July 21, 2010 — Virtualization Review
Manage Virtual Storage in Hyper-V 
Most IT managers will agree that Microsoft Hyper-V has some catching up to do with the VMware hypervisor when it comes to the management and flexibility of handling large virtual machine (VM) collections. And while the latest improvements -- such as live migration and dynamic storage allocation -- in the Windows Server 2008 R2 edition are welcome, they are but baby steps toward where VMware Inc. is today, particularly when it comes to provisioning storage.
June 22, 2010 — ChannelWeb
2010 Storage Superstars: 25 You Need To Know
The People That Make Storage Happen. Advances in storage hardware, software, management, and virtualization technology could never have taken place without the dedication, nay, the fanaticism, of a dedicated group of Storage Superstars. Virsto's Alex Miroshnichenko number 16!
June 14, 2010 — DABCC
Hyper-V Podcast with Mark Davis
In episode 125, Douglas Brown interviews Mark Davis, CEO at Virsto Software. Mark and Doug discuss Virsto Software’s Virsto One storage solution for Hyper-V. Mark does an amazing job explaining their Virsto One solution, how it works, its benefits, what it takes to install, how they compare and contrast to the competition, why you should care, and much more.
June 4, 2010 — Network World
Startup solves Microsoft's Hyper-V storage problem
One of Hyper-V's biggest problems, the high cost of storage associated with VM server sprawl, is being fixed by an add-on product from Virsto Software, a storage virtualization startup with an all-star management team, in Sunnyvale, Calif.
May 12, 2010 — Tech News World
The Virtual Machine Backup-and-Recovery Conundrum
Server virtualization has crossed the proverbial chasm. Not long ago, when deploying new servers, one had to justify making them virtual, rather than physical.
May 4, 2010 — Virtualization Review
Back in the U.S.S.R.
The memories of working in the IT industry in a post-Cold-War Russia remain vivid for Virsto CTO Alex Miroshnichenko.
April 6, 2010 — Enterprise Systems Journal
Q & A: Server Virtualization and Storage
Virtualization is so radically different from physical computing that entirely new approaches to storage are required. So why aren’t vendors keeping up?
March 26, 2010 — Enterprise Storage Forum
Server Virtualization Drives Storage Networking Sales
Server virtualization is obviously great business for virtualization software vendors, but the surprise is that it's been even better business for data storage vendors, as organizations are spending tons of money to store and back up all their virtual machines.
March 26, 2010 — Network World
10 Hot tools for the next generation data center
As much as server virtualization benefits the enterprise, it brings with it a host of storage management challenges, from increased data volumes to performance issues.
March 10, 2010 — Virtualization.Info
Virsto Software leaves stealth mode and enters virtual storage optimization market
A new US startup entered the virtualization market in mid-February: Virsto.
March 1, 2010 — CIO
Cloud, Virtualization: Wasting IT Resources
Despite enhancements on both cloud and virtual computing products, major vendors aren't taking into account many of the ways even a technology designed to save IT resources can unintentionally waste them.
March 1, 2010 — Network Computing
Virsto shrinks virtual storage
Any day now, storage managers should get happier - a lot happier. Virsto Software is due to ship Virsto One, the first hypervisor-based storage solution that aims at reducing the size of VMs while improving their performance.
February 22, 2010 — Infoworld
Virsto Software tackles storage virtualization for Hyper-V
Q&A: Virsto One provides high-performance, thin-provisioned snapshots and clones, and dramatically increases I/O performance for Hyper-V environments
February 22, 2010 — Network World
Virsto launches server/storage virtualization product
Virsto emerged from stealth mode last week with the introduction of software for storage virtualization in Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
February 19, 2010 — Infostor
Virsto offers hypervisor based storage for Hyper-V
Startup Virsto Software is taking a new tack toward storage virtualization for virtual servers. The company is poised to release Virsto One, a hypervisor-based software plug-in that is said to improve the storage capacity utilization and performance problems associated with virtual machine (VM) sprawl.
February 17, 2010 — Channel Insider
Virsto Tackles Storage Virtualization
Startup Virsto is looking to do for storage what VMware has done for servers -- simplify administration, lower costs and eliminate storage sprawl.
February 17, 2010 — Network World
Microsoft partner tackles storage problems in virtual data centers
A storage virtualization start-up called Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualized data centers.
February 17, 2010 — ServerWatch
Virtualization Technologies for Storage Get Real
As virtualization and cloud computing continue a seemingly endless trajectory of prominence, their disadvantages is becoming as clear to those in the trenches as those on top perceive their benefits.
February 17, 2010 — Virtualization Practice
Virsto promises more than linked clones for Hyper-V
Aimed for those who use medium sized storage for virtualization loads, Virsto will add quite a bit of needed functionality to Hyper-V to reduce disk space requirements, improve general disk IO performance, as well as provide faster high availability failover.
