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this is the same promo video we have seen before, but now with a voice over.
one of the things that is most exciting about Sphere/V3 is they can operate as a drop-in solution. Its hard to overstate just how important that is when it comes to selling the product. When Stoney Hall visits a hospital etc, he will not be asking IT to overhaul their current architecture, or change existing relationships, he will be saying let us just drop-in a V3/Glassware appliance and trial it. It will work with your existing system, doesn't matter if its Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft etc. See if you notice any difference, see if you notice any change in performance, see if we can better virtualize applications that you've had trouble with to date, let us securely virtualize applications that run on OS's that are no longer supported, or applications that require a different OS to the one currently running on your server. Glassware can put an application icon onto your VDI desktop, your RDSH desktop, or your PC/Device desktop.
That becomes a much easier decision for the IT department!
Nice summary of Peter's presentation JB3729! Also interesting is that Peter said the applications are session based. I believe this is why sphere does not need a hypervisor, and a reason the applications can directly access bare metal hardware leading to lower latency.
Also from Cormark securities
Low latency – User connectivity to applications is faster, almost instant, compared to other available solutions given Glassware is session based and allows the complete computing to take place in the cloud.
Donkschmonk, Great suggestion! I totally agree. Posting in a private forum without all the nonsense would be far more enjoyable. And being a fellow traveller in that private forum I think you are referring to, I can also attest that it works very well!
has this been posted here before? video of Peters presentation at Cantech.
Interesting article and study
link to the article
Outdated mainframes putting businesses in debt
and the study the article refers to
Vanson Bourne Study
Is this exactly the kind of scenario that Glassware can provide a solution?
pbookman, great to have you contributing here.
I just finished reading this article from one of your recent tweets
MT @bridgetbotelho @VirtDesktopTT #NVIDIA vGPUs support #VMware Horizon 3D graphics searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/news/224021669… >Check it out! We improve this!
LOL, no doubt you will shake out a few people.
I did like this from your previous post
The deal with Overland looks really kinky to me.
mensplus, I could easily add another 10+ negatives to your list. But at the end of the day I believe they have something valuable their competition doesn't. Will that lead to commercial success? it may not, but my bet is it will.
If we do not see visible commercial progress this year, your concerns are definitely valid, but I think its still to early to judge. I do think a lot has happened in the last couple of months to prepare for commercial success.
The stock price has run up a lot and quickly, so it would not surprise me to see it drop. But Im not a seller. It could just as easily move higher.
jmo
The tech discussion in this article from brianmadden.com is very interesting
Does VMware's evolution from View to Horizon DaaS mean that RDSH sessions and seamless apps are coming?
While VMWare grapples with its virtualization solutions, Glassware already provides a superior solution using both session-based and virtual instance technology to seamlessly deliver applications to end users. But the real magic is that ANY application can be loaded onto a glassware server using emulation technology, something that VMWare cannot do. Thats why (as reported by Van) the healthcare company at HIMSS had difficulty getting their custom enterprise application run on other virtualization offerings and were so impressed to see it easily and seamlessly run on glassware. And its also the reason Stoney Hall has hitched his lot with this company.. AND Pinetree Capital's Chairman & CEO continues to BUY
Interesting article in FT about the problems for enterprise applications written for Windows XP now that Microsoft is dropping support for it, particularly in relation to security.
End of Windows XP support puts ATMs at risk
(nb. You need to be a subscriber to view the article)
The gist of the story is that 40% of all PCs still use Windows XP and that 95% of applications for ATMs are written for XP, and the challenge is that many companies have built their own software that is only compatible with XP so rebuilding will be expensive and ironing bugs out of the new version would take time.
Glassware to the rescue ???
Yes, the Play MPE stats have been increasing rapidly in the last 3 to 4 weeks. Steve did give some clue on how they are remunerated in a recent CC
But the other thing that's happening is, especially with independents is they will now take their content off this site and they will blog it. So, it will show up in Twitter, it will show up in their Facebook, anywhere that they are out marketing their system. They are building awareness for our system. So, what its doing is its driving demand for both the labels to use the system and to pay us, but it's also creating demand for recipients to log into their Play MPE account to get the latest music. It's also going to drive usage in another way, and that's if I see a song come through the Play It , the daily site, and I didn't receive it on my Play MPE account, I now have a way to contact the record label, and say hey, how come you didn't send that to me. And every time they add a new recipient, that's another $0.50 in revenue for us
A release can be a single, a bundle, an album, a box set or a video. As an example, an album release with ten songs sent to 500 recipients would be 500 sends and 5,000 deliveries.
