Press releases
January 30, 2012
Virsto Selected as Product of the Year Finalist by Storage Magazine
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 30, 2011 — Virsto® Software today announced that Virsto for VDI, Hyper-V Edition has been selected as a 2011 Product of the Year finalist in the Storage System Software category by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com.
January 17, 2012
Virsto Software Extends Storage Hypervisor Leadership with Release of Virsto for vSphere and Virsto for Virtual Servers, Hyper-V Edition, 2.0
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Jan. 17, 2012 — Virsto® Software today announced the general availability of Virsto for vSphere, and Virsto for Hyper-V 2.0. With these releases, Virsto delivers advanced storage capabilities for server virtualization to extend the benefits of virtualization beyond the server, transforming them into storage hypervisors.
December 8, 2011
Virsto Named Winner of “Best Storage Savings” in the Citrix Ready Storage Challenge
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – December 8, 2011 — Virsto® Software, today announced its recognition by Citrix Ready® as the “Best Storage Savings” solution in the 2011 Storage Challenge. Citrix invited all Citrix Ready storage partners to reveal what makes their storage solutions best for Citrix XenDesktop environments.
December 6, 2011
Virsto Appoints Vice President of Sales to Keep Pace with Company Growth
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Dec. 6, 2011 — Virsto® Software today announced it has appointed Kaycee Lai as Vice President of Sales. In this role, Lai will be responsible for global sales, direct and indirect strategy and operations, and will implement sales processes to scale with Virsto’s accelerating customer acquisition.
November 30, 2011
Virsto CEO Shares Top Five Data Center Predictions for 2012
Virsto™ Software today released CEO Mark Davis’s data center industry predictions for the coming year.
October 26, 2011
Virsto Storage Hypervisor Solution Certified as Citrix Ready
Virsto™ Software today announced that the Virsto Software storage hypervisor was validated as Citrix Ready®. The first VM-Centric storage hypervisor to achieve the Citrix Ready designation, Virsto brings increased storage utilization gains, ease of virtual desktop provisioning to Citrix® XenDesktop® and a reduction in the cost of storage in virtual desktop environments of more than 50 percent.
October 13, 2011
Virsto ‘Storage Hypervisor’ Solution Earns Certification for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Virsto™ Software today announced that Virsto for VDI, Hyper-V edition, has earned certification for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Virsto for Hyper-V is the first storage hypervisor solution to be certified for Windows Server 2008.
September 29, 2011
Virsto Software to Discuss Virtualization Pain Points at Interop 2011 Conference
Eric Burgener, Vice President of Product Management, will join a panel of industry experts from Focus, Veeam Software and EMC at the upcoming Interop New York 2011 Conference to discuss common pain points with virtualization implementation and expansion and provide ideas for minimizing the challenges while optimizing storage.
September 13, 2011
Virsto Software to Present at Virtualization and Cloud ExecEvent
Eric Burgener, VP of Product Management, will speak at the Virtualization and Cloud Event, put on by ExecEvent. Taking place September 14 – 16 in Santa Clara, California, ExecEvent is an exclusive networking event for senior executives in data storage, virtualization, cloud and data center management.
August 29, 2011
Virsto Enters VMware Market; Announces Virsto for VDI, vSphere Edition
Virsto™ Software today reached a significant milestone in the company’s product roadmap and vision by extending support to VMware vSphere. With today’s beta release announcement of Virsto for VDI, vSphere Edition, Virsto becomes the industry’s first multi-hypervisor solution to address the storage challenges specific to virtualized environments.
August 25, 2011
Virsto Software Adds $5 Million to Oversubscribed Series B Round
Virsto Software today announced it has executed a follow on investment of $5 million to its June 8 Series B round, bringing the total investment in the round to $17 million.
July 30, 2011
Virsto Selected by AlwaysOn as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner
Virsto Software today announced that it has earned a spot on the AlwaysOn Global 250 list. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley.
