageous claims" criticizing a company who he says makes "extraordinary claims."
Merriam Webster:
ex·traor·di·nary adjective
: very unusual : very different from what is normal or ordinary
: extremely good or impressive
out·ra·geous adjective
a : exceeding the limits of what is usual
b : not conventional or matter-of-fact : fantastic
2
: violent, unrestrained
3
a : going beyond all standards of what is right or decent <an outrageous disregard of human rights>
b : deficient in propriety or good taste
I will take extraordinary claims over outrageous claims every time.
" 30 years in the IT industry, if it is so, may actually be a barrier to understanding and seeing... this is simply the way of paradigms... glta..."
Yes, our Mr. Smith seems to be a perfect example of what you pointed out. Much more interested in protecting the technology in place than getting on board with potential breakthroughs. But his negativity goes way beyond that. I have NEVER seen an executive of a company go on a public message board of another company to bash it and disparage people from investing in it. And using a criminal enterprise like The StreetSweeper as a basis for his source of negativity while ignoring intelligent tech people in the industry who have already embraced GlassWare2.0 is incomprehensible.
Funny also that he has come up with absolutely ZERO experts in the field who have denounced Sphere's technology, rather only some skeptics who seem to have other reasons for not wanting to see Sphere succeed. If I were CEO of this Orchard Parc outfit Mr. Smith would be in my office Monday morning getting reamed out for this completely unacceptable behavior. Oops it's Canada so I guess it would be unacceptable "behaviour".
""Highly leveraged and financially distressed" says it all. Companies like that do not have the capital to:
a/ create new technology
Perhaps I am missing something, so please educate me.
OK, how about this:
6 $25 Billion Companies That Started in a Garage
BY DREW HENDRICKS @DREWAHENDRICKS
Every new company has to begin somewhere. These 6 world-famous ones--worth more than $25 billion each--started in garages.
Google
Yes, the world's most famous search engine was actually started in a garage. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, graduates of Stanford University, rented a garage from a friend, Susan Wojcicki, in September of 1998. They worked day and night for a number of months and developed what would be known as Google. Their main goal while creating the website was to organize and maintain all kinds of information on a single platform accessible to common people all over the world. Today, Google is the most commonly used search engine in the world and has also launched other useful websites and applications like Gmail, Google+, and Google Drive.
Apple
Apple is another insanely popular international brand, but few people realize that it was started in a California garage by three young men. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne developed the first Apple computer in 1976 in the garage of Steve Jobs' parents' house.
The Apple I was sold as a motherboard to a local store for $500 and shortly thereafter, the team continued on to create the Apple II computer. The founders' products and company became famous when they got a break from their Macintosh line of products, from which they earned millions of dollars. Now, Apple is leading a technological revolution with its various devices, including Mac computers, iPhones, iPods, and iPads.
Microsoft
Every computer user knows the Microsoft brand. It's the remarkable and famous software that was once created in a small Albuquerque garage by Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen. Both of them gave more importance to programming language and software operations and worked in collaboration with IBM. They got their first operating system licensed for $80,000. They kept working hard and some years later they developed their most impressive and exceptional operating system, called Windows. Today, Windows is the most widely used software on the globe. About 80% of computers worldwide are running this operating system.
Amazon
Amazon.com is a well-known online shopping website that was created in 1994 as an online bookstore by Jeff Bezos. He created the website in his garage in Washington, originally investing nearly $40,000 to enable him to order, sell, and deliver books to 48 different countries. He succeeded in selling his first book in July 1995, and since then has built Amazon into the largest online shopping store in world.
Disney
Walt and Roy Disney created their first films in their uncle's garage in 1923. They started their career by creating "Alice Comedies," which were actually a part of the original Alice in Wonderland animation series. Disney faced a lot of hardships in the journey toward success and was only accepted by investors after enduring plenty of struggle and strife. Now, Disney is one of the most popular and highest-earning media houses and franchises in the world, and is the leading name in producing cartoons, children's movies, and animated films.
