Encouraging Initial Results From Microsoft Azure Joint Marketing Campaign With Sphere 3D

Sphere 3D Corp. announced encouraging initial results from its Microsoft Azure joint marketing campaign.

In-market tactics launched in late November 2015 were directed to a control portion, subset of its dedicated customers that use its SnapServer and SnapScale on-premise storage solutions. The campaign entices them to augment their existing solutions with SnapCLOUD – a cloud-based storage product which is available from the Azure Marketplace. The campaign has already resulted in over 100 SnapCLOUD customer deployments, meeting 40% of the target goal fo the original 90-day period.

“This effort is designed to galvanize the inter-relationships of the various brands within the Sphere3D portfolio. We believe we will continue to gain traction through vertical integration of our distinctive capabilities that are designed to catalyze adoption of our products,” said Eric Kelly, CEO, Sphere 3D. “Many of these same loyal SnapServer and SnapScale customers have also begun looking at our G-Series Cloud, application containerization solution, powered by Glassware 2.0, which is also available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.”

“My organization has been very pleased with the SnapServer product line and I view it as a trusted brand for reliability, data protection, and enterprise-grade performance,” said Macon Barham, owner, national insurance agency, Peachtree City, GA. “When we learned about the SnapCLOUD solution last month, with its ability to provision our unstructured data in minutes within the Microsoft Azure cloud Marketplace, it was an easy decision to help round out our storage infrastructure.” He continued by stating, “I really like how the cloud approach allows me to control expenses by paying only for what we use; and if we need more we can quickly increase our capacity without taking on the IT expense or burden of build out and technical support.“

The company has a large customer base of SnapServer users, consisting of both SMBs, as well as large enterprises, that are seeking to augment their on-premise storage solutions with a hybrid cloud infrastructure. The SnapCLOUD offering in the Azure Marketplace allows customers to deploy a cloud-based solution while recognizing the benefits of flexibility, load balancing and security offered by Azure.

SnapCLOUD is a virtual storage platform based on firm’s SnapServer on-premise storage OS, which has been installed by 300,000 plus customers worldwide. It brings the simplicity of deploying enterprise-grade storage in minutes to meet unplanned business growth needs. The storage offering is able to unify data manageability, access control and replication between the physical data center and the public cloud, because it is a hybrid cloud architecture.

SnapCLOUD delivers following benefits:

• Users can create a high performance and resilient virtual environment in minutes, using servers, storage and networking from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Customers only pay for what they use.

• Users get secure data access anywhere and on any device. Built-in sync and share functionality enables users and devices to share data directly from SnapCLOUD in conformance with business policies.

• Users can centrally manage and monitor their on-premise physical data center and their data in the cloud, allowing data management across the organization to be the same everywhere.

Trial of SnapCLOUD from Azure