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Storage Magazine Names Virsto Software-Defined Storage 'Product of the Year' Finalist
SUNNYVALE, CA, Jan 15, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Virsto(R) 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.
"This award recognizes innovative technology solutions that are
making a real impact in the evolution of storage," said Mark Davis,
CEO of Virsto Software. "This recognition comes at an especially
exciting time for Virsto, as the IT industry is desperately seeking a
more cost-effective, efficient, and agile storage architecture to
realize the promise of the software defined datacenter. Virsto's
unique implementation of VM-centric software-defined storage via our
storage hypervisor is the missing link to realizing this exciting
vision."
As the industry's first VM-centric storage hypervisor, Virsto
delivers differentiated software-defined storage functionality to
each virtual machine, regardless of the underlying storage. With
Virsto, all storage presented to virtual machines is high
performance, thin-provisioned and instantly available. Virsto removes
the storage inefficiencies of virtualized workloads and enables IT to
achieve the full performance potential of the block-based storage
deployed to support virtualized environments.
Among the hundreds of entries for the Storage Magazine and
SearchStorage.com 2012 Products of the Year, a panel of judges
selected 52 enterprise data storage systems products in six
categories as finalists, evaluating technical innovation, solid
value, practical functionality, performance, integration with
existing data storage infrastructures, ease of use and manageability.
To learn more about the Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com 2012
Products of the Year finalists, go to
http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/feature/Storage-system-software-2012-Products-of-the-Year-finalists
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Supporting Resources
-- Virsto Software
-- Storage Hypervisor
-- The Missing Link in Software-Defined Storage
-- Virsto blog
-- Virsto on Twitter
-- Virsto on YouTube
-- Virsto on Slideshare
About Virsto Software
Virsto(R) Software offers the industry's first
VM-centric storage hypervisor, delivering purpose-built
software-defined storage and changing the economics of storage in
virtualized environments. Virsto improves storage utilization by up
to 90 percent, increases performance by up to 10x, and accelerates VM
storage provisioning by more than 99 percent. Virsto reduces the cost
and complexity of storage for VDI, test and development, tier 1
application virtualization, cloud computing and other virtualization
initiatives. Founded in 2007, Virsto is backed by leading Silicon
Valley venture firms. For more information, visit www.virsto.com.
Virsto is a registered trademark of Virsto Software. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Tanya Espe
Kulesa Faul for Virsto
(650) 340-1912
Email Contact
SOURCE: Virsto Software
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