Virsto enters VMware market, unleashes storage hypervisor
Posted Monday, August 29, 2011 in Events, Technology 0 comments
Today Virsto officially entered the VMware market with the launch of Virsto for VDI, vSphere Edition. With our announcement, Virsto continues to deliver on the promise of the industry’s first storage hypervisor, with a software-based approach that simplifies the management of storage in virtualized environments and lets customers get much more out of their storage hardware investments. I believe our approach disrupts traditional storage in the same way VMware’s hypervisor transformed the server market. VMware didn’t enter the server market until 2001, but it’s hard for most of us to remember data center life before the impact of virtual servers.
The industry is recognizing that the storage side of virtual computing needs to catch up with the server side evolution that has occurred over the last ten years. Specifically, we need a hypervisor for storage just like we have a hypervisor for the server computing infrastructure. And that’s what we at Virsto set out to do in 2007. We believe that doing this well--and in a way that’s relevant to the industry--requires supporting all of the major virtualization use cases: server consolidation, test and development, virtual desktops and cloud computing. It also requires the ability to abstract the logical from the physical hardware, so that any storage hardware can be utilized effectively on any virtualization platform.
At least 90 percent of the customers I talk with have more than one hypervisor in place. The reality and the future is that of the multi-hypervisor data center. With the announcement of our first VMware product today, Virsto is demonstrating that a multi-hypervisor storage solution can provide customers with a consistently high level of storage functionality that is totally optimized for virtual machines, in a way that lets customers derive value from any hypervisor they are running. Until today, no product has ever been able to do this.
Our entrance into the VMware marketplace is an important step in our corporate strategy — but by no means the last step. Over the past four years, everything we’ve done at Virsto has been working toward this larger vision of supporting all the major hypervisors, which today’s announcement denotes.
We’ll be showing the latest in booth #260 at VMworld this week — stop by and see the future of storage in action.
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