"MSFT was at the forefront of containerization dvlpt and had a R&D brain trust working on it 7-10 yrs ago but they were ahead of their time and black-boxed it as it took resources away from something else they were launching. I'll ask my friends if I see them over Xmas to expand on whatever I wrote on the topic with pete."
Very interesting. I would be glad to hear whatever you find out. It does suggest that in some ways the ground was already prepared at Microsoft for what they saw when they vetted glassware...
"What are the chances old group having accomplished whatever they did at MSFT were the ones called upon to review Glassware etc. for Azure? Pretty good my friends think."
This is intriguing... I don't know the answer to your question... what I will say with total confidence is that Microsoft engineers were beyond impressed with glassware when they vetted it... I understand that some posters are working from the premise that glassware is just one more of thousands and thousands of offerings on Azure... and that it is relatively easy to get an offering on Azure... to each their own I say, but imo this shows a significant lack of understanding or knowledge regarding what happened in 2015 and what it took to get glassware on Azure and what glassware means to Microsoft... Microsoft having worked on this very task for 7-10 years as you suggest was initially perplexed that S3D had come up with such an efficient solution to a seemingly intractable problem...
"It's all about Azure and MSFT will do whatever it takes to build market share asap."
Spot on...
"On another note, can't help but wonder though what happened to all the wonderful things Overland Merger was supposed to bring to the table. EK and his 16,000 whatever they were supposed to be."
The Overland merger will also begin to payoff in 2016 as storage solutions are monetized utilizing glassware (think Nutanix). The merger of 4 into 1 cost the company 2014. Putting snap and glassware on Azure cost the company 2015. It is for these reasons that we are basically 2 years behind regarding the monetization process. A very big bet was placed on these two elements moving forward. 2016 is when we find out whether or not these were good bets... imo...
Regarding EK... he made two huge mistakes in 2015... he provided guidance that he could not back up and he did so against his own legal counsel... and he bungled the recent financing very, very badly... his mistakes have not gone unnoticed... I would not assume a dearth of corrective action regarding the CEO...
Regarding the Overland resellers/channels of 16,000+... let's keep it real.... while Overland was in decline for years these channels were neglected... they will need to be rebuilt... I think it is safe to say some will never be rebuilt... while others will be revived as new product comes along to solve customer problems... Stony Hall is rebuilding the channels starting with North America... it will build from there... how many of them can be reclaimed... I have no idea... but until now they really haven't had much of anything exciting to sell anyway... now that the glassware platform has been built and is available in hybrid form it is a new day for some of these resellers... but it will most certainly take awhile... jmo... glta...
