Replies to post #6309 on Sphere 3D Corp (ANY)

[farrell90]

Thanks for posting. Awesome DD shows Spihffy's potential in a tech business that appears to be growing exponentially;hopefully our share price will soon match the same trajectory. Very exciting. I am pleased to be an investor at this early stage of development.

Good luck,Farrell

[ral4]

Thats a lot of work you have put in!! Really appreciate that you are sharing it. It really has focused my attention on the commercial potential here, and why Sphere is nicely placed to help expand MSP services, which as your DD points out, is a huge market and ultra-competitive and hence all players are looking for ways to expand on existing customer bases. Best of all is that we are working with the elephant in the room, Ericsson, that currently commands about 11 billion of this 25 billion market.

Sphere will allow MSP's to offer VDI desktops to customers as well as applications delivered by Glassware. In addition to offering these services through the public cloud, MSP will also be able to sell full private cloud hardware/software solutions (V3/Glassware/Storage) to customers, as well as combining the two as a hybrid cloud solution... all managed by V3's desktop orchestrator.

one of the things that really struck me here is that the services will be provided over 4G (LTE) network. This is from Ericsson's faq, which indicates the capability of the network.

How fast is LTE?
Today’s LTE networks are able to provide speeds up to 100Mbps. However user experience may vary depending on location and present network load. The technology allows for speeds more than 300Mbps and Ericsson has already demonstrated the next step of LTE at the MWC 2010 with speeds up to 1.2Gbps. Live measurements in north of Stockholm in June 2011 gave speeds above 1Gbps.

and from your post

To meet the higher pressure on telecom networks as data traffic surges, operators will expand high-capacity 4G, or LTE, to cover more than 65 percent of the world's population by 2019, up from around 10 percent in 2012, Ericsson said.

Telstra claims world first with 450Mbps LTE in cooperation with Ericsson

the issue with cloud based virtualization solutions is always the network, both the speed and access to it. To me this seems like a big deal in solving that issue... would be great to get your & other members further thoughts on this??