Completely agree Pepsi. I basically said the same thing in this message a while back:

"Why don't we stick to those things we KNOW that Sphere is actually involved in or that even if Sphere isn't mentioned, something in the article would lead one to believe that it is a really good possibility that they are.

Otherwise we are just giving the bashers ammunition to claim that we are pumping and don't know what we are talking about."

"If TECH is your forté,... then why don't you attend one of the sessions showing GW and come back and tell us it's weaknesses,.."

My forte' is actually shorting stocks. Like I have said I am short 40 equities right now. To make a profit shorting stocks you have to short actual bad companies OR if you short what turns out to be a good company, then you have to create the illusion that you know more than anyone else and try to create doubt. I am really good at that, but it is getting much harder to do with a fine company like Sphere 3D as they gain partnerships with large companies and their technology gets more and more validation by ACTUAL EXPERTS in the tech world.

And since I have never been able to find any tech expert who has written that GlassWare 2.0 doesn't do what the company claims, about all I can do now is argue with message board posters about things the company hasn't even claimed.

This is getting to be no fun at all.

Great stuff:

https://twitter.com/search?q=sphere3d&mode=users

WOW! 60 more people for those sly Sphere dudes to BAMBOOZLE.

Just have to comment because I find this so incredible.

I will not mention the name of the poster because that of course is taboo.

But I don't think there is anything that could be dumber than to put a market order in on a stock like ANY before the market opens.

Someone actually did that and then complained that he got screwed by the market makers. Then over the next several days proceeded to tell everyone how to trade stocks.

I think I must be living in Bizarro World.

"Why post these videos,... Are we involved somehow,...?"

Totally agree with you cabel. It is bad enough that several times a day someone posts an article with something to do about the cloud, storage, virtualization, etc. and then SPECULATES that maybe Sphere could possibly be involved. Even worse is to post things that we know for sure that Sphere IS NOT involved in.

Why don't we stick to those things we KNOW that Sphere is actually involved or that even if Sphere isn't mentioned, something in the article would lead one to believe that it is a really good possibility that they are.

Otherwise we are just giving the bashers ammunition to claim that we are pumping and don't know what we are talking about.

Forgot about this quote:

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.”

"I actually agree, Chairman. There will be niches (ie New Caney) that ANY can find some success here and there."

Ah yes. Education is just a niche market.

And, Healthcare is just a niche market.

And Telecom is just a niche market.

And, storage is just a niche market.

And, Azure is just a niche market.

To almost quote Everett Dirksen, A niche market here & a niche market there and pretty soon you're talking about REAL NICHES.

WOW! I am really impressed. If Sphere is able to BAMBOOZLE all these tech experts, customers & partners, they must be really good.

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."

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."

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."

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.”
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.”

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."

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."

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.”

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.”

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.

Simon Bramfitt says: "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."

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.”

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 Asure cloud ecosystem.”

Basic facts & logic exercise:

Premise - Sphere 3D's relationship with Microsoft is just like all the thousands of other of their partnerships.

Facts:

Microsoft people have said that they expect Sphere to be one of their most important partners and that GlassWare fills a gap for them. They are collaborating in an unusual number of functions with Sphere if Sphere was "just another" of thousands of partners. They are sending an executive to be the keynote speaker at Spheres' investment forum next week. They have jointly made a video with Sphere. They have praised Sphere management for quickly & efficiently completing whatever the project was that Microsoft had them do.

Eric Kelly has made the following statements:

"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."

Logic: Do these facts support the premise.

Conclusion: Quite unlikely. Any reasonable person would take all this information as, at a minimum, very positive for Sphere 3D and potentially propelling the company into the big leagues of containerization, virtualization and storage.

"Next week could be a good week or a realllllyyy bad week.'

WOW! That is really profound. Now that I know that I know what to do.

So, did you short some shares today?

You have to ask yourself why more and more long positions are happening. These aren't dumb traders. They are highly educated traders working with more money than most of us will ever have. They aren't talking about why they're buying because they're smarter than you and I. But, they have their reasons and we'll soon find out what those are. You're taking advice from a message board, they're taking their advice from the experts.

"A retrace to 4.20s tomorrow is due imo."

If you believe that, did you short it today?

You don't see the comparison only because you DON'T WANT TO SEE THE COMPARISON. So I guess I'll have to explain it to you.

It had nothing to do with revenues or mergers. It had to do with the incessant attempts by the professional bashers to use the Corel "failure" to try to paint the company a certain way while completely ignoring all the other successful happenings at Sphere like the validation of its technology, and the partnerships with important tech players.

I imagine in just about every successful business there have been occasions where a particular product or association didn't work out. To attempt to create a picture of a company solely baded on a failure would be disingenuous to say the least. Capeesh?