Overland will also present at ROTH investor conference
Overland to present at Roth Investor conference
here it is
Sphere 3D has been working closely with V3 for several months and commenced shipping of V3 Appliances to customers in January 2014. Sphere 3D and its global licensee, Overland Storage Inc. (NASDAQ: OVRL), have expanded their relationship to include the V3 offering and will embed some of Overland’s award winning Network Assisted Storage (NAS) and Clustered Storage technology within the product suite to create new Software Defined Storage capability. Overland will deliver both the Sphere 3D and V3 products through Overland’s extensive global network of channel partners and service providers.
Sphere/V3 updated promo video
Sphere V3 Video
Thanks SLEE123455, your feedback is very helpful. I have also been watching for greater usage in new territories. The Aussie announcement is great news. Yes lets hope they can eventually get similar penetration in UK/Germany. Incremental adoption is slow but once adopted it becomes entrenched.
Thanks for sharing SLEE123455
Did they talk at all about:
growth in Play MPE?
potential for watermark licenses?
TIA
Excellent! Thanks for providing valuable feedback. Very exciting..
I don't quite follow how Sphere can fit a house full of data into a toaster size device. Do you mean sphere can give BYOD/Cloud access to the data using a toaster size device?
Thanks for the info. I also love this deal. Everything is evolving very rapidly!
Check this video just uploaded on youtube by V3 + Sphere.
Video
deleted message
Year End Conference Call
PRESS RELEASE
Feb. 21, 2014, 6:30 a.m. EST
Hydrogenics to Host Fourth Quarter and Year End Conference Call on March 7, 2014
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Feb 21, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Hydrogenics Corporation HYGS -1.00% CA:HYG -0.11% ("Hydrogenics" or "the Company"), a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen-based power modules, today announced that it will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. Eastern on March 7, 2014 for the fourth quarter and twelve months ended December 31, 2013. Earnings will be issued before the market opens that day, and the filing of the company's results with the appropriate regulatory bodies will follow. During the call, Daryl Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Bob Motz, Chief Financial Officer, will review the company's financial results. The telephone number for the conference call is 877-307-1373 or, for international callers, 678-224-7873. A live webcast of the call will also be available on the company's website, www.hydrogenics.com .
An archived copy of the conference call and webcast will be available on the company's website, www.hydrogenics.com , approximately six hours following the call.
About Hydrogenics
Hydrogenics Corporation is a world leader in engineering and building the technologies required to enable the acceleration of a global power shift. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Hydrogenics provides hydrogen generation, energy storage and hydrogen power modules to its customers and partners around the world. Hydrogenics has manufacturing sites in Germany, Belgium and Canada and service centers in Russia, Europe, the US and Canada.
from V3's white paper
nice explanation of V3's tech
V3 - VDI's Fatal Flaw
A V3 Systems solution addresses the traditional performance bottleneck in three key ways:
1. V3 virtual desktop host appliances contain local storage and compute components within each server appliance (no SAN required for VDI). The OS and apps for each user reside in local storage and are directly accessible to the CPU at the bus level via a PCIe or SATA protocols. This provides a level of throughput (read/write requests and actual read/writes) impossible for even the best SAN-based traditional
VDI deployment.
2. All local storage within a V3 appliance consists of certified solid-state Flash offering the fastest
possible reads/writes available in a desktop virtualization use case.
3. V3 optimizes the deployment of virtual desktops in several ways to fully take advantage of the direct communication of the compute and storage components contained within each V3 server appliance.
The combination of these three methods results in a high-performance VDI solution that completely eliminates the traditional VDI performance bottleneck at scale while also eliminating the need for a significant SAN deployment or upgrade.
Glassware + 3V = less hardware = less power = global warming solution!
Apparently its also a BYOD cross-platform solution :)
the video is quite funny!
interesting article tweeted by Peter Bookman a few days ago
Why mobility matters
Thanks for the post Abbam. Im curious as to why you don't think there are synergies? As a non-techie I'm trying to understand it.
V3 has been designed to deliver VDI, but for Sphere I didnt think it was necessarily about VDI, I thought it was more about purpose built hardware and software to provide better virtualization performance. So cant V3 also be used to deliver individual applications and create better performance for Glassware generally, sending the applications out to larger end user pools with less hardware? Isn't the reason it provides better performance is because it contains purpose built hardware utilizing the benefits of flash based SSD? and they have developed some software to manage end user pools?
