Posts in category "Software Business"

Mark Davis, CEO

Fresh financing, and an acquisition

Tags: startups

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

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Mark Davis, CEO

Cloud, storage, and venture capital opportunities

Tags: cloud

VC JournalStorage 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…

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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

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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