5. Storage: Virtual Servers are Different Physical Virtual Why are we doing storage the old way? Few OS images Many clones Low utilization Shared, no headroom Infrequent provisioning Rapid, real-time Clusters rare, small Ubiquitous, large Mainframe hardware Commodity
6. Storage for the Virtual Age Virsto Software Cloud, enterprise value Solves “VM Sprawl” 90% less disk space for OS images without performance issues Eliminates “VM I/O Blender” >2X I/O performance Rapid provisioning, even in huge clusters 25% less administrative overhead Any hypervisor, any storage Commoditization, reduce $/TB by >50%
9. Customers and Partners initial focus Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen customers Cloud infrastructure builders Medium to large enterprises partners Virtualization integrators, OEMs Storage IHVs, ISVs
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Editor's Notes
Hi, I’m Mark Davis, CEO of Virsto Software. A year and a half ago, my co-founders and I were speaking with customers who told us how virtual servers didn’t work so well with the traditional storage they were using. About the same time, we were talking with the CEO of a major virtualization company who told the same story: virtualization was revolutionizing data centers, yet nobody had gotten out a clean sheet of paper and designed a better kind of storage for the unique nature of virtual servers. We couldn’t believe it! The problems seemed so obvious, yet all the existing vendors were just tweaking old technologies, rather than thinking about the problems in a fresh way. That’s why we started Virsto Software. We provide virtual storage that is optimized for the unique needs of virtual servers. What Veritas Software was to client/server computing, Virsto is to virtual computing. (0:55)
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