en.Wedoany.com Reported - VergeIO, a VMware competitor, has secured an investment from former VMware Chief Technology Officer Kit Colbert, who has joined the board of directors of this private cloud operating system company.

Colbert left VMware in 2024 after more than two decades at the company, subsequently taking on multiple advisory roles and serving as Platform CTO at AI startup Invisible. He noted that his experience at VMware demonstrated that the winners in private infrastructure are products that tightly integrate compute, storage, networking, and management. VergeIO has built a private cloud operating system from the ground up, with an architecture spanning from data centers to the edge, covering traditional workloads to container-based and AI applications, and is already production-ready.

Colbert joined VMware in the early 2000s, serving as the technical lead for vMotion and Storage vMotion before heading the Cloud-Native Applications business unit (which later evolved into Tanzu), and was appointed CTO in 2021. After Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, he took a brief break and invested in early-stage startups such as Avtal, DataKinetic, and ZBiotics, while also serving as an advisor to companies including SUSE, Terizza, and Apexti.

This investment comes as some VMware customers seek alternatives due to rising costs, licensing changes, and unilateral contract modifications. VergeIO positions itself as an integrated virtualization alternative, with its VergeOS private cloud operating system using a single codebase that natively integrates virtualization, storage, networking, and tenant management. Several VMware customers, including golf entertainment company Topgolf, managed service provider NETdepot, and Alinsco Insurance, have already migrated to the platform.

Greg Campbell, CTO and founder of VergeIO, stated that Colbert helped define the modern virtualization era, and his joining the board validates the company's commitment to customers: the way to escape the hypervisor tax is not a cheaper hypervisor, but a private cloud operating system.

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