Why The Future Of The Datacenter Is The Infrastructure Operating System
The Register, Thursday, November 6th, 2025
From bolt-on chaos to built-in AI: Infrastructure with no assembly required
Enterprise infrastructure is at a crossroads. Organizations face simultaneous pressure to reduce costs, defend against ransomware, and deploy AI-driven capabilities, all while maintaining decades of layered, multi-vendor technologies. The traditional "stacked" approach to infrastructure - one product for virtualization, another for storage, another for networking - has reached the end of its life cycle.
The solution is not just another incremental upgrade or a hypervisor swap. It's an altogether new way of thinking: an Infrastructure Operating System (Infrastructure OS).