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Two friends, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, founded HP in Packard's garage in 1939 with an initial investment of only $538. The product that eventually boosted their career was an audio oscillator (HP200A), which was sold to Walt Disney to improve its sound system for the movie Fantasia. Walt Disney bought eight oscillators and gave HP the biggest break of its life. Today, the Packard's garage in Palo Alto is famous as the birthplace of HP and Silicon Valley. Since its inception, HP has developed into a powerful and active company, developing various computers, laptops, and other computer-centric accessories with advanced technologies.
All of these companies started with little investment capital and small physical space, but hard work and unwavering dedication led them to huge success. With the same type of passion and determination you, too, could be the founder of the next $25B+ enterprise.
LAST UPDATED: JUL 24, 2014
" he was invited twice to visit the Sphere 3D booth, first at Briforum Boston and recently at VMworld San Francisco."
If I spent as much time tweeting inane things and trying to figure out nasty things to say about Sphere3D while disregarding the facts, I wouldn't have any time to actually go to Sphere's demos either.
https://twitter.com/derek32smith
Well, "Mr. Smith", strange that you answered only Question #3 of the 4 questions I asked of you. So I will repeat the other questions and if you fail to answer them I can only assume that you are just some new basher assuming the identity of a supposed tech company executive. This of course would be against the following IHUB TOS:
E. Misappropriates the name, likeness, image, sound or other physical attribute of another person or user or falsely impersonates any other user, person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives;
Here are the other questions I asked that you did not answer:
Question #1. Are you in fact Derek Smith VP Business Development at Orchard Parc?
Question #2. If Mr. Bookman tweeted or emailed you that he will get you the "sandbox" as soon as he is able, why would you come on a stock message board to complain that Sphere is unwilling to give you a demo?
Question #3. You say: "Please note that the links on their web site to The Register connect to articles that raise similar questions." I do not seem to find this link. Could you tell me where it is?
Question #4. Nowhere do you state that GlassWare 2.0 does not work. Yet, your entire message was to take the point of view that it doesn't work and that the company is a scam. Why would you take that position and post it on a stock message board if you DON'T KNOW YET?
By the way, that Register article you referenced i 4 months old and I certainly would question the validity of any article that takes quotes from that criminal short selling entity known as StreetSweeper. Is this the best you can do? That last question by the way is rhetorical.
Question #1. Are you in fact Derek Smith VP Business Development at Orchard Parc?
Question #2. If Mr. Bookman tweeted or emailed you that he will get you the "sandbox" as soon as he is able, why would you come on a stock message board to complain that Sphere is unwilling to give you a demo?
Question #3. You say: "Please note that the links on their web site to The Register connect to articles that raise similar questions." I do not seem to find this link. Could you tell me where it is?
Question #4. Nowhere do you state that GlassWare 2.0 does not work. Yet, your entire message was to take the point of view that it doesn't work and that the company is a scam. Why would you take that position and post it on a stock message board if you DON'T KNOW YET?
Would like you to prove me wrong, but your posting sounds much more like something written by StreetSweeper. com then by a Vice President of a reputable company.
As PT Barnum once said: "There's a sucker born every minute". It goes both ways.
I did the same thing earlier in the day. Sold OVRL @ 3.42 and bought ANY @ 6.40.
Very strange divergence.
A minute ago OVRL was selling for $3.52 which would be equivalent to an ANY price of $7.04. Yet Any was at $6.45.
Hard to understand.
Well Mr. edge on 9/2 you wrote:
"Clearly a fundamental buy signal today. Looking to add 10k more any moment. And we really should be around 4 right now, in due time and hanging tight."
That day the stock traded between 3.05 & 3.27. Since then it has been down 4 of the last 5 trading days and has lost about 15% of its value.
Can you tell me what went wrong with your analysis?
That's OK jan. Just remember from "old sod" green grass grows. Well, maybe not but let's hope.
If you really believe this is going to go to $20 or $50 or $100, there are shares available to buy at $6.70. That extra $20 spent now could be worth a whole lot more in the future.
"From 7.50 how can you be so wrong to 6.50, LOL."
I wasn't talking about you being wrong about that. It hadn't occurred yet. I was talking about the many times you were wrong about the direction of xxii. Of all the predictions you did on that stock, somebody probably could have done just as well by flipping a coin.
"The shorts are betting this is a sale less penny pipedream."
