By Ry Crozier Virtified's take: Such a massive VMware migration will take sheer grit and determination. (Financial) success would only come by getting the migration done within the timeframe of current license agreement (and subsequent audit). Technical success will be even more challenging. [The Australian Department of] Defence is actively reducing its use of VMware under a "mandate" issued in the lead-up to the department's licensing costs being doubled. Read the full arti
In this edition of Virtified's Tech Digest, we see multiple security announcements—for both traditional hypervisor environments and for agentic infrastructure. Virtified expects microVMs to become a hot topic in AI infrastructure and recent announcements from Google and Microsoft showcase this. From Virtified Analysing the analyst's analysis: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualisation Platforms 15 September 2026 | Michael Warrilow | Virtified Michael Warrilow critiques
Editor's note: the following is provided as background on how Google has engineered its infrastructure to cope with massive volumes of agentic workloads. Virtified's take: We see this as an example of how microVM adoption will accelerate across training and inference infrastructure during 2027. Across Google, AI agents are writing and executing code, running tools, driving browsers, orchestrating enterprise workflows, and iterating on software repositories. In a remarkably sh
