Posts in category "Alternative Solutions"

What’s wrong with the scorecard?

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2012 in Alternative Solutions          0 comments

Tags: Storage hypervisor

One phenomenon you can bet on happening, especially when there are billions of dollars of market opportunity at stake, is for some people to define the category in a way that is inclusive of old technologies which can’t legitimately fulfill new requirements.

Part 2 in a series...

Thank You Ideas International

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Monday, April 16, 2012 in Alternative Solutions          0 comments

Tags: Storage hypervisor

Last week Ideas International posted their inaugural scorecard for storage hypervisors.

As the company that first used the term storage hypervisor, Virsto Software applauds Tony, Angelina, and Joe at Ideas for giving voice to this important topic.

Lightning, thunder and turbines: Oh my

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Thursday, February 09, 2012 in Alternative Solutions          0 comments

Tags: excessive storage spending, performance, virtualization

CIOs we speak with confirm that storage budgets have been hit with a force 5 hurricane due to the widespread adoption of server virtualization. One thing’s for sure: neither PCIe SSD cards nor SSD storage appliances will provide shelter for buffeted storage budgets.

Want your virtual environment to perform?  Spend more money on storage.

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Saturday, April 23, 2011 in Alternative Solutions          0 comments

Tags: false assumptions, Hyper-V, storage sprawl

Even after a couple years at Virsto, I am still amused at advice to solve performance issues by wasting disk space.

The Case of the Pending VM Snapshot Merge

by Serge Pashenkov

Posted Friday, December 10, 2010 in Alternative Solutions          0 comments

Tags: Hyper-V

Over on the Microsoft TechNet blog, Jeremy Hagan speaks of the woes of native snapshots in Microsoft Hyper-V.

Here, I suggest a much better solution.

A hypervisor IO performance benchmarking recipe

by Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Posted Friday, October 08, 2010 in Alternative Solutions          5 comments

Tags: Hyper-V, Microsoft, performance, Virsto One, virtualization, VM I/O blender, VMware

This post is in response to a comment from Eric Gray to my post about hypervisor IO performance.

Eric asked for more details about how to run certain IO benchmarks, so I'll provide that here.

I/O performance: Not all hypervisors deliver the same results

by Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Posted Sunday, October 03, 2010 in Alternative Solutions          2 comments

Tags: bloggers & media, Hyper-V, no dupe, performance, storage sprawl, Virsto One, VM I/O blender, VMware, Xen

Over on the TechNet site, VMware’s Eric Gray asked a couple followup questions to my guest post on the Microsoft Virtualization team blog. I can’t give a complete response in a brief comment, so I’m moving the discussion over here to the Virsto blog.