Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ:ANY), a containerization, virtualization
and data management solutions provider and parent company of
Overland Storage and Tandberg Data, today announces the general
availability of its V3 distributed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(VDI) appliance family. With this, the company is also
introducing a new approach to architecting the fundamentals of VDI
to outperform desktop centric appliances as well deliver
proprietary failover capabilities. Sphere 3D calls this new
approach a Distributed Desktop Hyperconvergence (DDH) architecture,
and it enables simplified virtual desktop deployment and management
while optimized for distributed environments.
Story Highlights
- Provides one of the industry's most comprehensive and complete
solution portfolios that takes aim at making VDI accessible and
appropriate for any customer, any workload with the ability to
scale in any increment, whether it be 10 users or thousands.
- Purpose built for VDI, V3 delivers a simple turnkey appliance
family for use cases including Remote Office / Branch Office
(ROBO), Small/Midsize Businesses (SMB) and distributed enterprise
environments.
- Seamlessly integrates with existing VMware solutions and
existing VDI investments for streamlined deployment and enhanced
VDI capabilities.
- Starts small with a list price of $15,000 and scales through
workload optimized appliances that address a variety of workloads,
including everything from simple task workers to professional
graphics users.
- Integrates Sphere 3D’s Desktop Cloud Orchestrator™ (DCO)
software with VMware and NVIDIA technologies, providing desktop
orchestration and automation from a centralized management
platform.
- Built for desktop administrators to decentralize virtual
desktops and provide an enhanced user experience.
- Introduces a Distributed Desktop Hyperconvergence (DDH)
architecture to better align VDI with real world use cases.
- Slated to be able to leverage the VMware Horizon® Air™
Hybrid-Mode capabilities for increased flexibility and expanded
cloud capacity as part of VMware’s hyper-converged appliance
partnership. (See joint company video ow.ly/Y8inY.)
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“The $2 billion hyper-convergence market defined in 2014 is
estimated to grow tenfold to $20 billion by 2020,” said David
Floyer, chief technology officer and co-founder, Wikibon. Mr.
Floyer went on to add: “Sphere 3D’s approach to Distributed Desktop
Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) is a unique contribution to
the HCI ecosystem, with VDI being a leading-edge workload.”
"With this launch of their V3 distributed hyperconverged
appliance solutions, Sphere 3D has distinguished itself as a
pioneer in delivering high performance desktops for the distributed
enterprise and the SMB," said John Fanelli, vice president, NVIDIA
GRID. "Sphere 3D's workload optimized business graphics and
professional graphics offerings, powered by our NVIDIA GRID
technology, are changing the business case of deployment and
management of virtual workspaces by making high-performance
virtualization available to a broader set of customer
profiles."
“With our V3 product family, organizations can look to a
purpose-built family of appliances that are pre-tuned for optimal
VDI performance and leverage existing best-of-breed
technologies. Demands on IT departments for End User
Computing (EUC) solutions have traditionally put a strain on
budgets and IT resources and have prevented organizations from
being able to match real world use cases of physical desktops with
a Cloud computing solution,” said Peter Bookman, Global Strategist
of Sphere 3D. “Our new V3 solutions have been specifically
engineered to match these use cases and provide the flexibility to
de-risk VDI deployments through a simple building block approach
that no longer requires a ‘one size fits all’ approach.”
The V3 appliance family comes pre-provisioned with Sphere 3D’s
Desktop Cloud Orchestrator™ (DCO) software and also leverages
VMware's VMware vSphere® virtualization and server management
software, and VMware Virtual SAN™ enterprise-class shared storage
solutions, along with GPU technology from NVIDIA, to take aim at
making Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) accessible and
applicable to business and branch offices of any size. The V3
all-flash appliances can start with a single appliance for VDI use
or a 3-node configuration for a Virtual SAN cluster. Designed to
stand alone or extend and simplify existing VMware customer
environments, the V3 appliances can deliver key performance and
capacity advantages from a single product family with one point of
support.
Sphere 3D’s DDH architecture is designed to simplify virtual
desktop deployment and management for ROBO installations, and also
reduces the cost and necessary infrastructure to support VDI.
DDH reduces VDI management overhead and complexity
while creating desktop resilience and decreasing branch office
infrastructure. DDH is also road-mapped to use application
containerization to shift the focus from storage onto end user
computing, resulting in an improved user experience.
V3 appliances with DCO provide hardware awareness with real time
alerts of the state of the hardware and the ability to migrate end
users, on a case by case basis, from appliance to appliance for
optimal performance and availability. In addition, the new V3
family is slated to be able to leverage the VMware Horizon® Air™
Hybrid-Mode capabilities for increased flexibility and expanded
Cloud capacity in the coming months.
Pricing and Availability
Entry systems for small and medium businesses and remote offices
start at a U.S.-list price of $15,000. Options for
performance-intensive or graphic-based workloads that can support
more than 100 professional graphic users from a single appliance
are also available. The product is available for purchase through
Sphere 3D’s Elite and Elite Pro FastTrack channel partners.
About Sphere 3D’s V3 Virtual Desktop and Mobility
Solutions
The newest V3 product families combine storage, server and
virtualization services to create unprecedented scale-out and
scale-up appliances for VDI use in: private, public and hybrid
Clouds. 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
- V3 Flex Nodes for smaller businesses and branch locations
Organizations can start small, with as few as 10 virtual
desktops, and easily and non-disruptively scale to thousands of
users with a predictable, ‘pay-as-you-grow’ approach. The V3
appliances, available in a broad set of configurations, are
workload optimized to ensure that typical over provisioning in VDI
can be eliminated, while also providing multiple scale points. With
the preinstalled DCO software on each appliance, organizations can
also overcome the performance degradation of VDI in widely
distributed deployments and eliminate distance limitations of
traditional VDI architectures. For additional resources, see the V3
Products Web page at
http://sphere3d.com/v3-hyperconverged-solutions/.
About Sphere 3D
Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ:ANY) delivers industry renowned data
management, and desktop and application virtualization solutions
via hybrid Cloud, Cloud and on-premise implementations through its
global reseller network. 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®, SnapSync™, V3®, RDX®, and NEO®. For
more information, visit www.sphere3d.com. Follow us on Twitter
@Sphere3D, @overlandstorage, and @tandbergdata.
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including, without limitation, Overland Storage and Tandberg Data;
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