If so they have already been proven wrong by the Chesterfield School District selecting GlassWare to work with the 32,000 ChromeBooks they just purchased. And don't forget NovaRad.
"Another concern is virtually zero interest on the NAS,"
That is why I believe a full out campaign to get the real story out about Sphere and GlassWare 2.0 is absolutely necessary. I believe the zero interest is primarily because of it being unknown. That can change very quickly and WHEN that does happen those smart shorts are going to look pretty silly and that share price could double in a flash.
So far Sphere is being DEFINED by negative articles from the shorts and lukewarm or tentative articles from others. If the truth is something other than that then someone better get it out there or we are going to be looking at ever lower share prices.
Another article expressing as much doubt about Sphere's future as possible success.
All the more reason we need a totally positive article out there for the investing public to read.
"and paradigm shifts always appear preposterous before they appear obvious."
I have never have never heard that concept expressed so well and so succinctly.
Remember, I am only talking about updates to stocks already recommended by HTFBS and not new recommendations. It is not unusual for outfits in that business to provide info to their subscribers first and then to release it to the general public. That way the subscribers get first shot and then benefit again by the huge interest that can be created by releasing the info to the greater market. I just don't see any benefit in trying to keep positive info a secret.
We have already seen the damage negative Seeking Alpha articles have done to both this stock and to xxii. There have been a couple of positive articles about Sphere, but nothing with the depth that HTFBS could provide. In fact some of the positive articles have been downright wishy washy.
pete,
I wasn't confused about what you said. And I agree that subscribers are entitled to whatever info HTFBS comes up with BEFORE it is given to the general public. Where we disagree is I think a couple of days headstart for subscribers is enough whereas you think 2 months.
A good stock is like a good product. Both need to be known before they can be successful. If I developed a great product with great advantages over similiar products but all I did was tell my friends about it, it might never become successful. That's why BIG PRODUCTS get advertised. BIG STOCKS eventually need to do the same. I think it's time.
pete, let me take issue with some of what you wrote.
" mgt may have things cooking that they would like kept on the QT prior to their timing of the announcement."
I think we need to differentiate between information about what has already happened and speculation as to what might happen. When a company issues a press release it is primarily about things that have already happened. HTFBS updates are SPECULATION about things that might happen. If Sphere was issuing info only to HTFBS, and not to the general public, about things that have happened or that they know FOR SURE will happen, that would be highly unethical.
"a subscriber may not have funds immediately available and so at least a minimum of 2 months would be my earliest release of news. "
I don't think it is wise policy for a subscription service to "hold" info that could benefit the share price and thus the current shareholders until such a time as they think a particular subscriber MIGHT have some funds to buy more shares. Heck, that time may never come. Also, some folks actually do use margin and when the price of shares they own go up they actually have more funds to use to buy more shares.
"These picks are for long investors, not traders"
I don't think any stock can be or is ONLY for one type of investor. At various times most stocks can be good long term investments as well as trading vehicles. That's why many people will take a core position and trade around it. For the last few months ANY has not been either a good hold or a good trade (too unpredictable). I would like this to change and would rather see it change sooner than later.
I have never seen any stock harmed or long term investor harmed by good solid positive info being put out to the general public. I think RIGHT NOW it is very important for the Sphere story to be brought to the attention of as many as possible and who better to do this than HTFBS.
"Agree. That was the greatest update ever.
EVER.
If you need a reason to buy Sphere"
I don't need an additional reason to buy ANY. Evidently neither do other HTFBS subscribers as this terrific update has failed to inspire anyone to buy the stock.
I can understand keeping new picks a deep dark secret, but updates? Seems a better policy for HTFBS would be to allow a day or two after the updates for members to take action, if they wish, and then to post the update someplace where the general investing community could see it.
Shorts seem quite willing to put out their negative B.S. publicly and have been very effective in knocking the share price down abut 40%. During that time HTFBS has sat idly by. Makes no sense for the ones who know most about the company and its fantastic potential to be unwilling to share this info with the general public. Give them the "greatest update ever" so they will have a "reason to buy Sphere".
