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Tuesday, April 07, 2015 12:53:44 PM
Wow, check this out!: ANY's 2014 focus as per its annual filing was clearly on (copied directly from the annual filing):
New Products
During 2014, in connection with our acquisition of the V3 Systems for its VDI technology assets and our acquisition of Overland, the Company has added the following products to its data management and data protection solutions.
Virtual Desktop Management Software
The Desktop Cloud Orchestrator ® (“DCO”) provides a simple user-friendly interface for managing virtual desktop pools on Sphere 3D’s Desktop Cloud V3 Hyper-Converged Appliances for virtualized desktop infrastructures, allowing desktop administrators to quickly create, move, delete and manage desktop pools without requiring extensive knowledge of a VMWare environment. DCO significantly simplifies key tasks that a desktop administrator would need from the underlying system infrastructure built with VMware ® View, vCenter, and vSphere into one centralized console. Its key features include: (i) desktop cloud infrastructure dashboard, which provides status of key attributes of the virtual environment; (ii) optimized desktop allocation, which enables pool migration across network resources; (iii) pool management, which allows simplified pool creation and management; and (iv) diagnostics, which provide information about vital performance indicators such as BIOS, processor, memory, temperature and fan status and log file downloading capabilities.
Software-Defined Storage Software
Our RAINcloud ® OS storage software is designed for our SnapScale series of clustered scale-out data storage solutions that are optimized for cloud and distributed enterprise environments. The software includes software-defined storage services that automatically execute operational data management and data protection operations without requiring manual intervention. The data mobility tools included in RAINcloud ® OS enable customers to build private clouds for sharing and synchronizing data for anywhere, anytime access. In November 2014, RAINcloud ® OS version 4.1 was released, which included several enhancements to its access protocol with support of SMB 2.0 and NFS V4, along with other performance and security features. The new release also supported non-disruptive rolling upgrade feature that in future will allow customers to upgrade to the newer version of the software without experiencing any service downtime.
Our GuardianOS ® storage software is designed for the SnapServer ® family of entry level enterprise network attached storage (“NAS”) devices and delivers simplified data management and consolidation throughout distributed IT environments by combining cross-platform file sharing with block-level data access on a single device. The flexibility and scalability of GuardianOS ® reduces the total cost of ownership of storage infrastructures. In addition to a unified storage architecture, GuardianOS ® offers data storage scalability through features such as DynamicRAID ® , centralized storage management, and a comprehensive suite of data protection tools. Since August 2014, for customers who have the need to synchronize and share their data between different devices, BitTorrent Sync ™ functionality has been integrated as part of the GuardianOS software.
The Company's Snap Enterprise Data Replicator ® (“Snap EDR”) provides multi-directional, WAN-optimized replication for SnapServer ® and SnapScale ® systems. With Snap EDR, administrators can automatically replicate data between multiple SnapServer systems for data distribution, data consolidation, and disaster recovery.
Our AccuGuard ® is a powerful Windows-based backup and recovery data protection software designed to be used with our RDX QuikStor ® and QuikStation ® removable-disk solutions. AccuGuard ® is an easy-to-deploy solution that is designed to protect Windows servers and desktops on physical machines and in virtual environments. AccuGuard ® delivers reliable, automated schedule based backup and recovery utilizing a powerful deduplication engine.
Disk Systems and Virtualization
V3 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
The V3 hyper-converged platform is a turn-key, purpose built and custom tuned appliance for high performance virtual desktop infrastructure. V3 appliances can accommodate from 50 to 200 virtual Windows desktops per appliance. Each appliance is compatible with DCO, described above. V3 appliances simplify desktop virtualization with innovative technology that make it possible to achieve virtual desktop performance that is faster than physical desktops, while hosted from a single 2U-based server appliance. V3 cost benefits are derived from the way the appliances integrates storage, server and networking resources into one hardware device.
RDX ® Removable Disk Solutions
Our RDX ® removable disk media are shock resistant to accommodate accidental falls from the rack, desktop or during transport. The media can also be secured with cartridge encryption for additional levels of security. The Company offers two types of RDX ® media: media with hard drives inside the cartridge and media with solid-state disks inside. Hard drive RDX ® media is designed to provide easy-to-use and reliable data protection, while solid-state disk RDX ® media is designed for customers who are operating in environments that need extreme speed and durability in a portable storage device. RDX ® removable media are available in several different capacity points, ranging from 64GB to 2TB per cartridge.