June 8, 2011
Virsto Closes $12 Million Series B Funding to Transform Virtual Machine Storage
Virsto Software today announced $12 million in Series B venture capital funding. In addition, Virsto today announced its acquisition of EvoStor, a company specializing in storage virtualization technology for VMware environments.
April 5, 2011
Virsto Introduces Innovative Storage Virtualization Software for Virtual Desktop Deployments
Hypervisor-based Virsto VDI dramatically increases I/O in virtualized environments while reducing virtual desktop storage capacity consumption by up to 90% and cost by more than 70%
April 5, 2011
Virsto Software Launches Global Partner Program
Innovator of hypervisor-based storage virtualization software enables VARS from around the world to dramatically improve customer’s storage performance, increase storage utilization and reduce costs in server and desktop virtualization environments.
March 3, 2011
Virsto Software Appoints Gregg Holzrichter as Vice President of Marketing and Eric Burgener as Vice President of Product Management
Virsto™ Software, an innovator in optimized storage virtualization software, today announced the appointment of Gregg Holzrichter as vice president of marketing and Eric Burgener as vice president of product management.
February 23, 2011
Storage Virtualization Software Provider Virsto Gains Customer Momentum as More Enterprises Seek to Improve Storage Performance in Virtualized Environments
Virsto™ Software, an innovator in storage solutions for virtual computing, is marking its successful first-year anniversary of the launch of its flagship product, Virsto One by hitting a number of key customer and product milestones.
February 1, 2011
Systems Solution Inc. Deploys Virsto to Gain Greater Performance and Revenue from Its Cloud-Based Hosted Infrastructure Solution
SSI’s MySecureCloud, a comprehensive hosted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering that provides secure, on-demand private cloud environments built on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, has obtained high I/O performance and increased virtual machine (VM) density since deploying Virsto One.
November 9, 2010
Millard Lumber Implements Virsto Software to Put Their Microsoft Hyper-V Environment into Hyper Drive
Millard Lumber, an Omaha, Nebraska-based construction products and services company, has implemented Virsto One™ to create a high performance, flexible, and cost-efficient storage solution based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtualization.
September 13, 2010
Virsto Delivers Advanced Capabilities and Expanded Integration with Microsoft with New Release of Hypervisor-Based Storage Software
Company expands relationship with Microsoft, joins the Microsoft System Center Alliance and increases support for Microsoft core technologies, providing superior storage performance Virsto™ Software, an innovator in storage solutions for virtual servers, today announced its popular Virsto One software will add advanced support for Microsoft datacenter and infrastructure solutions, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 and Microsoft System Center, through its work with Microsoft as a Microsoft System Center Alliance partner.
June 2, 2010
Virsto Named “Best of Tech·Ed 2010 Awards Finalist”
Provider of Hypervisor-Based Storage Virtualization Software is Only Startup Selected in Virtualization Category Virsto Software, an innovator in storage solutions for virtual servers, today announced that Virsto One was named a Finalist in the Best of Tech·Ed 2010 awards program in the virtualization category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.
February 15, 2010
Virsto Introduces First Hypervisor-Based Storage Virtualization Software Designed to Meet Evolving Demands of Virtual Servers
Team with extensive storage and virtualization expertise delivers a new approach to virtual server storage. Virsto Software today introduced its innovative storage virtualization software, Virsto One. Designed to increase the agility of storage in virtual environments, Virsto One is the first and only hypervisor-based storage solution that can anticipate the evolving demands, barriers and opportunities native to server virtualization…
June 25, 2009
Virsto Software, an Innovator in Storage Solutions for Virtualized Servers, Completes $7 Million Round of Funding
Virsto Software, an innovator in storage solutions for virtual servers, announced today it has completed its Series A round of funding, raising $7 million. The round was led by August Capital and includes Canaan Partners. Canaan Partners was also a seed investor in Virsto in 2008. Virsto will use the funds to launch its new storage solution for virtual servers...