New Seeking Alpha article by Shareholders Unite
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2470845-22nd-century-cigarettes-without-nicotine-how-much-are-they-worth
Thanks ahagelthrope,
Here's Muellers blog post:
Sphere3D
"An interesting startup in the virtual desktop and virtualization space. Contrary to most VDI products that sit on hypervisors, Sphere3D has built its on microvisor. With that the company achieves significant better utilization of hardware than the VM based competitors – but with the vendor also requires its own virtualization. The good news is that the virtualization process is simple, only a few steps and can be done by a business end user, with the requirement being only that they are able to install the application. With the pending merger with Overland Storage the company will likely become a player in the mobile / BYOD market, too. "
Future Developments
Sphere 3D intends to continue to build its organization with a focus on revenue generation, marketing and a continuation of its aggressive technology innovation cycle.
The Company’s core focus of providing access to fully functional software applications on otherwise incompatible devices has expanded to include the availability of enhanced performance on compatible devices.
Sphere 3D plans to increasingly market targeted services to enterprise level customers, to provide secure, fully functioning access to third party legacy software and/or operating systems without the requirement to rewrite them to the Cloud. Additionally, Sphere 3D will consider other possible strategic acquisitions that may enhance its technology offering and market position.
To support its marketing strategy, Sphere 3D intends to continue to increase its service delivery capacity within the scalable model it has already established, and add selective technology functionality to its platform to enhance specific vertical and/or client offerings.
With the announcement of the Merger Agreement, Sphere 3D and Overland have accelerated their efforts to develop an integrated application virtualization and data storage platform, as well as Converged Infrastructure solutions. It is expected that the combined businesses will accelerate Sphere 3D’s go to market strategy and allow it to leverage Overland’s robust third party reseller and OEM distribution model.
Market Overview
The market for the Company’s products and services has experienced strong demand and management anticipates that such demand will continue for the foreseeable future.
According to IHS Technology, enterprise businesses moving their IT services, applications and infrastructure to cloud-based architecture will cause market revenue in this segment to surge by a factor of three from 2011 to 2017. 1
IHS reports “Global business spending for infrastructure and services related to the cloud will reach an estimated $174.2 billion (in 2014), up a hefty 20 percent from $145.2 billion in 2013. By 2017, enterprise spending on the cloud will amount to a projected $235.1 billion, triple the $78.2 billion in 2011.
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1 IHS: Cloud- Related Spending by Businesses to Triple from 2011 to 2017 – February 4, 2014.
Within the Cloud market, IDC is predicting that the cloud software market will surpass $75 billion by 2017 attaining a five year compound annual growth rate of 22% in the forecast period 2 and according to Gartner, SaaS and cloud-based business application services revenue will grow from $13.5 billion in 2011 to $32.8 billion in 2016, at a compound annual growth rate of 19.5% . 3
Wikibon’s research projects rapid market growth for Converged Infrastructure, expecting the total available market to reach $402 billion by 2017 of which $217 billion is comprised of Server, Storage, Networking and Infrastructure Software.
Additional research from IDC anticipates the overall spending on converged systems in the data center to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54.7 percent, from $2.0 billion in 2011 to $17.8 billion in 2016 and that converged infrastructure will account for 12.8 percent of total storage, server, networking and software spending by 2016, up from only 3.9 percent in 2012.
Over the next 12 months, two additional significant trends are expected to benefit the Company: (i) within the next 12 months more than 50% of enterprises will prioritize building private internal Clouds (currently, the common approach that companies are using is by purchasing commercial software), 4 and (ii) Cloud applications will account for 90% of total mobile data traffic by 2018 while Mobile cloud traffic will grow 12-fold from 2013 to 2018, attaining a compound annual growth rate of 64%
"No one wants to take any chances."
Can't agree with that statement as I know of at least one person who is willing to "take chances" no matter where the total market happens to be and I suspect there might be others besides me.
It might seem trite to differentiate between the Stock Market and a market of stocks, but it is an important difference. Whether the Stock Market seems high or low, there are ALWAYS individual stocks that are undervalued and present exceptional potential. Only a matter of enough investors finding the opportunity, realizing the potential, and getting on board.
Only problem here is Sphere being "discovered" by more of those investors.