The RDX QuikStor ® removable-media storage system combines the portability and reliability of tape-based backup with the speed and simplicity of hard disk drives in order to deliver reliable and convenient storage for backup, archive, data interchange and disaster recovery. RDX QuikStor ® drives utilize either hard disk drives or SSD drives, with either SATA or USB 3.0 connectivity, and provide up to 2TB of data storage.
The RDX QuikStation ® is a network-attached removable disk array designed to provide a platform for data protection and off-site disaster recovery for SMB environments. The RDX QuikStation ® can appear to a host as a tape library, a virtual RDX drive, a stand-alone tape drive, generic disk drives or a combination of disk and tape, offering users versatility and expanded compatibility.
In December 2014, the Company rolled out its removable storage technology called RDX+™ (“RDX Plus”), which is designed for the Company's products addressing the fast growing purpose built backup appliance market. RDX Plus is the industry's first software technology designed for 64-bit software architectures that enables support for disk drive capacities greater than 2TB. RDX Plus enabled backup appliances are uniquely differentiated with backward and forward compatibility with our QuikStor appliances as disk drive capacities grow beyond 2TB.
SnapScale ® Clustered Network Attached Storage Solutions
Our SnapScale X2 ® and SnapScale X4 ™ products are clustered NAS solutions that enable organizations with rapid or unpredictable data growth to scale capacity and performance without adding management complexity. SnapScale ® eliminates islands of storage, which enables scaling without having to predict capacity in advance. SnapScale ® writes data across multiple nodes and drives simultaneously for instant protection and high availability. Our SnapScale ® products are designed for high performance, high scalability, and are available for the storage and archiving of unstructured data.
The SnapScale X2 ® is a 2U rackmount, which can be configured with up to 12 Nearline SAS hard drives for a minimum capacity of 24TB per node, and can scale out to 512PB with 2-way or 3-way redundancy.
The SnapScale X4 ™ is a high-density 4U rackmount, which can be configured with up to 36 Nearline SAS hard drives for a minimum capacity of 72TB per node, and can scale out to 512PB with 2-way or 3-way redundancy.
SnapServer ® Network Attached Storage Solutions
Our SnapServer ® solutions are an ideal platform for primary or nearline storage, and deliver stability and best-in-class integration with Windows, UNIX/Linux, and Macintosh environments. For virtual servers and database applications, the SnapServer ® family supports iSCSI block-level access with Microsoft VSS and VDS integration to simplify Windows management. For data protection, the SnapServer ® family offers RAID replication, and snapshots for point-in-time data recovery. The SnapServer DX Series ™ products support DynamicRAID ® and traditional RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10.
The SnapServer ® XSR40 is a 1U server that can be configured with up to four SATA II drives, and can scale to 120 terabytes of storage capacity by adding SnapExpansion enclosures.
The SnapServer ® XSR120 is a 2U server that can be configured with up to 12 SATA II drives, and can scale to 288 terabytes of storage capacity by adding up to seven SnapExpansion enclosures.
SnapSAN ® Storage Area Network Solutions
Our SnapSAN ® products provide block-based primary storage for virtual server environments and low latency applications. Systems can be managed through intuitive management interfaces that employ guided wizards to facilitate easy installation and administration. Our SnapSAN ® products also offer a powerful set of features including thin provisioning, mirroring for high availability, replication and snapshots for data protection.
The SnapSAN ® S3000 is a 2U storage array with options for 1Gb or 10Gb iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or SAS host connections, designed for midrange businesses and offers thin provisioning, volume cloning, synchronous and asynchronous remote replication, snapshots and disk spin down for reduced power consumption. The SnapSAN ® S3000 can scale up to 384TB using the SnapSAN ® Expansions.
The SnapSAN ® S5000 is a 2U storage array with options for 1Gb or 10Gb iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or SAS host connections, designed for the enterprise and offers the same features as the SnapSAN ® S3000 as well as SSD integration for caching and policy-based tiering, performance analysis, and tuning and compliance tools. The SnapSAN ® S5000 can scale up to 384TB using the SnapSAN ® Expansions.
Tape Automation Systems
NEO ® Tape-Based Backup and Long-Term Archive Solutions
Our NEO Series ® Tape Libraries and Autoloaders are designed for small and medium businesses looking for simple, cost-effective data protection, as well as for complex enterprise environments with stringent performance and data availability requirements. The Company provides a broad range of high capacity, high performance, flexible tape-based solutions for data backup, recovery and archive. When combined with our enterprise storage solutions such as SnapServer ® systems or SnapScale ® scale-out NAS arrays, our NEO Series ® products create a complete disk-to-disk-to-tape solution with a variety of storage capacity options. NEO Series ® tape solutions are designed to utilize the latest linear tape-open (“LTO”) technologies, and can accommodate up to 24 tape drives and 1,000 cartridges for maximum efficiency and data protection.
