Posts in category "Software Business"

Fresh financing, and an acquisition

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Thursday, June 09, 2011 in Software Business          1 comment

Tags: startups

Yesterday Virsto announced a $12 million series B round of venture capital financing. We also announced our first acquisition. Big milestones for a young company.

Cloud, storage, and venture capital opportunities

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Monday, January 10, 2011 in Software Business          2 comments

Tags: cloud

Storage sure looks sexy to venture investors these days. The acquisitions of 3PAR (HP), Isilon (EMC) and Compellent (Dell) add up to more than $5.5 billion. All three were storage hardware companies of the same vintage, about a decade old, and big wins for their VC investors. Looks like virtualization and cloud storage are the places to invest, no? Well, I sure think so, and placed a huge personal bet three years ago by starting a company precisely aimed at these markets…

The Debut of Virsto One

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 in News, Software Business          4 comments

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