Whether we like it or not, Seeking Alpha articles are an effective way to move share prices up or down. Unfortunately in the case of Sphere3D there has been much more eagerness on the part of SHORTS to produce NEGATIVE articles than there has been on the side of LONGS to produce POSITIVE articles.
Why is that? Are we too lazy? Are we too "sophisticated" to use such a simplistic medium? Do longs not have the belief and passion that the shorts do? I don't have an answer. Perhaps others here do.
ANYway, the Sphere/Overland story needs to be told. Recent PR's have not had any really positive effect on the share price because they have all been about new product offers. That type of news usually doesn't move the price. The most exciting news is that presented on this message board about the positive response to GlassWare by important people in the computer industry. But who else is aware of all these great reviews and tweets besides the folks on this board and the HTFBS subscribers. Unfortunately most on this board and subs already are loaded to the gills in ANY/OVRL.
So with the price of both issues pretty much in the dumper, and the need for many new eyes on this wonderful opportunity, what better way to do that than a really positive, exciting Seeking Alpha article about this undervalued little gem? Another stock I have a large holding in is SuperCom (SPCB). Recently one of the posters on the Yahoo message board for that stock sumitted his first Seeking Alpha article about it. It was accepted, published and had a very positive effect on the share price. Of course that was followed by a fantastic earnings report in which they quadrupled revenues and projected a terrific future. A nice article now followed by the publicity that will come with the completion of the merger might have the same type of positive effect on ANY and get the share price back over $10 where it belongs.
I would be happy to write an article, but I am a tech DUMMY so I would definitely not be the one to do it. Most likely person would be Scott Shaffer. With everything he already has written he could whip something up in a minute. If not Scott, there are so many guys here who understand the tech, are enthusiastic about the future, and are great at expressing themselves. Is there anyone who would volunteer to do this? I think everyone would be forever grateful.
Interesting to see in his bio that, among other things, he is an "ex-Wall Street trader".
struftepete1,
Thanks for that.
Nothing more powerful than having people in the tech industry declare that your technology is DISRUPTIVE.
Now only a matter of time until the market mover discover this.
Always frustrating being early on in a small cap with fantastic potential waiting for the rest of the world to find out what you already know.
But that is how real investing wealth is built. Definitely worth the wait.
Thanks bb. My feelings towards T.A. are very similar to yours especially as applicable to lightly traded small caps. In this area they only seem plausible absent any events or news pertaining to the company. Predictions by the most expert T.A. practitioner can be completely blown out of the water by either good or bad news. Those who post their predictions on message boards should probably make a disclaimer to this effect each time.
Thanks for your response, but I still don't get it.
You say that on the 10th you claimed that if a 3 point buy system appeared with the share price between $6 & $6.50 your would be a buyer. However, that never happened so that would be a BEARISH indicator. Than on the 13th you said that a BEARSIH weekly doji was forming and ANY remained a SELL.
So according to you everything was BEARISH and pointing to $6 or less. YET, from there the stock is up 15%. All I want to know is why were you so wrong?
etradeedge
On August 13th you wrote:
"Another bearish weekly doji forming looking to challenge 6 again. It's remains on a strong sell rating and may continue selling off until the merger"
Since then the share price has gone up over $1 or close to 20% in only 9 days.
I would love to believe in the value of T.A. and you seem to be knowledgeable and very sure of what you say. But it seems that you are wrong about as many times as you are right. What am I missing here?
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Late Friday afternoon is a strange time for a Press Release, but here it is:
Sphere 3D's V3 Converged Infrastructure Addresses the Market From Small Business to Distributed Enterprise
Last update: 22/08/2014 2:43:57 pm
Sphere 3D's V3 Converged Infrastructure Addresses the Market From Small Business to Distributed Enterprise
New Appliances Are Available for Test Drive at VMWorld 2014
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Aug. 22, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sphere 3D Corporation (TSX-V:ANY) (Nasdaq:ANY) (the "Company" or "Sphere 3D") in advance of VMworld 2014, announced that it will be showcasing their new hyper-converged platform; now available through Overland Storage (Nasdaq:OVRL) within the Overland data management and protection product lines. (See related announcement from Overland Storage here.)