NEO ® XL-Series libraries are designed for mid-range and enterprise businesses and provide automated backup that combines flexibility, density, high-performance and affordability to ensure that data is protected faster and more cost effectively. The NEO ® XL-Series starts with 90TB of data storage capacity, and provides the ability to increase that storage capacity up to a total of 3.5PB. NEO ® XL-Series significantly reduces backup windows and improves efficiency with high-performance data transfer rates that range from 504 GB per hour to over 60TB per hour. The NEOxl 60 supports up to 60 cartridges (with capacity ranging from 90TB to 375TB) and three tape drives (for data transfer rates ranging from 504 GB per hour to 4.3TB per hour). The NEOxl 80 supports up to 80 cartridges (with capacity ranging from 120TB to 500TB) and six tape drives (for data transfer rates ranging from 504 GB per hour to 8.6TB per hour). Up to six 80-cartridge/6-drive NEOxl Expansion Modules can be added to provide a total of 560 cartridges (3.5PB) and 42 tape drives (60TB per hour).
NEO ® S-Series libraries provide affordable tape backup for small and medium businesses. NEO ® S-Series libraries are available in compact rack-mount configurations with either SAS or FC connectivity. The NEOs StorageLoader is a 1U, 8-cartridge, single-drive autoloader that provides up to 50TB of storage capacity. The NEOs T24 is a 2U tape library that supports up to 24 cartridge slots and two tape drives, and delivers up to 150TB of storage capacity. The NEOs T48 is a 4U tape library that supports up to 48 cartridge slots and four tape drives, with a maximum storage capacity of 300TB.
NEO ® E-Series provides scalable, high capacity, enterprise-class tape automation that is ideal for large businesses, incorporating the latest LTO technologies, redundant robotics, partitioning capability, mail slot access, and scalability. The NEO ® 8000e is a 43U tape library that supports up to 500 cartridge slots (up to 3PB) and 12 tape drives (up to 17TB per hour) in a single module. For truly enterprise-class storage requirements, the NEO ® 8000e is scalable up to 1,000 cartridge slots (6PB) and 24 tape drives (24 TB per hour).
What an impressive list, that was all added in 2014!! Somebody has been a busy little bee
New Products
During 2014, in connection with our acquisition of the V3 Systems for its VDI technology assets and our acquisition of Overland, the Company has added the following products to its data management and data protection solutions.
Virtual Desktop Management Software
The Desktop Cloud Orchestrator ® (“DCO”) provides a simple user-friendly interface for managing virtual desktop pools on Sphere 3D’s Desktop Cloud V3 Hyper-Converged Appliances for virtualized desktop infrastructures, allowing desktop administrators to quickly create, move, delete and manage desktop pools without requiring extensive knowledge of a VMWare environment. DCO significantly simplifies key tasks that a desktop administrator would need from the underlying system infrastructure built with VMware ® View, vCenter, and vSphere into one centralized console. Its key features include: (i) desktop cloud infrastructure dashboard, which provides status of key attributes of the virtual environment; (ii) optimized desktop allocation, which enables pool migration across network resources; (iii) pool management, which allows simplified pool creation and management; and (iv) diagnostics, which provide information about vital performance indicators such as BIOS, processor, memory, temperature and fan status and log file downloading capabilities.
Software-Defined Storage Software
Our RAINcloud ® OS storage software is designed for our SnapScale series of clustered scale-out data storage solutions that are optimized for cloud and distributed enterprise environments. The software includes software-defined storage services that automatically execute operational data management and data protection operations without requiring manual intervention. The data mobility tools included in RAINcloud ® OS enable customers to build private clouds for sharing and synchronizing data for anywhere, anytime access. In November 2014, RAINcloud ® OS version 4.1 was released, which included several enhancements to its access protocol with support of SMB 2.0 and NFS V4, along with other performance and security features. The new release also supported non-disruptive rolling upgrade feature that in future will allow customers to upgrade to the newer version of the software without experiencing any service downtime.
Our GuardianOS ® storage software is designed for the SnapServer ® family of entry level enterprise network attached storage (“NAS”) devices and delivers simplified data management and consolidation throughout distributed IT environments by combining cross-platform file sharing with block-level data access on a single device. The flexibility and scalability of GuardianOS ® reduces the total cost of ownership of storage infrastructures. In addition to a unified storage architecture, GuardianOS ® offers data storage scalability through features such as DynamicRAID ® , centralized storage management, and a comprehensive suite of data protection tools. Since August 2014, for customers who have the need to synchronize and share their data between different devices, BitTorrent Sync ™ functionality has been integrated as part of the GuardianOS software.
