Virsto No Dupe (third in a series)
Posted Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
Let's wrap up this series by comparing deduplication (dedupe) with Virsto no dupe.
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Check. Check. Check. Priceless!
Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in News 0 comments
Rock star. Check.
Product star. Check.
Storage Superstar. Check.
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Virsto at House of Blues NOLA
Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2010 in News 0 comments
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Virsto's Steve Gearing brings down the house at Microsoft's Tech•Ed virtualization party at the House of Blues in New Orleans…
Virsto and Cloning (second in a series)
Posted Thursday, June 03, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
What is a clone, anyway?
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Best of Tech•Ed finalist
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2010 in News 0 comments
Virsto is proud to have been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Best of Tech•Ed competition…
Morgan Stanley’s 10th CTO Summit
Posted Sunday, May 23, 2010 in News 0 comments
Morgan Stanley’s Technology Department, bellwether of tech startup success, has invited Virsto to participate in their 10th Annual CTO Summit June 16-17 in Palo Alto California…
Virsto and Deduplication (first in a series)
Posted Thursday, May 20, 2010 in Technology 4 comments
Since our Virsto One announcement we have received a stream of questions regarding our data deduplication solution. This is understandable given the dedupe hype that media teams are pushing…
And the winner of the Virsto Xbox is…
Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2010 in News 0 comments
Drum roll please....
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Virsto Xbox… Janssen Jones, Associate Director of Auxiliary Information Technology at Indiana University.
When we called Janssen to tell him he won the Xbox, we asked if he would be willing to share some of his experience with Hyper-V. Here is what he said…
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New release of Virsto One!
Posted Monday, May 10, 2010 in News 0 comments
Six weeks after our initial release of Virsto One we welcome version 1.1. We would not call it 1.1 unless we responded to customer feedback that introduced new features, along with some bug fixes…
Virsto One vVHD vs standard VHD
Posted Sunday, April 25, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
There is nothing like real customer exposure for understanding truth.
Since our Virsto One release we have been getting great positive feedback. Including some valuable questions on various aspects of the product. The one area that seems to bring the most questions is the architecture of our filter driver and our VHD model…
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The Debut of Virsto One
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 in News, Software Business 4 comments
Two and a half years ago, we started digging feverishly into the storage issues that are unique to virtual datacenters. A lot of sweat and blood has been expended by a dedicated Virsto team since then. I'm happy to say that today, our first product was announced to the world.
Virsto One is the first and only hypervisor based storage virtualization solution built from the ground up for the unique needs of virtual servers.
Pre-launch coverage
Posted Monday, February 15, 2010 in News 0 comments
A few industry publications – DCIG, Virtualization Review, and Datamation – mentioned us recently. You might want to take a look.
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IT professionals talk about Hyper-V
Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
As part of Virsto's beta test program, we've had the pleasure of working with Windows IT professionals who know a lot about virtualization and Microsoft Windows Hyper-V. A couple of these customers have recommended blogs.
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New Approaches to Storage Sprawl in IT Business Edge
Posted Thursday, December 31, 2009 in News 0 comments
Arthur Cole at IT Business Edge posted an article about the problems of storage sprawl in a VM environment. Thanks Arthur for mentioning Virsto.
Getting ready to launch
Posted Tuesday, December 15, 2009 in News 0 comments
Virsto is transitioning from a development-mode company to a going-to-market company. Early in 2010, we'll launch our first product and take our first customers from beta testing to production deployment.
Virtual Strategy Magazine: Storage at the front of the 2010 Virtualization Agenda
Posted Wednesday, December 09, 2009 in News 0 comments
If one "forecast for 2010" article is good, surely two are better.
VMblog: 2010 Shines a Light on Mistaken Storage Assumptions
Posted Tuesday, December 08, 2009 in News 0 comments
It's that time of the year again. As we work ourselves silly trying to finish up year end tasks and prepare for holidays, it is also time for the ritual of predictions for the coming year.
You get less of what you tax
Posted Thursday, December 03, 2009 in Software Business 0 comments
Jerome Wendt makes a good point about storage software pricing on his blog.
He argues that storage software vendors that charge by capacity are shooting themselves in the foot, for three subtly different reasons.
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Evolution of a startup website
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 in News 2 comments
If you’re among the 43.6 million people who've hit www.virsto.com since about 5:29am US pacific time on Monday, you’ll note a couple things…
Thoughts on the Dumb Disk Fallacy
Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 in News 0 comments
Stephen Foskett's highly recommended blog has begun a series on Storage Truths, in which he talks about sacred cows and urban myths of the data storage industry. I've read his thoughtful comments on this industry for a long time, so am looking forward to the series.
His first post on the Dumb Disk Fallacy is on point…
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Who wants to set the world on fire?
Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 in News 0 comments
Virsto is in need of stellar product management talent…
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Will storage go the way of the server?
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 in News 0 comments
If you're in the virtualization business, or you are considering how virtualization will impact your future, you need to study “The Future of Storage…
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Movin’ on up, to the east side
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 in News 5 comments
…of highway 101…
Yesterday’s most surprising news story out of VMworld
Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 in News 0 comments
Here's the lede from a Computerworld story:
EMC will resell virtualization management software from VMware alongside its own Ionix management platform in an expanded partnership aimed at helping enterprises build private clouds…CONTINUE READING »
Elephant in the DRS room
Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 in Technology 6 comments
This post was triggered by the latest VMWare article on DRS performance. I have been thinking and talking about this subject ever since I first saw a DRS demo at VMworld in September 2008 in Las Vegas.
DRS (Dynamic Resource Scheduler) is an awesome piece of technology…
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Legacy software
Posted Friday, July 03, 2009 in News 2 comments
As a founder of Virsto, part of my job is to be absolutely convinced that problems we've set out to solve are fundamental, difficult to solve, and important to large numbers of customers. It is very satisfying to find others sharing my views. I recently came across a series of posts by Jerome Wendt…
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hello, world
Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in News 2 comments
Today, we announced our closing of a $7 million series A venture capital investment, led by Vivek Mehra of August Capital, with continued participation by our seed investor Maha Ibrahim at Canaan Partners. We’re awfully proud to be working with them, and are glad to have their support as we prepare to launch our first product later this year.
It’s a tough market out there for startups raising capital…
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