Sphere 3D's CI solutions consist of the V3 Appliance, V3 Desktop Cloud Orchestrator (DCO) management software and V3 Optimized Desktop Allocation (ODA) software; the V3 Desktop cloud computing architecture leverages technology from Microsoft, Fusion-io, Teradici(R) and other leading technology companies, to provide a turn-key appliance solution that eliminates performance issues, installation challenges and unpredictable scalability of traditional VDI. With the addition of these latest V3 Appliances, Overland partners and customers gain access to a CI solution that integrates compute, storage, and network capability with a robust hypervisor infrastructure and simplified management tools.
Said Olivier Favre, Director of Product Management, Teradici and Sphere 3D partner: "We're pleased to have our PCoIP Hardware Accelerator as a pre-configured option in the Sphere 3D solution. The combination enables a rich and consistent user experience for customers with high performance virtualization requirements."
Unlike the complexity of traditional deployments that require weeks to operationalize, V3 converged infrastructure arrives pre-provisioned and ready to integrate within an existing VMware(R) environment in just a few hours. The new V3 models, offered by Overland, accommodate either 100 or 200 desktops per appliance and provide predictable scaling to 10,000 desktops or more.
"Our relationship with Overland allows us to bring together more density for storage resources, with greater performance and flexibility than any other solution in the marketplace" said Peter Bookman, Sphere 3D Head of Global Strategy, "when you include the fact that our desktops are faster in the cloud than local desktops, the advantages just continue to add up."
"The V3 technology has a well-established track record of performance and has proven that it can succeed where typical VDI deployments would otherwise fail," said Peter Tassiopoulos, Sphere 3D CEO. "After months of planning, we are excited to be able to launch the latest version of the award winning V3 appliance to elegantly address the IT needs of organizations of all sizes."
The company is providing demonstrations of V3 Converged Infrastructure solutions and application virtualization platform, Glassware 2.0(R), at VMworld booth #2424 and in private briefings at the St. Regis Hotel during the VMworld show.
I count 2500 shares in the last 2 seconds to go from $7.06 to $6.78.
This same type of thing happened a couple of times a week or so ago in the last seconds of trading.
Really need to ditch TSXV & get all the trading done on NASDAQ. It would make it much more difficult for the manipulators to do things like this.
Wall Street Journal
PRESS RELEASEAugust 19, 2014, 9:07 a.m. ET
Overland Storage(R) Announces Next Generation Hyper-Converged Appliance for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Overland Storage(R) Announces Next Generation Hyper-Converged Appliance for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq:OVRL), a trusted global provider of unified data management and protection solutions across the data lifecycle, today announced the launch of its V3 hyper-converged virtual desktop appliance to address the rapidly-growing virtualization and cloud markets. Developed in partnership with Sphere3D, the V3 Appliances are the first in a series of planned turn-key solutions that will expand Overland's product portfolio. The "purpose-built" V3 Appliance delivers an easy-to-deploy virtual desktop solution with simplified management tools and lower total cost of ownership.
To view an image of the V3 hyper-converged virtual desktop appliance, please visit: http://orders.newsfilecorp.com/files/2720/11242_v3-appliance.jpg
"VDI workloads are well served by hyper-converged solutions, however the management of desktops across diverse environments remains challenging," said Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. "With the Desktop Cloud Orchestrator management software and V3 Appliance, Overland is focused on the right pain points for end users considering VDI."
The addition of V3 virtual desktop appliances expands the value proposition that Overland Storage's worldwide channel partners can offer to customers who want to overcome many of the management, complexity and performance weaknesses of physical desktops and traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions. The V3 Appliance is a hyper-converged infrastructure that integrates compute, storage and network interface, as well as the required hypervisor infrastructure and is managed by the Desktop Cloud Orchestrator management software. This becomes a single turn-key appliance solution that delivers high-availability failover architecture, eliminates performance bottlenecks and installation problems, and provides predictable scalability and cost for VDI deployments.
Overland Storage now offers two models of V3 virtual desktop appliances that are delivered pre-provisioned and ready to quickly and easily install into an existing VMware environment in less than a day. Each V3 solution can accommodate either 100 or 200 desktops per appliance, and effortlessly scales to 10,000 desktops. The ease of deployment, operational simplicity and performance improvements of the V3 Appliance can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by $1 million over three years based on a 1,000 user physical desktop environment.