The Company's Snap Enterprise Data Replicator ® (“Snap EDR”) provides multi-directional, WAN-optimized replication for SnapServer ® and SnapScale ® systems. With Snap EDR, administrators can automatically replicate data between multiple SnapServer systems for data distribution, data consolidation, and disaster recovery.
Our AccuGuard ® is a powerful Windows-based backup and recovery data protection software designed to be used with our RDX QuikStor ® and QuikStation ® removable-disk solutions. AccuGuard ® is an easy-to-deploy solution that is designed to protect Windows servers and desktops on physical machines and in virtual environments. AccuGuard ® delivers reliable, automated schedule based backup and recovery utilizing a powerful deduplication engine.
Disk Systems and Virtualization
V3 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
The V3 hyper-converged platform is a turn-key, purpose built and custom tuned appliance for high performance virtual desktop infrastructure. V3 appliances can accommodate from 50 to 200 virtual Windows desktops per appliance. Each appliance is compatible with DCO, described above. V3 appliances simplify desktop virtualization with innovative technology that make it possible to achieve virtual desktop performance that is faster than physical desktops, while hosted from a single 2U-based server appliance. V3 cost benefits are derived from the way the appliances integrates storage, server and networking resources into one hardware device.
RDX ® Removable Disk Solutions
Our RDX ® removable disk media are shock resistant to accommodate accidental falls from the rack, desktop or during transport. The media can also be secured with cartridge encryption for additional levels of security. The Company offers two types of RDX ® media: media with hard drives inside the cartridge and media with solid-state disks inside. Hard drive RDX ® media is designed to provide easy-to-use and reliable data protection, while solid-state disk RDX ® media is designed for customers who are operating in environments that need extreme speed and durability in a portable storage device. RDX ® removable media are available in several different capacity points, ranging from 64GB to 2TB per cartridge.
The RDX QuikStor ® removable-media storage system combines the portability and reliability of tape-based backup with the speed and simplicity of hard disk drives in order to deliver reliable and convenient storage for backup, archive, data interchange and disaster recovery. RDX QuikStor ® drives utilize either hard disk drives or SSD drives, with either SATA or USB 3.0 connectivity, and provide up to 2TB of data storage.
The RDX QuikStation ® is a network-attached removable disk array designed to provide a platform for data protection and off-site disaster recovery for SMB environments. The RDX QuikStation ® can appear to a host as a tape library, a virtual RDX drive, a stand-alone tape drive, generic disk drives or a combination of disk and tape, offering users versatility and expanded compatibility.
In December 2014, the Company rolled out its removable storage technology called RDX+™ (“RDX Plus”), which is designed for the Company's products addressing the fast growing purpose built backup appliance market. RDX Plus is the industry's first software technology designed for 64-bit software architectures that enables support for disk drive capacities greater than 2TB. RDX Plus enabled backup appliances are uniquely differentiated with backward and forward compatibility with our QuikStor appliances as disk drive capacities grow beyond 2TB.
SnapScale ® Clustered Network Attached Storage Solutions
Our SnapScale X2 ® and SnapScale X4 ™ products are clustered NAS solutions that enable organizations with rapid or unpredictable data growth to scale capacity and performance without adding management complexity. SnapScale ® eliminates islands of storage, which enables scaling without having to predict capacity in advance. SnapScale ® writes data across multiple nodes and drives simultaneously for instant protection and high availability. Our SnapScale ® products are designed for high performance, high scalability, and are available for the storage and archiving of unstructured data.
The SnapScale X2 ® is a 2U rackmount, which can be configured with up to 12 Nearline SAS hard drives for a minimum capacity of 24TB per node, and can scale out to 512PB with 2-way or 3-way redundancy.
The SnapScale X4 ™ is a high-density 4U rackmount, which can be configured with up to 36 Nearline SAS hard drives for a minimum capacity of 72TB per node, and can scale out to 512PB with 2-way or 3-way redundancy.
SnapServer ® Network Attached Storage Solutions
Our SnapServer ® solutions are an ideal platform for primary or nearline storage, and deliver stability and best-in-class integration with Windows, UNIX/Linux, and Macintosh environments. For virtual servers and database applications, the SnapServer ® family supports iSCSI block-level access with Microsoft VSS and VDS integration to simplify Windows management. For data protection, the SnapServer ® family offers RAID replication, and snapshots for point-in-time data recovery. The SnapServer DX Series ™ products support DynamicRAID ® and traditional RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10.
