First NxTop Beta is Live!
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
We are celebrating a major milestone at Virtual Computer this week, as we now have our first NxTop beta customer up and running. We would like to thank Steve Dale for being the first to take the plunge. He’s the guy on the right who looks like he would think nothing of riding his Harley over to our office to “express his displeasure” if things aren’t working correctly. We have a debate going internally here about whether Mark from our engineering team (left) is really so soft that he needs to wear a winter hat and coat in an air conditioned data center, or if he was just prepared for a quick getaway if the install went south (thankfully, it didn’t).
All joking aside, one of the most rewarding things about working at Virtual Computer has been setting very aggressive goals for ourselves and then working as a team to deliver the impossible. When we first began work on NxTop, our goal of having a working end-to-end product that we could “wow” people with at VMworld in September followed by a beta in November seemed a bit outlandish. We are now two-for-two thanks to the hard work of our engineering team, the innovation and drive of our VP of Engineering, and a CTO with a big idea and an uncanny ability to knock down any technical obstacle in our way.
We have had overwhelming interest in the NxTop beta program, and we will continue to grow our base of beta implementations in the coming weeks and months. If you have already expressed interested and haven’t heard from us yet, you will soon. If you haven’t yet expressed interest and would like to, you can do so here.
Happy Thanksgiving!
