Virsto

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Virsto

Company type	Private
Industry	Software
Founded	2007 (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.com

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]

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]}

• Storage hypervisor
• Storage virtualization
• Software defined storage

• 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?.

• Virsto