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VergeIO was featured during the IT Press Tour in California as a serious VMware alternative, highlighting the growing market adoption of its private cloud operating system, VergeOS. The article underscores VergeOS’s unified architecture, which consolidates compute, storage, networking, automation, and data protection into a single codebase, reducing complexity and lowering costs compared to traditional multi-layer virtualization stacks. With hardware reuse, integrated resilience, and a simplified licensing model, VergeIO continues to gain momentum among organizations seeking a long-term, strategic alternative to VMware.

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StorageNewsletter recently profiled VergeIO, highlighting the company’s rapid momentum in the VMware replacement market. The article underscores 80% year-over-year growth, ARR performance exceeding plan by more than 25%, and a privately funded model with no external dilution. It positions VergeOS as a differentiated Private Cloud Operating System that unifies virtualization, storage, networking, and data protection under a single control plane and simple per-node pricing model—driving strong enterprise adoption and accelerating market presence.

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The ITWire article highlights how VergeIO is challenging traditional enterprise infrastructure by delivering a unified private cloud operating system built on roughly 400,000 lines of code—compared to the tens of millions that power legacy virtualization stacks like VMware. Rather than layering compute, storage, networking, and data protection through multiple products, VergeIO consolidates them into a single software foundation, reducing operational complexity, hardware requirements, and integration overhead. The piece positions this architectural simplification as a strategic response to VMware disruption and growing enterprise fatigue with fragmented infrastructure.

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VergeIO Records Strongest Year to Date

Ann Arbor, Mich. — February 10, 2026 — VergeIO, the VMware alternative redefining infrastructure as a Private Cloud Operating System, recorded its strongest year to date with annual recurring revenue growing more than 80% year over year. The company exceeded its 2025 ARR plan by more than 25%, driven by increased enterprise adoption of VergeOS and a growing shift away from traditional virtualization toward cloud-style operations on customer- controlled infrastructure.

Strong Enterprise Adoption and Sales Momentum

VergeIO reached its annual sales target before the end of Q3 and closed the year with record sales volume. Growth was driven by more than 4,000 inbound verified leads and over 900 discovery calls with new prospects. The company added a record number of enterprise customers, including Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, NASA, and Dana-Farber Institute, as organizations sought a simpler and more durable alternative to VMware that supports a clear transition from virtualization to a full-on-premises private cloud operating model.

Customer Proof: Modern Private Cloud at Scale

A key enterprise win in 2025 was Topgolf, the global sports entertainment leader, which selected VergeOS to modernize its IT infrastructure across corporate offices, centralized data centers, and venue-edge locations. Using VergeOS Site Manager and Virtual Data Centers (VDCs), Topgolf operates a single private cloud control plane across geographically distributed environments.

This approach replaced a large VMware deployment on Dell VxRail with a streamlined three- node architecture at each site, reducing infrastructure complexity and standardizing operations, protection policies, and lifecycle management. By relying on VergeOS’ built-in data protection capabilities, including ioClone, ioGuardian, and ioReplicate, Topgolf eliminated third-party backup software and appliances while maintaining consistent recovery objectives across all locations.

VergeOS 2026: Private Cloud Operating System

VergeIO introduced VergeOS 2026, reinforcing its direction as a Private Cloud Operating System rather than a traditional infrastructure platform. The release delivered more than 100 new and upgraded capabilities designed to support cloud-style operations on customer- controlled infrastructure.

Key enhancements included VergeIQ for deploying private AI agents and models as local infrastructure resources; native Terraform, Packer, and Ansible support for declarative provisioning and lifecycle management; resource tagging and grouping for consistent policy enforcement; immutable snapshots to support ransomware recovery; updated Windows guest drivers; advanced alarming integrated with the task engine; and a refreshed management interface. Together, these capabilities position VergeOS as a unified operating layer coordinating compute, storage, networking, automation, and protection within a single system.

Operational Simplicity and Customer Experience

VergeIO’s focus on reliability and customer experience resulted in a third-party-verified Net Promoter Score ranking in the 95th percentile, with zero detractors. This performance was achieved while onboarding a record number of new customers without expanding the customer support organization, reflecting the operational simplicity and stability of the VergeOS architecture.

