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| Because storage makes up such a large part of the costs of any cloud-based infrastructure, it is an obvious place to look for cost reductions. System Solutions, Inc. (SSI), a King of Prussia, Pa.-based IT solutions provider, took that advice to heart in building MySecureCloud, a hosted infrastructure solution targeted at small and medium businesses (SMBs). | |
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| February 11 2013 |
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When you start a company, it’s all about the dream, an idea about achieving what most people think impossible, yet inspires great innovation and the willingness of a brilliant team to pour their sweat and blood into changing the world. It has to be that inspiring. Otherwise, why bother?
In the fall of 2007, the founders of Virsto – Alex Miroschnichenko, Serge Pashenkov, and me – had a dream. And ... read more >> |
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| October 25 2012 |
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At this year’s VMworld 2012, held in San Francisco at the Moscone Center, the “software-defined data center” was a major topic. The idea is appealing: make the entire IT infrastructure completely fluid so that all resources – compute, network, and storage – can be quickly and easily allocated or reclaimed to meet dynamic business requirements (including predictable performance), thereby extending the ... read more >> |
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| August 31 2012 |
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After an exciting month of poetry-meets-storage in virtualized environments, we are happy to announce the winners of our first ever Haiku contest. The contest pulled in almost 100 creative haikus and we are pleased to have decided on a winner of the iPad 3 grand prize as well as the second and third place cash prize winners.
The Twitter-based contest asked contestants to share a haiku poem via Twitter expressing their best or worst ... read more >> |
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| August 20 2012 |
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We’re pleased today to announce the next generation of our storage hypervisor, purpose built software designed to deliver better performance, capacity utilization, and storage agility for virtual machines.
The news:
Virsto for vSphere 1.5 now Generally Available
VM-level storage management and seamless integration with VMware vCenter and View Manager
Virsto’s storage hype ... read more >> |
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| August 03 2012 |
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You don't have to have a crystal ball to know that there will be some major acquisitions within the next year that will round out the virtualization requirements (CPU, memory, storage, network) for the software-defined data center.
In the wake of VMware’s $1.26B acquisition of Nicira, there’s been a lot of discussion around the concept of the software-defined data center. When VMware introduced the concept of ... read more >> |
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| July 24 2012 |
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Today we launched a storage in virtualized environments haiku poem contest on Twitter. The contest gives anyone an opportunity to share a haiku poem via Twitter expressing their best or worst storage experiences working with virtualized environments.
We all know that server virtualization fundamentally changes the way work ... read more >> |
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| June 19 2012 |
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Virsto Software's Gregg Holzrichter gives an overview of the latest industry trends in hardware and software-based innovations for solving the problem of storage inefficiency in virtualized workloads.
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| June 18 2012 |
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Virsto combines a number of different technologies which simultaneously work together to save 90% or more physical storage capacity relative to the way most people deploy their storage in virtual computing environments. As people learn about our technology for the first time, understanding exactly how we save space may be a bit tricky to follow.
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| May 30 2012 |
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Virtual infrastructure today suffers from a significant problem: because of its very random, very write-intensive I/O patterns, it uses storage very inefficiently. This is true regardless of whether we’re talking about server or desktop workloads. I just attended the BriForum 2012 event in London where there was a lot of discussion about how to address this problem in desktop virtualization environments, and it really ... read more >> |
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