Posts in category "Media"

Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Virsto Adding Citrix XenDesktop Support

Tags: Virsto VDI, virtual desktops

With the recent announcement of our support for XenDesktop 5 on ESX/ESXi, we’re now offering Virsto’s performance, space-efficiency, cluster-awareness, and time-saving benefits to roughly 80% of the VDI market on vSphere.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Wow, what a quarter!

Tags: customers

Not long ago, I blogged about our first year of shipping product and all the accomplishments Virsto achieved in 2010.

We've since finished the first quarter of 2011, and all I can say — once again — is "Wow!"

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Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Virsto for Virtual Desktops (VDI)

Tags: Hyper-V, Virsto VDI, virtual desktops, virtualization, VM I/O blender

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Mark Davis, CEO

Wow, what a year!

Tags: customers, startups, Virsto One

Just over twelve months ago, Virsto Software released our first product to the world.

February 2010 was the culmination of several years of work to develop this product, yet it also was the commencement of addressing some key challenges in the virtual and cloud computing market. We’re confident it will lead to even more years of success and further evolution.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Abracadabra! A new release of Virsto One

Tags: bloggers & media, Hyper-V, Microsoft, no dupe, Virsto One, virtualization, VMware, Xen

The Magic of Virsto OneArthur C. Clarke said it best.  "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Please welcome the latest magic from Virsto's rockin' engineering team: Virsto One v1.2.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Blog: Real Storage for the Virtual World

Tags: bloggers & media, people, virtualization

A great source of information on virtualization is Virtualization Review. To give you more technical information straight from the expert horses' mouths, VR editor Bruce Hoard has assembled a sharp group of CTOs to blog about their areas of expertise. One of those CTOs is Virsto's Alex Miroshnichenko…

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virsto_admin

Check. Check. Check.  Priceless!

Tags: bloggers & media, people

Rock star. Check.

Product star. Check.

Storage Superstar. Check. 

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Mark Davis, CEO

Virsto at House of Blues NOLA

Tags: humor, Microsoft, people

Virsto at House of Blues NOLAVirsto's Steve Gearing brings down the house at Microsoft's Tech•Ed virtualization party at the House of Blues in New Orleans…

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Mark Davis, CEO

Best of Tech•Ed finalist

Tags: Microsoft, Virsto One

Best of Tech•EdVirsto is proud to have been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Best of Tech•Ed competition…

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Mark Davis, CEO

Morgan Stanley’s 10th CTO Summit

Tags: customers, startups

Morgan StanleyMorgan 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…

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virsto_admin

And the winner of the Virsto Xbox is…

Tags: people

Drum roll please....Virsto One

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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Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

New release of Virsto One!

Tags: storage sprawl, Virsto One

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…

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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

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

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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Mark Davis, CEO

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

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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