THE NEW ECONOMICS OF AI AND CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE: EFFICIENCY BUILT FOR PROFIT

AI demand is exploding, but the economic pressure extends across the entire cloud market. Hardware costs are rising, VMware pricing is forcing providers to rethink their stacks, hyperscaler economics are squeezing margins, and fragmented infrastructure continues to waste capacity, time and money.

Kurt Daniel, CEO of Virtuozzo, and Steve Brining, Cybersecurity Evangelist at Acronis, discuss what separates providers who profit from this market from those who simply absorb its costs.

They’ll get specific about what infrastructure efficiency really means and how to measure it in TCO, cash preservation and EBITDA. The conversation will also cover the shift away from VMware, real-world results including GPU-as-a-Service launched in weeks and generating up to 8x more revenue from the same servers, and whether cyber resilience and AI controls are keeping pace.