Sphere 3D Corp (ANY)

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When talking about Microsoft, let's also not forget this tiny little recent industry dynamic, some might have forgotten already:

Sphere 3D notes a recent Rightscale study, which shows that fewer than 20 percent of enterprise applications operate from within the cloud. In part, the difficulty of migrating applications and providing stable access to end users may be holding back growth of that number. The Glassware 2.0 application tries to make it much easier to move applications into the cloud and therefore can help reduce the cost and complexity of running and maintaining those applications.

TMC reported in late February that Azure is capturing some of the cloud computing market from competitors Google, Rackspace, and VMWare. Although Amazon Web Services continues to dominate the market, Azure has shown gains while there have been drops in the past year from Rackspace and VMWare alongside reportedly steady market share for Google. Projects such as Sphere 3D could help boost Microsoft's numbers in this arena by making it easier for prospective customers to move their own products into the cloud and away from in-house servers.

http://www.transformingnetworkinfrastructure.com/topics/virtualization/articles/399428-sphere-3d-microsoft-bring-glassware-20-azure-cloud.htm