Mark Davis, CEO

Virsto is hiring an office manager / administrative assistant

Tags: people, startups

We're looking to hire someone who can ensure that all our admin operations are handled perfectly.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a lot of energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm who wants to be an impact player in a hot Silicon Valley startup.

If you know someone who is a fit, please have them contact us…

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Mark Davis, CEO

The Debut of Virsto One

Tags: Virsto One

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 OneVirsto One is the first and only hypervisor based storage virtualization solution built from the ground up for the unique needs of virtual servers.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Pre-launch coverage

Tags: bloggers & media

A few industry publications DCIG, Virtualization Review, and Datamation mentioned us recently.  You might want to take a look.

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Mark Davis, CEO

IT professionals talk about Hyper-V

Tags: Hyper-V, people

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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Mark Davis, CEO

New Approaches to Storage Sprawl in IT Business Edge

Tags: excessive storage spending, storage sprawl

IT Business EdgeArthur Cole at IT Business Edge posted an article about the problems of storage sprawl in a VM environment.  Thanks Arthur for mentioning Virsto.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Getting ready to launch

Tags: people, startups

Confident, ready to launchVirsto 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.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Virtual Strategy Magazine: Storage at the front of the 2010 Virtualization Agenda

Tags: false assumptions, Hyper-V

Virtual Strategy Magazine Executive ViewpointIf one "forecast for 2010" article is good, surely two are better.

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Mark Davis, CEO

VMblog: 2010 Shines a Light on Mistaken Storage Assumptions

Tags: false assumptions

VMblog.com 2010 predictionsIt'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.

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Mark Davis, CEO

You get less of what you tax

Tags: people, pricing

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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Mark Davis, CEO

Evolution of a startup website

Tags: startups


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…

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Mark Davis, CEO

Thoughts on the Dumb Disk Fallacy

Tags: false assumptions

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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Mark Davis, CEO

Who wants to set the world on fire?

Tags: people, startups

Virsto is in need of stellar product management talent…

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Mark Davis, CEO

Will storage go the way of the server?

Tags: false assumptions, virtualization

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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Mark Davis, CEO

Movin’ on up, to the east side

Tags: humor, startups

movin on up...the Jeffersons theme song…of highway 101…

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Yesterday’s most surprising news story out of VMworld

Tags: EMC, humor, VMware

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…
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Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Elephant in the DRS room

Tags: excessive storage spending, VMware

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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Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Legacy software

Tags: false assumptions, Symantec

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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Mark Davis, CEO

hello, world

Tags: startups

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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