Honda makes good cars. Honda is a very successful company. Yet years ago they came up with a model called the Insight. It was a failure.

Listening to the professional bashers use Corel as their biggest short argument against Sphere today would be like someone bashing Honda because of Insight.

But I guess if that's all you got, that's what you gotta go with.

Love your story Mac. Hits the nail on the head.

Things that go bump in the night.

If I was short I would be VERY AFRAID.

Sphere share price April 30th - $3.14. Short interest - 1,516,002

Sphere share price May 15th - $3.84. Short interest - 1,832,365

So short interest went up 316,363 shares while price rose 23%.

Of course the price today is about $4.30 which represents an additional gain of 12% and it wouldn't surprise me that short interest has gone up another few hundred thousand shares.

Have to wonder how long things can continue like this before even the most staunch shorts come to the realization that they are on the wrong side of this situation. The old stock market saying about pigs getting slaughtered doesn't just apply to being long.

Some quotes from Russinovich:

Microsoft was built on top of Windows. Now it is built on top of Azure.

Partner ecosystem is where you are going to see a lot of momentum going forward.

Question to him: Any other small areas that you are excited about?

Containers is one that I'm really excited about. There's some cool stuff that I'm working on that unfortunately I can't talk about.

Because this space is so new and so disruptive, the old rules are being thrown out and new ones come in.

Ah yes, back to the old question that I have asked you and every other professional Sphere basher: Can you quote any tech expert who has written that GlassWare 2.0 DOES NOT DO what the company claims? None of you have been able to come up with a response other than something dumb like...well they won't let anyone test it. That of course is nonsense.

But getting back to GasWare. If Chevy holds joint seminars with the GasWare people demonstrating what the product can do in conjunction with its G-Series, you can bet your bippy that plenty of people are going to want to buy it.

OK, so let's say Chevrolet puts out a new model of car. Call it the G-Series.

Then a small company invents a gadget (let's call it GasWare) that can be attached to the carburetor in the G-Series Chevrolet. Those who buy the G-Series with GasWare find that they get 20 more miles per gallon.

Now, it doesn't mean that GasWare had anything to do with the development or basic functioning of the G-Series Chevy or that the car won't run without GasWare. But, how many people might want to buy their G-Series Chevrolet with GasWare rather than without?

It would warm the cockles of my heart to know that the same people who are short ANY are also short Pixelworks (PXLW). It would be a double whammy today.

"stay tuned... eventually all is revealed... "

But I would like to learn how this story ends now. Is there a hard cover version I could buy? Or if it's a video, can I get it through Netflix?

" From an objective stance, Sphere and Microsoft aren't partners in any way."

Objectively speaking, it is obvious you have no clue as to what the term "partner" means.

My comment was about your use of the word objective not about the validity of either positive or negative subjective messages.

Do you know exactly what Spheres relationship is with Microsoft? Does GlassWare really "fill in needs" for Microsofts Azure program that they were not able to do themselves? Do you believe the Microsoft reps statement that Sphere will become one of their most important partners? Do you believe Mr. Kellys' statement that this is just the beginning of Spheres relationship with Microsoft? Is there a valid reason why Kelly keeps using the term strategic alliance when referencing Spheres' relationship with Microsoft?

If you can't answer these questions, you cannot judge whose messages are factual and whose are not.

"me = a form of the obsessive "

That could be the singularly most truthful thing you have ever posted on this message board.

Hey sons, it looks like great minds think alike.

However your great mind is about 2 minutes quicker than mine.

This person seems to have an entirely different take on the value and market for SnapCloud than our resident Sphere basher.

"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 styles.

"While many IT organizations want to embrace the cloud, 90 percent of the organizations we surveyed have policies in place that restrict certain types of data from being stored in a third-party cloud," said McClure in prepared remarks. "These organizations are looking for hybrid cloud solutions to fit these needs, rather than adopting multiple point products."

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."


I am trying to decide who to believe about this. Should I believe the Sphere basher who has never said anything good about the company, its products and any of its deals and partnerships? Or should I believe an actual analyst in the field who is neutral? I am open to suggestions.

4th day in a row that shorts have been unsuccessful in keeping the price below $4. Came close, but no cigar. All it means is more shares short, more to be covered, and less available. Hot diggity doo.

"We need to put sildenafil into Glassware so he can get excited"

Or maybe some Scotch or Bourbon.

Hugos' and the rest of the professional bashers response to all Sphere 3D news:

Sphere 3D Introduces SnapCLOUD(TM) Virtual Enterprise Storage Platform for Cloud - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D and Novarad Enter Into Master Purchase Agreement to Deliver Virtualization Capabilities to 400 Healthcare Facilities - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D Signs Strategic Alliance Agreement to Expand Digital Learning in Public Schools - I just don't find it exciting at all.