Market Awareness and Education

In 2025, VergeIO supported growth through targeted marketing initiatives, including more than a dozen educational webinars that attracted over 4,000 registrants seeking practical guidance on reducing infrastructure cost and complexity. The company also deployed a VergeOS AI agent to assist users through documentation and a dedicated Slack channel, extending product knowledge without increasing support overhead.

Executive Perspective

“2025 was a defining year for VergeIO,” said Yan Ness, CEO of VergeIO. “Our team proved that VergeOS is not just a VMware replacement, but a better way to operate private infrastructure. Customers are adopting VergeOS because it simplifies operations, scales cleanly, and removes the hidden costs of traditional virtualization stacks.”

About VergeIO

VergeIO delivers a Private Cloud Operating System that replaces the traditional hypervisor, storage array, and network stack with a single integrated codebase. VergeOS enables enterprises, cloud service providers, educational institutions, and government agencies to operate cloud-style infrastructure across data center and edge environments while reducing cost, extending hardware life, and improving operational control. For more information, visit www.verge.io.

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Independent analyst firm recognizes VergeOS as a leading virtualization platform for organizations seeking cost-effective VMware migration paths

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – February 3, 2026 – VergeIO, provider of the VergeOS Private Cloud Operating System, today announced that the Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) has named VergeOS a DCIG TOP 5 VMware Alternative in both the 2026-27 SME (Small and Mid-sized Enterprise) Edition and the 2026-27 SLED (State, Local, and Education) Edition reports.

DCIG evaluated 19 VMware alternatives across more than 425 features and options across categories such as data resilience, deployment, licensing, management, modern infrastructure, and support. VergeOS earned a TOP 5 designation in both market segments for the second year in a row.

In its analysis, DCIG noted that “VergeIO offers VergeOS, a Private Cloud OS that virtualizes servers, storage, and network in a single, software-defined platform. This approach eliminates the need to create a tiered virtualized infrastructure comprising servers, storage, and networking.” DCIG further recognized that “VergeIO also took steps to attractively price VergeOS,” licensing per server rather than per CPU or per core—an approach that permits organizations “to consider using more powerful servers to reduce both their server count and software licensing costs.”

Key Differentiators Cited by DCIG

The DCIG reports highlighted several VergeOS capabilities that distinguish it from competitive solutions:

Leverage Existing Hardware – DCIG highlighted VergeOS’ ability to repurpose existing VMware server hardware, including internal SSDs, thereby eliminating the need to purchase new infrastructure. Organizations can replace VMware, vSAN, and separate backup infrastructure in a single transition rather than performing separate migration projects for each layer. VergeIO customers often report performance improvements when running VergeOS on the same hardware previously used for VMware.

Optimal RAM Utilization – VergeOS efficiently manages memory resources across the infrastructure, enabling organizations to maximize their existing RAM investments rather than requiring additional memory to achieve comparable performance.

In-Place VMware Migration – VergeOS includes built-in VMware migration capabilities that support a node-by-node approach, preserving business continuity. Production workloads continue running while VergeOS pulls data in the background, and organizations can cut over at their discretion.

Unified Resource Optimization – VergeOS places each server’s resources into a global pool and balances workloads without requiring uniform hardware specifications. The ioOptimize feature dynamically adapts to hardware capabilities and enables organizations to cluster servers with different generations of CPUs, storage media, and networking interfaces.

Market Context

The DCIG reports note that Broadcom’s January 2026 release of VMware 9.0 eliminates vSphere Standard and Enterprise Plus licensing options, forcing organizations with existing subscriptions to migrate to VCF or VVF before licenses expire in 2027—or select a VMware alternative.

“Organizations across the SME and SLED markets face a critical decision point as Broadcom reduces VMware licensing to just two options—VCF and VVF—driving significant cost increases,” said Yan Ness, CEO of VergeIO. “This recognition from DCIG validates our approach: deliver enterprise-grade virtualization that organizations can deploy on existing hardware without the complexity and cost of traditional solutions.”

Availability

The full 2026-27 DCIG TOP 5 VMware Alternatives reports for SME and SLED editions are available for download at www.verge.io. Organizations interested in evaluating VergeOS can request a demonstration or proof of concept through the VergeIO website.

About VergeIO

VergeIO delivers VergeOS, a Private Cloud Operating System that virtualizes compute, storage, and networking in a single software-defined platform. VergeOS eliminates the need for separate infrastructure layers, enabling organizations to simplify operations, reduce costs, and extend the life of existing hardware. For more information, visit www.verge.io.

