Michael Warrilow

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Join date: Jul 25, 2025

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Michael Warrilow is the creator of Virtified. He is building his vision of an open community of technology professionals who leverage shared experiences to accelerate emerging technology best practices.

Michael has deep expertise in a range of foundational IT infrastructure including virtualisation, containers, operating systems and cloud. During the last three decades he has worked as practitioner, vendor and industry analyst. He has a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), a certificate in management and a graduate certificate in writing.

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Dec 31, 2025 ∙ 2 min

2025 was a wasted year (for enterprise virtualisation)

Migrate from VMware...or don't. Either way, incorporate on-premises infrastructure into your 2026 plans. You can tap into bigger budgets and accelerate reduction of legacy.

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Dec 17, 2025 ∙ 3 min

Get off the AI cloud?

Virtified's MacBook might be good enough. Stanford researchers dropped a research paper in mid-November that challenges the cloud-centric delivery model of AI inference due to the following factors. Here's my bottom line: The "Intelligence Per Watt" framework shows that appropriate AI models running on consumer devices are becoming viable for the majority of everyday queries.

Oct 27, 2025 ∙ 2 min

Stateful containers are a symptom of complexity (and architectural insanity)

Don't reinvent the wheel. Don't use containers and Kubernetes for stateful workloads unless you have solid business justification.