Sphere 3D Introduces Next Generation of Virtual Desktop and Mobility Solutions
February 22 2016 - 8:32AM
Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ:ANY), a containerization, virtualization
and data management solutions provider, today announced its next
generation of V3 virtual application and desktop solutions.
Three new appliance families that come pre-provisioned with Sphere
3D’s Desktop Cloud Orchestrator™ (“DCO”) software take aim at
making VDI accessible to business and branch offices of any size.
The new families converge storage, server and virtualization
services to create unprecedented scale-out and up appliances for
VDI use in all three cloud models: Private, Public and Hybrid. The
new families are in three categories: V3 Smart Nodes for
large centralized enterprises; V3 End User Computing (EUC) Nodes
for decentralized and Remote Office, Branch Office (ROBO)
locations; and V3 Flex Nodes for smaller businesses and branch
locations, even locations with as few as ten users.
“Our new family of appliances expands our V3
platform to address the requirements of businesses today and the
many ways that their employees use technology,” said Peter Bookman,
Global Strategist at Sphere 3D. “In the real world we see
businesses that are distributed into many locations of differing
sizes and with workers who have vastly different technology needs.
The work we have done to enhance our DCO software has enabled us to
create new architectures for VDI. With complementary purpose built
and workload optimized appliances, businesses can select the most
appropriate V3 appliance, or group of appliances, for each location
to support the appropriate number and type of workers. This new
approach to VDI is the physical expression of our vision for a
complete cloud architecture, which includes the distributed hybrid
cloud for virtual desktops, virtual applications and data
storage.”
New capabilities in the V3 product families
include:
- Multi-Site Architecture. V3 Appliances
are designed for use at multi-site businesses, and are cost
effective and simple enough to deploy to almost all business
locations. The ability to fail over from site to site means
that the V3 distributed hybrid cloud architecture becomes more
reliable as the number of locations increase.
- Right-sized and workload optimized. V3
Appliances offer unmatched options to meet the simplest task-based
workloads (i.e., the simplest applications), all the way to some of
the highest-end application and desktop workloads (i.e., the most
complex applications). However, V3’s architecture is flexible
to the point that a business owner can easily change and grow their
VDI footprint as their business needs change without any
requirement to replace their current investments in existing
infrastructure.
- Simple to Deploy and Simple to Manage:
Sphere 3D utilizes DCO software to create drop in appliances which
are simple to install and manage. After the initial deployment,
customers can use existing desktop administrators to maintain their
virtual desktops and applications. In addition, by enabling
specific local storage capabilities V3 appliances deliver a faster
and more efficient user experience than physical or other virtual
desktops. DCO is complementary to a customer’s existing
virtualization management and as such is amongst the first to
integrate and take advantage of VMware’s new features in
Horizon.
- Glassware 2.0 and SNAP compatible. The V3
family of appliances are integrated with the G-Series family of
products, which utilize Glassware 2.0™ technology. Glassware 2.0
can significantly reduce the size and cost of appliances by
delivering the most commonly used Windows desktop applications in a
more resource efficient manner and increase the application
ecosystem available to be virtualized. By adding the SNAP
storage family of offerings, users can take advantage of hybrid and
distributed storage. These combined technologies enable delivery of
desktops and applications with greater flexibility than ever
before.
Introducing the next-generation V3 Product
Families for the Complete Cloud:
- V3 Smart Nodes – designed for scale up
efficiencies that fall squarely into the hyperconverged model
utilizing VMWare’s VSAN technology for clustered storage. The
ability to have a shared file system between the V3 Smart Node
appliances allows for the most efficient scale up model for
converged systems. It is targeted for large central locations
such as data centers and corporate headquarters. Leveraging
new functionality within VSAN, such as stretch clusters, Smart
Nodes offers a platform for distributed hybrid architectures that
is far simpler and more complete than previously available
offerings.
- V3 End User Computing (EUC) Nodes – designed
for use in both single and multiple location deployments, including
ROBO (Remote Office, Branch Office) locations. EUC Nodes only
require a single node to start. This category is the
workhorse of the V3 work-load optimized architecture. V3 EUC
Nodes, due to their unique ability to failover site to site, create
a network of distributed sites that become more reliable as the
number of deployments at multiple sites increase. This new
flexibility means a business owner does not need to tear down their
IT architecture should requirements change; which in most
businesses they inevitably do. The V3 EUC Nodes allow
business owners to grow their desktop, application and storage
infrastructure as needs dictate.
- V3 Flex Nodes - designed for smaller branch
locations, as small as ten users per site. In addition to
scaling down the cost of the customer’s technology infrastructure
to meet the needs of the location, V3 Flex Nodes specialize in
business mobility. V3 Flex Nodes use VMWare’s policy
management layer to give the user the best fit of several different
experiences. The V3 Flex Nodes provide local access to
workspaces without internet access and can utilize VMware
technology to provide virtual desktops offline so a user could work
regardless of network availability. V3 Flex Nodes can be
distributed throughout multiple sites using our V3 DCO management
software.
All three of these new product families leverage
Sphere 3D’s DCO software along with flexible appliance
configurations to enable single node appliance installations that
can address any size or type of workload, regardless of
location. This new drop in appliance approach is simple to
install and manage yet can scale from tens to 10,000s of users. For
more information on the V3 workload optimized architecture and
family of products please visit: the V3 Workload Optimized
Web Page and the V3 Appliance Features Web Page
About Sphere 3DSphere 3D Corp.
(NASDAQ:ANY) delivers containerization and virtualization
technologies along with data management products that enable
workload-optimized solutions. We achieve this through a combination
of containerized applications, virtual desktops, virtual storage
and physical hyper-converged platforms. Sphere 3D’s value
proposition is simple and direct—we allow organizations to deploy a
combination of public, private or hybrid cloud strategies while
backing them up with state of the art storage solutions.
Sphere 3D, along with its wholly-owned subsidiaries Overland
Storage and Tandberg Data, has a strong portfolio of brands
including Glassware 2.0™, SnapCLOUD™, SnapScale®, SnapServer®, V3,
RDX®, and NEO®. For more information, visit
www.sphere3d.com.
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