CIOs seek to reduce or halt cloud spending per Venture Beat

Zia Yusuf, VMware's former ecosystem chief, invested in VergeIO and joined its board, the second VMware leader in weeks after CTO Kit Colbert. One built the partner engine, the other set the technology. Both reached the same verdict: leaving VMware means moving to a private cloud operating system.

Most data centers still react to ransomware through backup, and the recovery gap costs them days. Using infrastructure to prepare for ransomware changes the posture. VergeOS contains attacks inside a VDC, holds clean immutable snapshots, detects encryption in the storage layer within minutes, and recovers the data center, not one VM.

An AI-powered VMware alternative now runs in production. Verge CLI gives VergeOS three parts, a command-line interface, an MCP server, and agent skills, so an AI assistant operates compute, storage, networking, and data protection through one API in plain language. See how it works and why one code base changes the result.