Sphere 3D Corp., a containerization, virtualization and data management
solutions provider and parent company of Overland Storage and Tandberg
Data, today announced the continued successes in customer adoption of
its two Cloud offerings in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace:
G-Series Cloud, powered by
Glassware 2.0 technology - its Cloud-based Windows application containerization solution; and
SnapCLOUD - its Cloud-based data storage product. Sphere
3D has more than doubled the number of provisioned G-Series Cloud and
SnapCLOUD virtual machines (VMs) to over 300, since announcing its joint
marketing program with Microsoft on January 11, 2016.
The joint Sphere 3D / Azure campaign is being targeted to a subset of Sphere 3D's dedicated customers that use its brand-leading, on-premise SnapServer
storage solutions in North America. Recipients of the campaign have
shared that they appreciate the comprehensiveness of both the Sphere 3D
and Microsoft Azure services and how they seamlessly work together. The
campaign's survey results, taken after each deployment, also show high
marks of customer satisfaction for the products' hybrid-cloud as well as
service and support capabilities.
"Our corporate strategy of vertical
integration and market-driven service offerings continue to crystallize
the positive results we see from our customers within our product
portfolios. Glassware 2.0 and SnapCLOUD, coupled with the security and
dependability of Microsoft Azure, have given our customers tremendous
agility within their workflows. These early stage campaign outcomes
reinforce our value proposition, which enable us to deliver
comprehensive hybrid-cloud solutions to our customers," said Eric Kelly,
CEO of Sphere 3D. He continued by stating, "This positive customer
momentum will help accelerate our plan to expand these cross-promotional
tactics and methodologies to the sizable installed bases for our RDX purpose-built, back-up appliance and NEO tape library customers, which amount to hundreds of thousands of deployments worldwide."
Wesley Tate, IT Director for an
international import-export company, stated, "Prior to learning about
SnapCLOUD, I had been hesitant to adopt Cloud storage for our day-to-day
business environment due to our concerns of a security breach and
potential loss of control of the data. However, once we became familiar
with Microsoft Azure's stringent security levels, our team could feel
comfortable controlling what data goes into the Cloud, how long it stays
there and who gets access privileges. When our employees travel
abroad, this makes life easy because they can use their Chromebooks to
access the Cloud, and my IT team knows the data they access is secure in
SnapCLOUD. Augmenting our existing on-premise SnapServers with
SnapCLOUD is already proving to be an excellent decision for our
business."
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