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title: "Your VMs Are the Load-Bearing Walls in Your Estate"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-vms-are-the-load-bearing-walls-in-your-estate-qirzjstmb
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type: article
source: "Cloud Native Now"
published: 2026-03-20T18:00:51.969Z
updated: 2026-03-20T18:01:12.713Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "infrastructure", "containers", "vmware"]
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# Your VMs Are the Load-Bearing Walls in Your Estate

**[Cloud Native Now](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudnativenow)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Enterprise compute still heavily relies on virtual machines, not as legacy systems awaiting replacement, but as deliberate, irreplaceable infrastructure. VMs provide strong security isolation (no shared kernel), resource efficiency, and service continuity that containers cannot replicate. The real conversation is not VMs vs. containers but how to manage both together. VMware's VCF and Tanzu are highlighted as examples of platforms designed for this hybrid reality. Roughly 70% of enterprise workloads remain non-containerized, and organizations that build integrated approaches to orchestrating both VMs and containers will be best positioned going forward.

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Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#containers](https://daily.dev/tags/containers), [#vmware](https://daily.dev/tags/vmware)

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