Who/When?
The founders have each spent over two decades (working together for most of that time) building data center management software. The founding team came from SMARTS, the leading provider of system and network root cause analysis solutions (acquired by EMC in 2004).
Realizing that virtualization redefines data center management needs, the founders started VMTurbo in 2009, backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
Why?
(Top 10 Reasons to choose VMTurbo)
Traditional IT architectures have been typically based on silos, with computing resources dedicated to specific applications and over-engineered to accommodate peak demands and growth. Emerging virtualization systems have been replacing these silos with a layer of shared resources, multiplexed among dynamic workload demands. This consolidation of resources and workloads can result in dramatic productivity gains, improving the efficiency of IT infrastructures, and applications performance, while reducing IT costs. However, virtualization leads to novel operations management challenges, beyond the scope of traditional paradigms. In particular:
- Virtual machine (VM) resource utilization and performance behaviors may be dramatically different from those of physical servers. In contrast with physical servers, VMs see their resources fluctuate dynamically and may experience interference from other VMs.
- Virtualization increases the utilization of physical resources, possibly driving applications beyond the boundaries of safe operations.
- Virtualization eliminates IT silo boundaries, making each layer of the IT stack more sensitive to interference by the others. These interferences can lead to reduced performance, availability, and efficiency and reduced ROI at every layer of the IT stack.
Virtualization thus requires new resource and performance management technologies to handle these factors of complexity. These technologies need to replace manual partitioned management with ROI-centric, proactive, scalable, automated, and unified resource and performance management. Without proper management of the virtualized data center, "Virtualization 2.0" initiatives stall.
(For more information about why we started VMTurbo, check out our white paper, “Operations Management in the Age of Virtualization.”)
What?
VMTurbo’s vision is to provide a killer app for managing virtualized data centers, enabling customers to maximize the ROI of their virtualization investment. Our Virtualization Management Suite automates the decision of what workload to run where and when to maximize the ROI of virtualized and cloud environments, enabling customers to do more with less IT resources. The suite “ties the viewing with the doing” through abstraction, analytics and automation. With VMTurbo, you can find and fix problems today; automate to prevent problems in the future; and plan for the future and report on how you performed.
VMTurbo leverages our Economic Scheduling Engine to enable proactive and automated management of workload and resources in virtualized data centers. Only VMTurbo provides a holistic view of your virtual infrastructure, and detailed action plans with respect to workload placement and resource allocation. Our customers accomplish ever more, with less IT resources, by using our suite to analyze, optimize and control their virtual infrastructure.
(For more information about what we’re building, check out our products and technology pages.)
Where?
VMTurbo is headquartered in Massachusetts, with offices in New York, California, United Kingdom and Israel. [Office locations...]