EMA Finds Software Defined Storage ‘Missing Link’ for Cloud and the Software Defined Datacenter

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 23, 2013 — Virsto® Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric software defined storage, today announced that research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT and data management research and consulting firm, supports the need for more intelligent, high performance and hardware independent storage hypervisors to realize the potential of truly software defined datacenters. The new “Demystifying Cloud” research[1] from EMA identified the cost of acquiring and provisioning storage as a major pain point when implementing cloud technologies on the path to the software defined datacenter.

Storage Magazine Names Virsto Software-Defined Storage ‘Product of the Year’ Finalist

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 15, 2013 — Virsto® Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric software-defined storage, today announced that its storage hypervisor, Virsto for vSphere 1.5, has been selected as a 2012 Product of the Year finalist in the Enterprise Storage System Software category by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com. Virsto’s storage hypervisor delivers purpose built, high-performance data services, including I/O optimization, high-performance thin provisioning, scalable snapshots, and space-efficient clones as VM-centric software-defined storage, supporting any existing block storage and any virtualized workload.

Virsto for vSphere 2.0 Delivers Software Defined Storage to the Data Center

LAS VEGAS, NV. —  December 4, 2012 — Gartner Data Center Conference —Virsto® Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric storage hypervisor software, today announced the general availability of Virsto for vSphere 2.0. The new version offers fully-integrated support for both Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View, enhanced high availability (HA) capabilities and significant workflow optimizations. With Virsto for vSphere 2.0, XenDesktop customers can achieve an over 50 percent reduction in storage cost per desktop, while improving VDI performance up to 10x.

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EMA Research Finds Software Defined Storage Critical ‘Missing Link’ for Cloud and the Software Defin

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