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1 The IT Infrastructure Company of the Next Decade 1

2 Agenda Corporate Overview Our vision Key drivers Three Pillars of Innovation Summary 2

3 Safe Harbor Statement Except for the factual statements made herein, the information contained in this presentation consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Words and expressions reflecting optimism, satisfaction or disappointment with current prospects, as well as words such as believes, hopes, intends, estimates, expects, projects, plans, anticipates and variations thereof, or the use of future tense, identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance and our actual results could differ materially from those contained in such statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: the company s ability to maintain and increase sales volumes of its products; the ability to continue to aggressively control costs and operating expenses; the ability to achieve the intended cost savings and maintain quality with its manufacturing partners; its ability to generate cash from operations; the ability of our suppliers to provide an adequate supply of components for the company s products at prices consistent with historical prices; the ability to raise outside capital and to repay the company s debt as it comes due; the ability to introduce new competitive products and the degree of market acceptance of such new products; the timing and market acceptance of new products introduced by Sphere 3D s competitors; the company s ability to maintain strong relationships with branded channel partners; the ability to maintain the listing of Sphere 3D s common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market; customers, suppliers and creditors perceptions of Sphere 3D s continued viability; rescheduling or cancellation of customer orders; loss of a major customer; the Company s ability to enforce its intellectual property rights and protect its intellectual property (including the outcome of its ongoing patent litigation); general competition and price measures in the market place; unexpected shortages of critical components; worldwide information technology spending levels; and general economic conditions. Reference is also made to other factors detailed from time to time in Sphere 3D s periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this presentation and Sphere 3D undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this presentation. 3

4 The IT Infrastructure Company of the Next Decade A Global Provider of Virtualization Infrastructure and Data Management Solutions Canada HQ U.S.: Exec HQ, Operations, R&D Norway: R&D Center Germany: Operational HQ Japan: Sales Office Singapore: APAC HQ China: Manufacturing facility FOUNDED ANY 400+ NASDAQ Global Markets EMPLOYEES $100m+ REVENUE Pro-forma on combined basis with Overland

5 5 A Broad Global Customer Base in 70 + Countries

6 Leadership Team Experienced management / with deep sector knowledge CEO President Finance Marketing Operations R & D Sales Eric Kelly 30+ years of executive and senior leadership Peter Tassiopoulos 20+ years as founder, director, senior. executive Kurt Kalbfleisch, CFO 20+ years accounting and finance leadership Nilesh Patel, VP Prod Mgt/Marketing 20+ years marketing and strategy leadership Randy Gast, SVP and COO 20+ years ops, SCM, global support leadership Trevor Heathorn, VP Of Eng (15+ years) John Morelli, Founder/VP of tech (15+ years) Scott Petersen, VP Channel/OEM, NA/APAC Graham Paterson, VP EMEA Stoney Hall, VP Global Solutions 6

7 7 Vision: Any App, Any Device, Anytime

8 Software Defined IT Key Drivers Today s businesses demand Cloud-ready IT for service efficiency and acceleration Distributed IT for a strategic competitive advantage Mobile-ready IT for end-user flexibility and productivity Scalable IT for cost efficiency and business agility 8

9 Challenges and Solutions for the Next Era of IT Challenges Solution Cloud-ready IT SW & VM Sprawl Integration issues Lack of cross-platform mobility Cloud-native, integrated solutions Platform agnostic stack Mobile-ready IT Secured app and data delivery App compatibility across platforms Inherently secured app & data delivery Platform agnostic, native app experience 9

10 Challenges and Solutions for the Next Era of IT Challenges Solution Distributed IT Traditional convergence = centralization Data mobility and availability issues Geographically distributed scale-out Centrally managed IT infrastructure Scalable IT Unpredictable, relentless data growth Varying needs, one-size doesn t fit all Purpose built scalable building blocks Seamless end-to-end infra management 10

11 11 Three Pillars of Innovation

12 V3 Globalscale VDI Appliances V3 Globalscale VDI solutions scale both up and out and deliver performance in extreme high density and, can be delivered closest to the users for optimum user experience. Deployment ease Flexibility Scalability Consolidation Improved Performance 12

13 Single Pane of Glass DCO For Desktop Administrators DCO is a web based application View pool resources over multiple appliances Manage disaster recovery policies Check health status Create & manage pools V3 Desktop Cloud Orchestrator VMwa re ESX Create & deploy new desktops Manage & update pools Administrative tools for the desktop manager Kernel modifications with other consoles not required 13

14 Glassware 2.0 Container Scale Microvisor Dynamic Bare Metal 14

15 Glassware Container for Windows Applications A Breakthrough SW Stack for Platform-agnostic App Virtualization 15 Devices and Carriers Applications OS Hardware Platform built from ground up Light weight MicroVisor approach; Bypass layers of the OS stack; Containerizes app, data, resources; Breakthrough differentiation Significantly more efficient; Virtualizes apps considered not feasible for virtualization; Dynamic resource provisioning reduces infrastructure costs; App sessions are inherently secure, protected from malware.

16 A Complete IT Infrastructure Solutions Portfolio A Full Range of Cloud, Virtualization and Data Life Cycle Management Solutions Cloud Solutions Cloud Orchestrator Unified Storage Turn-key VDI and Virtualized app delivery Appliances Up to 8x faster than alternatives High-performance block-level and file-level storage File sharing & Virtual server integration with Clustered and traditional NAS Removable disk Protects single and/or multiple workstations and servers De-duplication for efficient use of capacity Traditional backup and restore Tape drives, media and automation Ideal for disaster recovery and long-term archiving Backup Appliance Data Archival 16

17 Industry Analysts Say Adoption Market Size Solution 82% stating they were "somewhat or very likely" to adopt a hyper-converged infrastructure Research CI has been steadily gaining acceptance as an enterprise infrastructure foundation Forrester The global Converged Infrastructure Market to grow from $11.53 billion in 2014 to $33.89 billion by 2019, at a CAGR 24.1%. Research and Markets Overland, (a subsidiary of Sphere 3D) is focused on the right pain points for end users considering VDI. Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. 17

18 Total Available Markets Cloud Virtualization Solutions Unified Storage Backup Appliance Long Term Archival $33B 1 By 2019 $9B 2 By 2017 <$100k $3B 3 By 2018 $1.0B 4 18 Sources: 1. "Converged Infrastructure Market by Components, Services, Architecture Type, and End Users - Worldwide Forecasts & Analysis ( )" 2. Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems Forecast , IDC, November IDC Worldwide Purpose Built Backup Appliance Market, September Enterprise Tape Automation Forecast, IDC, 2013

19 Product and Solutions to Address the Markets Cloud Virtualization Solutions Unified Storage Backup Appliance Long Term Archival Create Manage and Protect Retain End-to-End solutions for the SW Defined IT Era 19

20 Positioned for Success Innovation and strong patent portfolio with 45 issued patents, 36 pending; Worldwide reseller channel with over 20,000 channel partners focused on the small & medium enterprise markets; OEM Relationships; Proven technologies over 1 million installations worldwide; Sales and service support in more than 70 countries; Experienced core management team from: Phobos 20

21 Closing Thoughts Containerized stack, cloud-native architecture and hyper-converged infrastructures are the disruptive forces challenging the status-quo; Redefines cloud-scale and introduces Global scale infrastructure; Delivers breakthrough efficiency in IT productivity and utilization; Sphere3D s pillars of innovation are already delivering sustainable competitive advantages; Trends, Technology and the Team at Sphere3D are well positioned to build the IT infrastructure company of the NEXT decade. 21

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