LISA Scientific Research Institution Selects Sphere 3D's SnapScale to Meet Rapid Data Growth Needs - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere3D Awarded New Patents for Peer Set Data Protection Technology Designed for Hyperscale Environments - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D and Microsoft to Showcase Virtualization and Cloud Solutions - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D Announces Strategic Alliance With Atos to Provide Virtualization Solutions - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D Announces Availability of New RDX QuikStor Backup Appliance - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Jefferson Homebuilders Selects Sphere 3D for Data Archive and Retrieval - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D's V3 Hyper-Converged Platforms Now Available Through Promark - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D Glassware Delivers Solutions for Digital Learning Environments - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D Announces Glassware 2.0 Support for Google Drive - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D and Microsoft to Deliver Glassware 2.0 Windows Application Containers on Microsoft Azure - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D's Glassware 2.0 Meets Standards for Safe, Secure Delivery of Pearson TestNav 7.5 on Chromebooks - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D''s V3 Hyper-Converged Appliance Shows Leading Linear Scalability and Desktop Workload Performance - I just don't find it exciting at all.

Sphere 3D develops cure for Cancer - I just don't find it exciting at all.

".no I'm not selling but I will keep complaining until and if this makes me a multi-millionaire..'

Sorry A&C, but that may be the most ridiculous statement ever made on a stock message board. But if Sphere does make you a millionaire and you enjoy complaining all the way there, have at it.

If I were short I would be VERY WORRIED.

Shorts need to be able to be in control. And for the past many months they have been. But for the 3rd consecutive day their coordinated attempt to drive the price below $4 and keep it there has FAILED.

That means they are using up capital and burning up available short shares without accomplishing anything but getting deeper into the hole. Hopefully tomorrows presentation will be exciting enough to bury them in that hole. If not it is only a matter of time.

AND NOW THERE IS SnapCloud

(PMZN) Sphere 3D Introduces SnapCLOUD(TM) Virtual Enterprise Storage Platform for Cloud

Last update: 26/05/2015 11:21:36 am


Sphere 3D Introduces SnapCLOUD(TM) Virtual Enterprise Storage Platform for Cloud

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 26, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sphere 3D Corp. (Nasdaq:ANY), a virtualization and data management solutions provider, today announced SnapCLOUD(TM), its new cloud integrated virtual storage platform, designed to deliver fully-featured enterprise NAS functionality in the cloud.

"Explosive data growth across the enterprise and a demand for anywhere, anytime access is creating a new set of challenges for data protection, management and mobility. While many IT organizations want to embrace the cloud, 90% of the organizations we surveyed have policies in place that restrict certain types of data from being stored in a third-party cloud. These organizations are looking for hybrid cloud solutions to fit these needs, rather than adopting multiple point products," said Terri McClure, Sr. Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. "With SnapCLOUD as part of its portfolio of software defined storage solutions, 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."

Built on Sphere 3D's proprietary, powerful, and simple to use GuardianOS(R) software architecture, SnapCLOUD extends the flexibility and options for customers to obtain unlimited storage in the cloud while maintaining full compatibility with existing SnapServer(R) and SnapScale(R) enterprise storage deployments. This interoperability between on premise and cloud deployments makes it possible for current SnapServer customers to have a SnapCLOUD instance integrated into their current infrastructure in minutes, enabling hybrid cloud models almost instantaneously.

"Sphere 3D's SnapCLOUD is built on an award-winning platform that is field proven in data center deployments worldwide, and has been trusted by customers to store and protect their data for over a decade," said Eric Kelly, CEO Sphere 3D. "Whether customers require a public, private or hybrid cloud model, the ability to address their needs for data growth, high-availability, back-up, and disaster recovery has never been easier."

SnapCLOUD supports critical performance and capacity features like high performance snapshots, replication, and block and file-level access. With the SnapCLOUD built-in sync and share functionality, customers also get data access anywhere, anytime on any device without the need for additional third-party subscriptions. Customers will be able to purchase up to 32TB of SnapCLOUD storage per image in the Microsoft(R) Azure(TM) Marketplace by purchasing 1GB increments on a pay-for-use basis.

In addition, Sphere 3D's Snap Server Manager(TM) ("SSM"), the web-based data management orchestration tool for SnapServer and SnapScale appliances, has been expanded to manage SnapCLOUD instances. SSM now allow customers to centrally manage their entire physical and virtual enterprise storage infrastructure whether local or in the cloud.

SnapCLOUD, which will be available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace in July 2015, is uniquely positioned to unify data manageability, access and, replication between a physical data center and a public cloud enabling a global hybrid cloud architecture. To register for an advanced technical preview please visit http://sphere3d.com/request-consultation

Reseller partners interested in learning more about Sphere 3D's virtual cloud storage solutions are invited to join Sphere 3D for this exclusive event by registering at: http://sphere3d.com/events/microsoft-azure/index.html.

