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.