Virsto develops a VM-centric
storage hypervisor
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storag ...
. The company is privately funded and headquartered in
Sunnyvale
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Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north ...
,
California
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. On February 11, 2013,
VMware
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software ru ...
announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto.
History
Virsto was founded in 2007 by Mark Davis, Alex Miroshnichenko and Serge Pashenkov. In 2009, the company announced a $7 million
series A funding round. In 2011, the company announced a $17 million series B funding round.{{Citation needed, date=June 2020
See also
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Storage hypervisor
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storag ...
*
Storage virtualization
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Software defined storage
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storag ...
References
Further reading
* CRN, June 21, 2010.
2010 Storage Superstars: 25 You Need To Know'.
* Dan Kusnetzky, ZDNet, April 21, 2011.
Virtual Storage for Virtual Environments'.
* Jacob Nthoiwa, ITWeb, September 28, 2010.
Virtualisation Top of SME IT Spend'.
* InformationWeek, May 9, 2012.
Virsto Storage Hypervisor Now Supports Citrix XenDesktop'.
* All Things Digital, November 21, 2012.
The Storage Games'.
* Enterprise Systems Journal, December 3, 2012.
Virsto for vSphere 2.0 Delivers Software-Defined Storage to the Data Center'.
* ZDnet, January 18, 2013.
Is Storage Virtualization the Missing Link in vSphere Environments?'.
External links
Virsto
Defunct software companies of the United States
Computer storage companies
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California