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School system CIOs are sold on Chromebooks
That support is giving Chromebooks a market anchor, with 5.2M expected to be sold this year

By Patrick Thibodeau
August 11, 2014 05:28 PM ET

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250304/School_system_CIOs_are_sold_on_Chromebooks?source=rss_news_analysis&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fs%2Ffeed%2Ftype%2Fnewsanalysis+(Computerworld+News+Analysis)

How big will this be for Sphere3D if most of these school systems team up with them for Glassware 2.0 like Chesterfield County Schools did.

"Chesterfield County Schools Turn to Sphere 3D for Windows on Chromebooks

. Taking on the complexity of managing a large Citrix XenApp environment was not something that CCPS wanted to have to address. At the same time, it wanted to ensure that any hosted Windows applications could be easily integrated into its own application portal. To overcome the challenges, CCPS has partnered with Mississauga, Ontario–based Sphere 3D, developers of Glassware 2.0, to provide Windows application hosting services. Sphere 3D provides Glassware 2.0 as an appliance-based hosting platform for installation either within a customer’s data center or as a cloud hosting solution offered by service providers. Sphere 3D company V3 Systems was one of the pioneers of high-performance VDI appliances, so it is to be expected that it knows how to make this approach work."