Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

[viking86]

looks like Michael Keen will be indeed instrumental in landing new partnerships with strategic players to make ANY a one-stop shop for virtualization solutions. One of the first may likely be LiquidwareLabs (LWL) who seems to be a VDI powerhouse. Here is an interesting interview with a LWL executive that clearly shows what LWL does. I found this excerpt particularly interesting re. the verticals that Sphere 3D tries to get into:

Krokidas: The biggest difference is that all the major desktop vendors - including VMware, Citrix and the hardware dealers too - are taking VDI very seriously and making impressive advancements in the practicality of the technology. The cost to deploy is coming down while performance is going up. As a result, more organizations are looking into desktop virtualization. However, in the commercial sector, it still largely seems to be smaller deployments around very specific use-cases to virtualize particular groups in the organization -- like supporting offshore developers, field personnel, etc. -- rather than wholesale desktop virtualization. The exceptions to this are education, health care and federal agencies which have other reasons -- tied to economics, security and compliance - that make widespread desktop virtualization essential for their environments.

http://vmblog.com/archive/2014/06/30/q-a-interview-with-liquidware-labs-talking-about-vdi-challenges-the-market-and-solutions.aspx#.U8vDz0CgS-p