Would be great to get your feedback
TIA
terrific DD and posting Strufte! as has been much of the posting here over the last couple of days...
nice work pharminvestor
Our Desktop Cloud Computing Appliances deliver 25 – 400 virtual Windows® desktops per unit, with guaranteed performance that is 2x – 8x faster than physical desktops.
Notable quotes from the last cc, highlighting DSNY's own internal expectations:
As I made clear earlier in the year, this soft launch period was planned and expected. It's why Microsoft puts out new versions of Windows after launch or why Google does limited invite-only Lab versions of new software. You need to release the product into the world to get this early feedback. There's so many different computer types, source video types, and you don't know what is going to confuse a new user unless you let them try it.
So it's only been just over five weeks since we press released our launch and only three weeks since the last version, and that includes the Christmas holiday period. I talked to a lot of investors, and I find many have unrealistic expectations, thinking we'd get our first multimillion dollar deal within days of making the product publicly available. That's not realistic, and no one here inside the Company expected that.
On the other hand, I find some of these same investors underestimate just how big this opportunity is or how much of it we might achieve. We see this as a $1 billion revenue opportunity at current size, and video usage is growing around 100 percent per year rate now. It's a great space to be invested in, and we have the only cross-platform solution in one of the hottest sectors.
good post danross. I came across HTFBS after researching Sphere 3D. If it wasn't for HTFBS, I would not have discovered XXII or Destiny. Like all investment newsletters its up to the subscriber to decide the merits of a recommendation.
Ive followed Destiny for 5 months and made my first purchases last week. There have been some pretty big expectations built up around this stock, but listening to the company itself, I cant see any evidence they are not meeting their own internal expectations. The company already has a proven track record with Play MPE, which is a great little niche business. Theres no reason they cant replicate this success with Clipstream, and they can draw on their past experiences from launching Play MPE.
Clipstream went live was a couple of months ago and I'm willing to give it a lot more time than that. If Clipstream doesnt work out, I think Play MPE is a good safety net, which still has the potential to grow much larger.
jmo
I'm with you
Heres a sample of Play MPE deliveries in the last hour.
02/14 12:26AM EST EMI Music Australia Bundle 1456
02/14 12:09AM EST EMI Music Australia Single 1392
02/14 12:01AM EST EMI Music Australia Single 1357
02/13 11:51PM EST EMI Music Australia Single 1480
02/13 11:37PM EST Domino Single 1073
02/13 11:31PM EST EMI Music Australia Single 1371
02/13 11:26PM EST Virgin EMI Album 149
The company employees sending these are not concerned with the drop in stock price or pump & dumps.
Sorry, just realized that Pepsiman had already posted this video
thanks, good video. The key take aways - a "drop in" solution and "performance, performance, performance" !!
Also check out this video
V3 101
it explains nicely V3's capability to expand VDI to many more users while at the same time increasing performance
thanks,
it will also be very interesting to read the non-disclosed information when it becomes publicly available on the closing of the deal - 28th Feb
The purchase seems like an awfully good price for what they are getting
yes that was a great line.
Also music to my ears was that Sphere/V3 can provide a "DROP IN" solution saving enterprises big dollars and that they do not necessarily see themselves as competitors to other virtualization companies such as Citrix, but rather they can work symbiotically with them to improve their offerings so that everyone makes money!
My understanding is the end user never waits. Once the icon is made available by the server, they just click it and the app loads in a few seconds.
on the server side, the application, webpage or whatever is to be delivered, initially needs to be installed which may take a minute or so, but thats a once only process.
Peter Tassiopoulos said;
"I wouldn’t call it an operating system; I would actually say it’s the anti-operating system"
I think thats whats neat about Glassware. On the server side, it cuts out the middle man, the OS and thus the cross-platform issues that different OS's create. And they solve the hardware cross-platform issue with emulation.
So I think the app loads quickly for the end user because
1. there is no OS
2. processing speed is determined by the server, not the BYOD
3. on the server side, glassware has a unique system that combines a software server, admin server and emulation server to coordinate the application emulation session.
jmo
Overland 2nd quarter results cc next Thursday
Overland cc
Overland to speak at New York Data Center Summit. Looks like a good opportunity to network and show off Glassware and it cloud capabilities. Goldman Sachs etc will be there.
NY data center summit