Top 5 Virtualization startups

Updated: January 02, 2024 | Editor: Fernando Lopez

Virtualization startups are disrupting the industry by introducing innovative features such as containerization, software-defined infrastructure, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), network virtualization, and cloud-based virtualization management, revolutionizing how businesses optimize resource utilization, enhance scalability, improve security, and simplify IT infrastructure management, challenging traditional virtualization providers with more efficient and flexible solutions for virtualizing computing resources.
1
Nutanix
Country: USA | Funding: $1.1B
Nutanix is the first company to offer a radically simple compute and storage infrastructure for implementing enterprise-class virtualization without complex and expensive network storage (SAN or NAS).
2
Nexenta
Country: USA | Funding: $141.5M
Nexenta's Open Source Driven Software-Defined Storage delivers a scalable, cloud and virtualization-optimized solution for your enterprise
3
HiveIO
Country: USA
HiveIO offers a fast, secure cost-effective AI ready Software Defined Datacenter solutions. HiveIO Fabric platform is used by customers across multiple verticals with diverse workload types including VDI, VSI, Grid Compute and Hadoop environments.
4
Workspot
Country: USA | Funding: $59.8M
Workspot is an insanely simple, turnkey cloud service for securely delivering Windows 10 desktops from the cloud to any device.
5
Proxmox
Country: Austria
Proxmox offers the server virtualization management platform.
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com