What an incredibly lame answer. You must have misread the question which was:

Can you quote any tech expert who has written that GlassWare 2.0 DOES NOT DO WHAT THE COMPANY CLAIMS?

The 451 article made it very clear that they knew little about GlassWare so they "were puzzled" why the company was putting their main emphasis on it. Talk about terrible research. But even accepting that, nowhere in their article did they say that GlassWare DOES NOT DO what the company claims.

So the only example you are able to come up with does not even come close to answering the question I asked.

And blaming your failure to come up with a quote on Sphere not giving GlassWare to every Tom, Dick or Hugo who wants it is really lame.

They are giving it to the people who count like Microsoft, Novarad, Promark, Atos, New Caney, etc. They all seem to believe that GlassWare does indeed do what the company claims.

So you still have not come up with any tech expert who has written that GlassWare doesn't do what the company claims. I will keep asking you this question until you either come up with someone who will say that or until you ADMIT that GlassWare does do what the company claims.

Good morning Hubeiko. Glad to see you are in such a good mood. Since I know you are always willing to engage in reasonable conversation and respond to important questions about Sphere, I can only assume that you failed to read the message I addressed to you yesterday. I will repeat it because I know you are more than capable to answer this simple question.

I have asked this of you, Keubiko, who of course is also you, flyboys, techstocksfordummies, zigzagjones, etc.

So here it is again:

Can you quote any tech expert who has written that GlassWare 2.0 DOES NOT DO WHAT THE COMPANY CLAIMS?

Pretty simple question. You could answer NO. Or you could answer yes and then provide the quote and its source. Or, if you don't know what the company claims, go to their website. It is full of stuff they claim GlassWare can do that nothing else on the market can do. The amazing thing is that it used to be that the shorts main argument was that GlassWare was useless and couldn't do what the company claimed.

A man of your vast knowledge should have absolutely no problem answering this. So once and for all, CAN YOU ANSWER THAT ONE SIMPLE QUESTION?

YO HUGO.

I see you are in a question answering mood. That means you must be willing to answer the question that over many, many months I have been asking every Sphere basher who I have come across.

I have asked this of you, Keubiko, who of course is also you, flyboys, techstocksfordummies, zigzagjones, etc.

So here it is again:

Can you quote any tech expert who has written that GlassWare 2.0 DOES NOT DO WHAT THE COMPANY CLAIMS?

Pretty simple question. You could answer NO. Or you could answer yes and then provide the quote and its source. Or, if you don't know what the company claims, go to their website. It is full of stuff they claim GlassWare can do that nothing else on the market can do. The amazing thing is that it used to be that the shorts main argument was that GlassWare was useless and couldn't do what the company claimed.

A man of your vast knowledge should have absolutely no problem answering this. So once and for all, CAN YOU ANSWER THAT ONE SIMPLE QUESTION?

They can probably sit around after the interview and complain to each other about those nasty people at Sphere 3D who won't let them get near GlassWare.

This all sounds very familiar.

http://pennysleuth.com/avoid-the-next-short-seller-attack/

and this too:

"I think it's a mistake to assume a binary scenario (eg either a smoking hole in the ground or a massive home run). "

Completely disagree. That has always been the scenario and will continue to be. The cloud, virtualization, container, storage areas are huge and growing. If GlassWare 2.0 is indeed something that (as the company and now Microsoft seem to claim) does things that other products do not do, Sphere will be able to capture some of this huge market. And if they do, even a small share of that market can result in revenues and earnings to justify a share price of 10 times what it is now. To me that is a HOME RUN. AND if they capture a sizeable share, it will be more like a grand slam home run in the bottom of the ninth to win the game by a run.

On the other hand, if it is a complete bust, the company will go broke and the share price will go down $4.18. I like my odds of success better than your odds of failure. Especially since not one of you professional bashers have ever been able to answer the question I have asked of you dozens of times, which is:

Can you quote any tech expert who has written that GlassWare 2.0 DOES NOT DO WHAT THE COMPANY CLAIMS?

I have asked this of you, Keubiko, who of course is also you, flyboys, techstocksfordummies, zigzagjones and every other Sphere basher I have come across. Still no response.

Only my opinion, but in watching the trading the last couple of days, it looks like the shorts are beginning to lose their ability to control the share price.

This morning they made a sincere attempt to take the share price below $4. It failed.

Near the close, they made a real attempt to see that the shares closed at a loss for the day. It failed.

If they lose the ability to control the price, it marks the beginning of the end for them. At some point you have to wonder if they are not here just due to stubborness. If you are looking to short a stock, is ANY really the best one you can find. I really doubt it.

One of the favorite sayings of shorts when a stock makes big gains and they want longs to sell is: "Pigs get slaughtered".

Works both ways.