February 16, 2010 — EWeek
Newcomer Virsto unveils new hypervisor-based storage optimization
Startup Virsto on Feb. 16 introduced both itself and a new brand of storage virtualization software, a product which the company promises will put much-needed law and order into willy-nilly data flow inside virtualized systems.
February 16, 2010 — ESG
Virsto extends virtualization value into storage
For those of you who think that the storage and I/O paths in a virtualized environment have already been solved by VMware, think again.
February 16, 2010 — Virtual Strategy
Podcast: Interview with Virsto CEO and co-founder Mark Davis
VSM speaks with Mark Davis, CEO and co-founder of Virsto Software, about optimizing storage management in a virtual server environment.
February 16, 2010 — Search Storage
Virsto Software launches Virsto One
Startup Virsto Software is coming out of stealth with a product now in public beta that looks to improve storage management for customers using Microsoft Hyper-V to virtualize servers.
February 16, 2010 — CTO Edge
Virsto takes virtual I/O challenge
One of the downsides to server virtualization is the amount of storage consumed and the generally inefficient way that virtual machines handle I/O performance when it comes to storage.
February 16, 2010 — DCIG
Time for Microsoft Hyper-V to meet the future of storage virtualization: Virsto One
Server virtualization is clearly becoming the end game for all size data centers. But as they virtualize their physical servers using Microsoft Windows Servers 2008, new challenges emerge that range from managing each virtual machine's storage to effectively scaling up the number of the virtual machines (VMs) on each physical machine.
February 16, 2010 — Infoworld
Q & A Virsto CEO Mark Davis discusses storage in a virtual world
Davis describes flaws with using the same physical storage techniques and virtualization problems such as VM I/O blender, VM storage bloat, and backup, cluster scalability.
February 16, 2010 — Hosting Magazine
Virsto Introduces First Hypervisor-Based Storage Virtualization Software
Most data storage technologies deployed with virtual servers today were not designed specifically for server virtualization, and were designed based on assumptions that are true for physical servers, but are false for a virtual data center.
February 16, 2010 — Search Server Virtualization
Hyper-V add-on promises cheaper storage
New storage virtualization software from Virsto Software dramatically improves storage performance in Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments and, by extension, will help these IT shops reduce storage costs, beta testers say.
February 10, 2010
Datamation says Virsto is shaking up datacenters
Even before the unveiling of our first product, Datamation's Jeff Vance named Virsto Software as one of 10 emerging virtualization companies shaking up datacenters in 2010…
February 2, 2010
A Live Wire Talks Live Migration and Broken Storage
Mark Davis, co-founder of Virsto (as in "virtual storage") Software…talk[s] freely about how virtualization is "breaking" storage, how people are retrofitting physical storage for use in the virtual world, and how the lifecycle of VMs is different from that of their physical counterparts…
December 28, 2009
New Approaches to Storage Sprawl in IT Business Edge
Virsto… is scheduled to launch its flagship management system in a few months. …CEO Mark Davis has been critical of standard storage I/O and snapshot/dedupe approaches to combat multiple VMs' impact on storage infrastructure
December 9, 2009 — Virtual Strategy Magazine
Storage at the front of the 2010 Agenda
Virtualization makes loads of sense in good times. The grinding economy strengthens the impetus. As experienced virtualization customers have the scars to prove, the pain of the unique storage problems caused by virtual machines grows as storage grows. And no matter how dire the economy, storage grows exponentially.
If you’re virtualizing in 2010, storage will be a problem for you. Sorry to bear bad news...
December 8, 2009 — VMblog.com
2010 Shines a Light on Mistaken Storage Assumptions
In 2010, the virtualization world will start dealing with a decision collectively made by the industry when virtual servers were born: to treat storage under virtual servers the same as physical servers. It was a convenient compromise. As long as we didn't push virtual infrastructure too hard, it seemed to work...
November 20, 2009 — Processor
Storage's Next Wave; Roots of future storage generations are already growing in data center environments
Mark Davis, CEO of Virsto Software, points to data center servers in 1999. “Big. Expensive. Most ran a variant of Unix that was proprietary and built by the same company that made the hardware. Choosing a server vendor for your data center applications was like getting married—it wasn’t trivial to switch vendors if you changed your mind later. If you needed to scale, you bought a bigger box,” he says. Today's storage systems resemble those servers of the 1990s, Davis explains...
October 26, 2009 — InfoWorld
Virtualization Q&A; Virsto Software CEO Mark Davis discusses storage in the virtual world
Davis describes flaws with using the same physical storage techniques and virtualization problems such as VM I/O blender, VM storage bloat, and backup, cluster scalability...
