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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Software |
Founded | 2007 |
Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California |
Key people | Mark Davis, CEO, Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO, Serge Pashenkov, VP of Engineering |
Products | Virsto VSI, Virsto VDI |
Website | www |
Virsto develops a VM-centric storage hypervisor. The company is privately funded and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. On February 11, 2013, VMware announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto.[1]
History
[edit]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]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "VMware to Acquire Virsto". VMWare. 11 February 2013.
Further reading
[edit]- 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?.