Sphere 3D Plans New Virtual Storage Platform

Sphere 3D Corp. unveiled its plans for a new virtual storage platform during its Q1, 2015 earnings.

Company’s virtual storage platform is built on a proprietary, simple and resilient storage OS, the same platform that is storing and protecting over 350PB of storage onsite at customer deployments worldwide. With versatile performance and capacity options designed to meet the needs of almost any application and workload, users will benefit from fully-featured enterprise NAS functionality in the cloud.

This virtual NAS appliance is easy to provision in the cloud, and delivers the existing features from company’s storage portfolio, including built-in sync and share for data access anywhere, anytime and from any device. This offering brings the simplicity required for customers to deploy enterprise-grade stor, in minutes. The virtual appliances are designed to integrate with Sphere 3D’s existing deployment of hundreds of thousands of physical SnapServer and SnapScale enterprise storage appliances in existing customer environments. Whether customers wish to choose a public, private or hybrid cloud model, the ability to address their needs for data growth, backup or DR has been easier.

Additional details will be made available at the previously announced events entitled Technologies to Power the Next Cloud, where the company will provide th first public demonstrations of the virtual storage platform. These events are being held at Microsoft Technology Centers in Silicon Valley/Mt. View on May 20, followed by New York on May 27, and Toronto on June 17. An additional date for London, England will be announced soon.

Recent Industry reports show enterprise NAS consumption in the cloud as one of the fastest growing categories of public cloud services.