Digital marketing and tele-sales campaign launched to increase awareness of the company’s revolutionary
containerization technology
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 26, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ:ANY), a containerization, virtualization, and data management
solutions provider, today announced that it has launched its second advertising and lead generation campaign that showcases its
containerization application technology, Glassware 2.0™, currently deployed on Microsoft Azure. The campaign highlights how the
company’s Glassware 2.0 on Azure offerings address a key issue with the migration and support of legacy Microsoft Windows based
business applications faced by many CTOs and IT managers today.
The go-to-market campaign, which launched on December 14, 2016, in the United States, introduces Sphere 3D’s
Glassware 2.0 on Azure solutions to a broad set of enterprises. The campaign highlights the distinctive value proposition of
Glassware 2.0; simple migration and deployment of legacy Windows business applications that extends the investment and overall
lifespan of such apps. Typical “rip and replace” exercises for migrating legacy applications are costly and extremely disruptive to
current workflows. This campaign highlights Sphere 3D’s technology to the broader market as an innovative solution to this
issue. The campaign strategy has two phases:
- Phase 1: content syndication and digital ads running with premium publishers that target an audience of 1 million IT
administrators and systems integrators.
- Phase 2: the prospects generated from the awareness campaign will go to a tele-sales team to identify and qualify sales
prospects and leads.
“We are very pleased and extremely excited to launch this go-to-market campaign,” said Peter Tassiopoulos,
president of Sphere 3D. “This opportunity to promote our Glassware 2.0 solutions currently available on Microsoft Azure gives us
the exposure and catalyst to allow us to deliver to the enterprise at scale.” He continued by saying, “We’ve worked extensively
within the Microsoft ISV partner program over the past two years to develop our technology solutions on Azure. This campaign is a
strong validation of our product readiness.”
“Sphere 3D’s Glassware 2.0 containerization and virtualization technology on Microsoft Azure offers a flexible,
scalable migration tool for enterprise customers using Windows-based business applications,” said Nicole Herskowitz, Microsoft
senior director of product marketing for Cloud platform at Microsoft Corp. “Glassware 2.0 helps customers who want to move to
the Cloud, but also want to get the most out of their investments in existing business applications.”
Glassware 2.0 powered solutions on Azure are available for purchase today in the Azure Marketplace as G-Series
Cloud and also through Sphere 3D’s professional services as the Exosphere powered by Glassware 2.0 solution. To learn more about
the Glassware 2.0 on Azure offerings:
About Sphere 3D
Sphere 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™, SnapServer®, SnapSync™ and V3®. For more information, visit www.sphere3d.com. Follow us on Twitter @Sphere3D, @overlandstorage, and @tandbergdata
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