Virsto company overview
Virsto’s goal is to become the “VMware of storage virtualization”.
Born around the understanding that to fulfill its promise, virtual computing required a new virtual storage architecture, Virsto Software chose to base its business around a pure software model that enhances customers’ existing investments in storage hardware. CEO Mark Davis pulled together a team of seasoned professionals with deep experience in both virtual computing and storage, and the company’s executive team boasts DNA from VMware, Citrix, Veritas/Symantec, Data Domain, and Sun Microsystems, among others.
The Virsto virtual storage architecture is hypervisor-agnostic, and our objective is to provide the ideal storage virtualization solution for all major type 1 hypervisor platforms. Our architecture was designed specifically to handle the very random, very write intensive environments typical in virtual computing – both server and desktop – with a scalable model that cost effectively deploys at the low end while at the same time being able to support large scale cloud computing environments.
Virsto was founded in 2007, and is backed by top tier venture capital firms Canaan Partners, August Capital, and InterWest Partners. Southern Cross Venture Partners and Correlation Ventures joined as new investors in 2011. Virsto is based in the heart of Silicon Valley – Sunnyvale, California – with satellite development operations in Melbourne, Australia and Minsk, Belarus.