About DCIG

The Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) empowers the IT industry with actionable analysis. DCIG analysts provide informed third-party analysis of various cloud, data protection, and data storage technologies. DCIG independently develops licensed content in the form of DCIG TOP 5 Reports and Solution Profiles. For more information, visit www.dcig.com.

Media Contact:

Judy Smith, JPR Communications
[email protected]
818-522-9673

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Texas-Based Insurer Migrates Mission-Critical Applications from VxRail During Business
Hours Without Disruption


ANN ARBOR, Mich. — January 6, 2026 — VergeIO , the VMware alternative for organizations
seeking unified infrastructure, today announced that Alinsco Insurance has completed a full
migration from VMware on Dell VxRail to VergeOS across its Fort Worth headquarters and
international locations. The migration occurred during normal business hours with zero
downtime and no scheduled maintenance windows.


Alinsco Insurance, a Texas-based auto insurance company serving millions of drivers since
2003, faced an urgent infrastructure decision when Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware created
uncertainty around licensing costs and renewal timelines. After evaluating VergeOS as a
contingency plan, Alinsco made it its primary platform within weeks of initial testing.


“We made VergeOS our Plan A,” said Darrin Kirby, CIO at Alinsco Insurance. “Through testing,
we quickly realized VergeOS was the way forward.”


Zero-Downtime Migration During Business Hours
Alinsco’s IT team implemented a node-by-node migration strategy that maintained normal
business operations throughout the project. Using VergeOS’ built-in VMware migration
capabilities, the team backed up VMs to a temporary VergeOS environment, removed nodes
from VxRail one at a time, installed VergeOS on each node, and then inserted them into the
growing VergeOS cluster.


“All that was done during the day, with no maintenance window,” said Bryan Dore, Director of
IT at Alinsco. “No one even knew that it happened.”


The company continues running on its existing VxRail hardware, with third-party maintenance
from Park Place Technologies providing global coverage and 4-hour response times.
Performance on the same hardware improved noticeably after migrating to VergeOS.
“That’s a huge benefit to us—being able to keep running on this older gear, which quite frankly
runs faster with VergeOS than it did with VMware,” Kirby added. “Why do we need to upgrade
hardware?”


Reduced Costs and Simplified Operations

In addition to eliminating VMware licensing costs, Alinsco eliminated StorMagic licensing fees
at remote sites, and VergeOS networking capabilities replaced the need for separate solutions
like NSX, further reducing complexity. Alinsco implemented a multi-layered data protection strategy
using VergeOS-native snapshots and replication,
including hourly local snapshots, 45-day immutable snapshots, and 90-day cross-site
replication between Fort Worth, Texas, and Mexico.

The unified VergeOS interface streamlined daily operations. “It’s very hands-off, actually,”
Dore noted. “On a day-to-day basis, it’s very easy to perform tasks such as creating, cloning,
or recovering a virtual machine.”


Support That Sets the Standard
Alinsco ranks VergeIO as its top vendor for support quality. Response times average under 2
minutes, with escalations resolved in 1 to 2 hours. This experience contrasts with support calls
lasting over eight hours with previous vendors.


For organizations considering a similar move, Kirby offers straightforward advice: “It’s a no-
brainer. I’m not really sure what anyone would be afraid of. There is just absolutely no
downside. So what are you waiting for? You could actually do this tonight if you wanted to.”
To learn more about Alinsco’s conversion to VergeOS and other customer case studies, please
visit: https://www.verge.io/case-studies-registration-page/

About Alinsco Insurance
Alinsco Insurance is a Texas-based auto insurance company headquartered in Fort Worth.
Since 2003, the company has served millions of Texas drivers through a network of thousands
of independent insurance agents. Alinsco offers a range of auto insurance products and
operates web applications for policy management and claims processing. For more information,
visit www.alinsco.com.


About VergeIO
VergeIO is the VMware alternative for organizations seeking a simpler, unified infrastructure
platform. VergeOS replaces the traditional hypervisor, storage array, and network stack with a
single integrated codebase. Enterprises, CSPs, educational institutions, and government
agencies rely on VergeOS to reduce cost, extend hardware life, and automate operations
across their environments. For more information, visit www.verge.io.
Media Contact: Judy Smith JPR Communications 818-522-9673 [email protected]

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