The SnapServer ® XSR40 is a 1U server that can be configured with up to four SATA II drives, and can scale to 120 terabytes of storage capacity by adding SnapExpansion enclosures.
The SnapServer ® XSR120 is a 2U server that can be configured with up to 12 SATA II drives, and can scale to 288 terabytes of storage capacity by adding up to seven SnapExpansion enclosures.
SnapSAN ® Storage Area Network Solutions
Our SnapSAN ® products provide block-based primary storage for virtual server environments and low latency applications. Systems can be managed through intuitive management interfaces that employ guided wizards to facilitate easy installation and administration. Our SnapSAN ® products also offer a powerful set of features including thin provisioning, mirroring for high availability, replication and snapshots for data protection.
The SnapSAN ® S3000 is a 2U storage array with options for 1Gb or 10Gb iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or SAS host connections, designed for midrange businesses and offers thin provisioning, volume cloning, synchronous and asynchronous remote replication, snapshots and disk spin down for reduced power consumption. The SnapSAN ® S3000 can scale up to 384TB using the SnapSAN ® Expansions.
The SnapSAN ® S5000 is a 2U storage array with options for 1Gb or 10Gb iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or SAS host connections, designed for the enterprise and offers the same features as the SnapSAN ® S3000 as well as SSD integration for caching and policy-based tiering, performance analysis, and tuning and compliance tools. The SnapSAN ® S5000 can scale up to 384TB using the SnapSAN ® Expansions.
Tape Automation Systems
NEO ® Tape-Based Backup and Long-Term Archive Solutions
Our NEO Series ® Tape Libraries and Autoloaders are designed for small and medium businesses looking for simple, cost-effective data protection, as well as for complex enterprise environments with stringent performance and data availability requirements. The Company provides a broad range of high capacity, high performance, flexible tape-based solutions for data backup, recovery and archive. When combined with our enterprise storage solutions such as SnapServer ® systems or SnapScale ® scale-out NAS arrays, our NEO Series ® products create a complete disk-to-disk-to-tape solution with a variety of storage capacity options. NEO Series ® tape solutions are designed to utilize the latest linear tape-open (“LTO”) technologies, and can accommodate up to 24 tape drives and 1,000 cartridges for maximum efficiency and data protection.
NEO ® XL-Series libraries are designed for mid-range and enterprise businesses and provide automated backup that combines flexibility, density, high-performance and affordability to ensure that data is protected faster and more cost effectively. The NEO ® XL-Series starts with 90TB of data storage capacity, and provides the ability to increase that storage capacity up to a total of 3.5PB. NEO ® XL-Series significantly reduces backup windows and improves efficiency with high-performance data transfer rates that range from 504 GB per hour to over 60TB per hour. The NEOxl 60 supports up to 60 cartridges (with capacity ranging from 90TB to 375TB) and three tape drives (for data transfer rates ranging from 504 GB per hour to 4.3TB per hour). The NEOxl 80 supports up to 80 cartridges (with capacity ranging from 120TB to 500TB) and six tape drives (for data transfer rates ranging from 504 GB per hour to 8.6TB per hour). Up to six 80-cartridge/6-drive NEOxl Expansion Modules can be added to provide a total of 560 cartridges (3.5PB) and 42 tape drives (60TB per hour).
NEO ® S-Series libraries provide affordable tape backup for small and medium businesses. NEO ® S-Series libraries are available in compact rack-mount configurations with either SAS or FC connectivity. The NEOs StorageLoader is a 1U, 8-cartridge, single-drive autoloader that provides up to 50TB of storage capacity. The NEOs T24 is a 2U tape library that supports up to 24 cartridge slots and two tape drives, and delivers up to 150TB of storage capacity. The NEOs T48 is a 4U tape library that supports up to 48 cartridge slots and four tape drives, with a maximum storage capacity of 300TB.
NEO ® E-Series provides scalable, high capacity, enterprise-class tape automation that is ideal for large businesses, incorporating the latest LTO technologies, redundant robotics, partitioning capability, mail slot access, and scalability. The NEO ® 8000e is a 43U tape library that supports up to 500 cartridge slots (up to 3PB) and 12 tape drives (up to 17TB per hour) in a single module. For truly enterprise-class storage requirements, the NEO ® 8000e is scalable up to 1,000 cartridge slots (6PB) and 24 tape drives (24 TB per hour).
What an impressive list, that was all added in 2014!! Somebody has been a busy little bee
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