Sphere 3D’s Glassware 2.0 Successfully Migrates Legacy Apps for the Enterprise
December 20 2016 - 9:02AM
Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ:ANY), a containerization,
virtualization, and data management solutions provider, today
announced that it has successfully completed a Proof-of-Concept
(“POC”) utilizing its Glassware 2.0™ application containerization
technology in a highly secure enterprise with mission critical
applications.
A combination of factors come together over time
to create a mountain of technical debt within an organization’s IT
infrastructure, which poses risk to the business that increases
over time. The obsolescence of application technologies is
difficult to anticipate, and even when efforts are made, there are
common failures in the modernization of programs which leave a
company exposed, including:
- Supportability – a failure of an application or one of its
dependencies requires resolution in a timely manner and is often
unavailable;
- Security – an application and its dependencies (e.g. operating
system) are at risk to malware through the lack of security
patching post end of life; and poses a risk to other systems on the
network;
- Reputation – security breaches, and the reporting of such
incidents, can impact the reputation of the affected organization
and negatively impact customer confidence.
Glassware 2.0 was seamlessly deployed in a
highly secure environment to deliver legacy client applications
that connected to an Oracle database backend and had
interdependency from a number of other legacy Microsoft
technologies. During the deployment, Glassware 2.0 provided the
addition of Microsoft Security Essentials through a simple download
from the tools available within the Glassware support site,
demonstrating the ease of incorporating third party software for
additional security – all within a matter of hours.
Glassware 2.0 is able to take complex
multi-dependent legacy applications and move them to modernized
infrastructure. Whether choosing a public, private or hybrid cloud,
organization with dependency on legacy applications potentially
face loss of income and productivity, and for some highly regulated
sectors such as healthcare, government, utilities and financial
services, potential fines from regulators.
Through patented Glassware 2.0 technology,
organizations have the ability to tackle their enterprise
applications that need modernizing; a market that Microsoft
officials have said includes 16 million "classic" Win32, .NET and
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) apps in existence.1
Glassware 2.0 is currently available both as an
appliance as well as through Microsoft Azure. Within Azure,
Glassware is available as an App Containerization Virtual Appliance
that scales to 100s of users per VM and can be deployed through a
consumption model in Microsoft Azure Marketplace; or as a multi VM
infrastructure within Azure, for greater scale and flexibility,
through a Solution Delivery Engagement with Sphere 3D, Microsoft,
or a certified partner. To download an e-guide please go to:
www.microsoftpartnersolutions.com/sphere-3d.
1
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-debuts-centennial-tool-for-moving-legacy-apps-to-the-windows-store/
About Sphere 3DSphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ:ANY)
delivers 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™, NEO®, RDX®, SnapCLOUD™, SnapScale®, SnapServer®, SnapSync™
and V3®. For more information, visit www.sphere3d.com. Follow
us on Twitter @Sphere3D, @overlandstorage, and @tandbergdata.
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