Virtualization pressure is forcing enterprises to rethink their IT strategies. But @HPE’s SVP and GM of Cloud Platform, Varma Kunaparaju, sees an opportunity beyond simply migrating workloads. He tells @PatrickMoorhead and @danielnewmanUV why cloud-native AI demands a new approach to application runtimes, modernization, and operations. $HPE

“Virtual machines are like cities — once they reach critical mass, they become magnets that are incredibly hard to displace.” @dikshananduri catches up with @jayendra_jog, Co-Founder of @SeiNetwork, to unpack this idea at a deeper level — why systems with flaws can still dominate simply because that’s where the activity, liquidity, and people already are. From New York and San Francisco to onchain environments like the EVM, they explore how network effects compound over time, why newer ecosystems struggle to pull users away even with better tech, and what it actually takes to break that inertia.