"V3 desktop virtualization delivered cost savings and flexibility that were simply impossible to achieve with our physical engineering workstation infrastructure," said John McConnell, IT Manager, University of Texas at Dallas School of Engineering. "Additionally, we now deploy engineering lab desktops with dramatically greater speed and efficiency than a traditional physical desktop deployment."
Unique Benefits of the V3 Appliance:
-- Ease & Flexibility of Deployment: The purpose-built, all-in-one V3
Appliance incorporates storage, compute and management in a single
rack-mounted chassis. V3 Appliances can be deployed and managed in a
public, private, or hybrid model and scale up and out for
industry-leading flexibility when deployed locally or in a datacenter.
-- Breakthrough Operational Simplicity: The V3 Desktop Cloud Orchestrator
(DCO) management software streamlines virtual desktop pool administration
with dynamic provisioning for maximum resource utilization, failover for
high availability, and the flexibility to migrate pools between public
and private clouds.
-- Predictable & Consistent Performance: By removing legacy VDI bottlenecks,
the V3 virtual desktop appliance maintains consistent levels of
performance for each V3 user, typically two to eight times faster than
physical PCs.
-- Secure Desktop Computing: The V3 Appliance architecture delivers
highly-secure desktop computing because no data is stored on, or
transferred to, the user's desktop. Administrators have the ability to
control access in real time.
-- Scalability: VDI typically requires additional storage for user data.
Overland Storage completes the V3 virtual desktop solution with optional
SnapServer and SnapScale storage solutions that deliver cost-effective,
reliable and infinitely-scalable performance and capacity.
"Today's requirements in mobility and cloud computing are driving a new set of challenges and complexities for global IT organizations," said Eric Kelly, President and CEO of Overland Storage. "By combining our enterprise-class scalable storage portfolio with the new turn-key V3 Appliance and breakthrough Desktop Cloud Orchestrator software, our global channel partners can now deliver virtual desktop solutions that overcome the cost and complexity of traditional VDI solutions."
Price & Availability
Two models of the V3 Appliance are available from authorized Overland Storage channel partners. The V100 and V200 V3 Appliance models are optimized to serve up to 100 and 200 virtual desktops, respectively and can scale to thousands of desktops. Pricing starts at $60,000 MSRP.
In January Forbes ran an article titled:
Why The Cloud Just Might Be The Most Disruptive Technology Ever
The article came to this conclusion:
"But what makes the cloud so disruptive is that it compels legacy players to change their business models, including pricing strategy, sales channels and even basic technology. The winners will prevail not by dominating the value chain, but through making it easy for developers to collaborate and for users to adopt the technology cheaply and easily.
It seems the cloud is now disrupting every industry it touches. The world’s most advanced technologies are not only available to large enterprises who can afford to maintain an expensive IT staff, but can be accessed by anybody with an internet connection. That’s a real game changer.
One thing is clear. We no longer have to wonder whether or not technology is threatening to upend our business. Rest assured, we’re all being disrupted now."
One sentence really stood out to me: "The winners will prevail not by dominating the value chain, but through making it easy for developers to collaborate and for users to adopt the technology cheaply and easily."
I am looking to invest in a company with a product that does this. Any suggestions?
"IF , IF ,IF "
Can't imagine what you are doing on a speculative stock message board if you are not willing to accept "IF" in the equation.
Try a money market fund instead.
"any pops will be sold,PERIOD..End of story."
What complete NONSENSE.
If next week it is announced that GlassWare will be incorporated into all ChromeBook school installations, the share price would not benefit greatly?
If next week NovaRad announced dozens of their customers are buying GlassWare, the share price would not benefit greatly?
If next week short sellers came to the conclusion that they have squeezed all the juice out of this lemon that they can, the share price would not benefit greatly?
You don't seem to understand that with a disruptive technology like Sphere3D has, great progress can come at any time and the effects can have huge upward effects upon tightly held, illiquid shares like ANY.
NSDQ 300 6.13
ARCX 100 6.13
BATY 100 6.13
UBSS 600 6.12
Actual real live buying at the ask going on at $6.17.
May be the beginning of a turn around.