Start-Up’s Profile: VirtualSharp Software

Company
VirtualSharp Software SL

Headquarters
Madrid, Spain and office in Maidenhead, UK (entry into UK market this month)

Born in
2010, spun off from ErmesTel SL, a Spanish systems integrator

Financial funding
Pre-Series A (angel investors)

Revenues and profitability
Not disclosed

Main executives

• CEO Carlos Escapa, former GM of VMware Southern Europe and EMEA VP channels at CA;
• Chairman Pedro Tortosa, CEO of Ermestel SL

Number of employees
10

Technology
Designed in 2008 by engineers of ErmesTel, the technology concept entitled ‘disaster recovery orchestration’ uses the core characteristics of virtualization to generate Virtual Verification Containers (vVCs), mini-data centers with their own resources and network. Snapshots of Virtual Machines (VMs) are loaded into the vVCs, and the ‘orchestrator’ verifies that the IT service is functioning according to recovery policies. The software allows IT administrators to simulate failover scenarios as often as required and automates the failover processes to the point where service is restored. In addition, it allows to be DR-assured individually and apply recovery policies aligned with the criticality of each IT service. IT administrators can carry out DR tests of individual IT services daily or hourly rather than yearly or quarterly. ReliableDR can run either stand-alone or as a VM in the secondary site, freeing the organization’s production assets from DR overhead.

Products
ReliableDR, comes in three different editions:

Price
From €6,000

Roadmap
Support of other virtualization vendors than VMware; P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) support for hybrid IT services; Microsoft Hyper-V; HBR (Host Based Replication); DR as a service

Distribution:
Will start with a limited number of integrators with strong virtualization and storage skills
 
Number of customers
Between 15 and 20

Main customers
BBVA, Santalucia Insurance, Caja Madrid

Applications
DR policy compliance; alignment of IT DR processes and corporate business continuity policy

Market
Companies virtualizing that use x86 IT systems for mission-critical purposes and have more than one data center

Competitors
Veeam SureBackup (partly), VMware Site Recovery Manager (configuration only)