Kit Colbert, former CTO of VMware, has invested in VergeIO and joined its Board of Directors. After two decades at VMware—including four years as CTO leading 2,400 engineers—Colbert backs VergeOS, a Private Cloud Operating System that replaces the four-vendor virtualization stack (hypervisor, storage, networking, management)…
SDxCentral flags VMware CTO Kit Colbert—who spent over two decades at VMware leading projects like vMotion and the Cloud-Native Apps unit (later Tanzu) before becoming CTO in 2021 and departing after Broadcom’s acquisition in 2024—has invested in and joined the board of VergeIO, a company…
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…
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…
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…
DCIG highlights a key but often overlooked benefit of choosing the right VMware vSphere alternative: extending the useful life of existing server hardware. The analysis points to VergeOS’s infrastructure operating system architecture as a differentiator, reducing software overhead and allowing organizations to repurpose and operate…
