VMTurbo, the only demand-driven control platform for the software-defined data center, today announced its 19
th
consecutive record quarter, achieving over 100% year-over-year growth
in Q1 of 2015. VMTurbo expanded its company-wide headcount to 313 by the
end of March, and added Dimension Data, Pearson Education, the Bancorp,
Lafarge, University of Vermont Medical Center, Angie’s List and Liberty
University to its ever-increasing list of customers.
“In Q1 2015,
we’ve seen record expansion in our core base of more than 1,000
customers using VMTurbo’s real-time control system to enhance the value
of their investments in VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat OpenStack
on KVM,” said Ben Nye, CEO. “According to Principled Technologies,
VMTurbo continuously assures – and indeed improves – the performance of
business applications by 37%, driving that expansion.”
Market Momentum
“With
the results from Q1 2015, we surpassed all expectations,” said Mo
Garad, CFO. “This quarter we saw a record ASP, record repeat purchasing
and record win rates, a direct result of our three-month ROI, which
grows more robust as our team engages customers at greater and greater
scale.”
Key metrics for the first quarter of 2015 include:
- Over 100% year-over-year growth
- Now
providing services to over 1,000 repeat and new customers. New
customers include Dimension Data, the Bancorp, Pearson Education,
Lafarge, University of Vermont Medical Center, Angie’s List, University
of Missouri Health System, Liberty University and Georgetown Hospital
System. Repeat customers include KPN, Rogers Communications, Kronos,
Kirkland & Ellis and CSC
- Increased company-wide headcount from 256 to 313 full-time employees
Technology Innovation
“Each
product release is yet another step in enabling our customers to
control any workload, on any type of infrastructure, anytime, anywhere,”
said Founder and President, Shmuel Kliger. “The expansion of
demand-driven control to the application layer is a continuation of this
journey, matching application demand to infrastructure supply, to
assure and even improve performance.”
Key Technology Innovations include:
- Release of Operations Manager 5.1,
extending coverage and control for the Application Control Module into
Java application servers including IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Red
Hat JBoss and Apache Tomcat
- Announced joint solution
with Pure Storage, the market’s leading independent solid-state array
vendor, offering integration with Pure Storage FlashArray and enabling
joint customers to maximize the value of their Pure Storage investment
through demand-driven placement decisions and volume sizing
- Continued support for OpenStack through the TurboStack
Home Lab OpenStack Summit giveaway, pre-loaded with a 7-node nested
OpenStack environment, managed by VMTurbo Operations Manager
Industry Recognition
“This
was an exciting quarter at VMTurbo, as we brought our TurboFest user
group events to different parts of the world, including Silicon Valley
and the UK,” said Geeta Sachdev, CMO. “We’ve seen incredible growth in
our online Green Circle Community, as customers and IT professionals
within the virtualization and cloud space engage one another to share
knowledge, industry perspectives and product feedback.”
Notable achievements include:
- Held inaugural Technology Steering Council
meeting in January, a forum for industry thought leaders to discuss IT
data center management challenges and growth trends. Ben Nye and Shmuel
Kliger were joined by TSC Chairman and EVP of HP Enterprise Group, Bill
Veghte, Managing Director and Head of Distributed Technology at
Barclays, Ian Penny, and VP and General Manager of Cloud Management at
Red Hat, Joe Fitzgerald
- Hosted first annual TurboFest West,
a day of cloud and virtualization thought leadership, in San Francisco.
Keynote presentations were given by OpenStack co-founder Joshua
McKenty, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi, as well as executives from HP, Arista
Networks and Pure Storage
- Hosted first EMEA-specific event, Turbofest London, with keynote address delivered by Barclays’ Ian Penny
- Recent study published by Principled Technologies found VMTurbo to improve application performance in a virtual environment by 37%
- Received Gold in Storage Magazine’s 2014 Storage Management Products of the Year
award, which rated VMTurbo Operations Manager highest for innovation,
ease of use and manageability and found it to be the best for managing
capacity and resource allocation