Virsto Final Under the Radar 2009
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$2.7B Virtualization Market
~10% of servers virtualized
VMware says: 8:1 storage
drag
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>40% revenue growth
Why Virtualize?
Consolidation
Liquid (Cloud) Computing
More responsive, greener, lower cost
The Storage Problem
Virtual servers
↑ Consume 20-40% more storage
↓ Can reduce I/O performance by >50%
↑ Increase storage management burden
↑ Require expensive storage hardware
Storage: Virtual Servers are Different
Physical
Virtual
Why are we doing storage the old way?
Few OS images Many clonesLow utilization Shared, no headroom
Infrequent provisioning Rapid, real-timeClusters rare, small Ubiquitous, large
Mainframe hardware Commodity
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%
CIOCIOCTOCTO
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ITITOPSOPS
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Product Targeting
eliminate everyday
headaches
SERVERSERVERADMINADMIN
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CORE
lower costs,simplify
management
solvestrategic problems
essential advanced
Virsto Background
funding Seeded by Canaan PartnersRaising series A
launch 1st product 2H 2009
team Mark Davis / CEOAlex Miroshnichenko / CTOSerge Pashenkov / VP Engineering •Deep expertise in virtualization, storage•IPOs, acquisitions•Thousands of happy customers
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Customers and Partners
initial focus Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen
customers Cloud infrastructure buildersMedium to large enterprises
partners Virtualization integrators, OEMsStorage IHVs, ISVs
