Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

[desarcmo]

It doesnt sound like standard partner fare. Per PT: (My highlights)

"Now a bit about Glassware and Microsoft, our most recent progress with Microsoft includes an elevated status to now be part of what they call Managed ISV Program, where we are one of a small handful of select accounts in the U.S., I believe less than 10 actually. As such, we now have a dedicated Microsoft account management team that is charged to help us grow our business in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

With this expansion of our relationship, Microsoft is funding marketing and lead-generation campaigns that start later this month that will target outreach to millions of IT partners and end-users to promote our Glassware containerization solutions deployed in the Microsoft Azure cloud, as well as provide access to Microsoft sales team, sales engineers and solution architects to help us close the business."

I'm not here to dupe anybody or to be duped. Just trying to figure out what is going on. The ISV program does sound like an elevated basis. Other people who have been Microsoft partners for years finally get ISV status and seem to think it is a big deal. Here is just one reference for it;

http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/feature/Microsoft-managed-partner-designation-What-it-takes-what-its-worth