Recognized for Unmatched Breadth and Depth That Fuel Agentic AI Across the Modern Enterprise
PALO ALTO, CA — January 14, 2026 — Virtana, provider of the world’s deepest and broadest AI-powered observability platform, today announced it has been named Best Hybrid Cloud Solution by The Cloud Awards—reinforcing that in an era of autonomous, AI-driven operations, legacy, fragmented observability tools are no longer viable.
“Virtana stood out for delivering true hybrid cloud observability across infrastructure, services, and AI workloads,” said Annabelle Whittall, COO of The Cloud Awards. “The platform’s ability to correlate performance, cost, and risk in real time reflects the realities enterprises face in modern hybrid environments. The judges recognized Virtana as a platform purpose-built for hybrid complexity—making it a standout winner at The Cloud Awards.”
Virtana delivers deep, full-stack observability across applications, infrastructure, services, and AI workloads, unifying telemetry, topology, performance, and cost into a single operating model. This platform-level approach replaces siloed dashboards with shared context so teams can see what is actually driving issues, understand downstream impact, and tie operational decisions directly to business outcomes, while agentic AI continuously reasons over that unified model to recommend and execute the right actions in real time within defined guardrails.
“We’re honored to receive this award from practitioners operating complex hybrid enterprise environments every day,” said Paul Appleby, CEO of Virtana. “Operations now span on-premises and cloud across every layer of IT and the business. Fragmented, legacy monitoring was never built for this level of complexity. Depth and breadth are non-negotiable. Only unified, AI-driven observability with autonomous agents can continuously understand the full stack and take action fast enough to prevent failures that erode trust and brand equity.”
The Cloud Awards program recognizes excellence in cloud computing worldwide and is judged by a panel of industry practitioners. Read more about the award in a blog by Virtana’s Chief Product Officer, Amit Rathi.
To learn how Virtana helps organizations replace reactive firefighting with unified, AI-powered observability—or to request a demo—visit virtana.com.
About Virtana
Virtana delivers the deepest and broadest observability platform for hybrid and multi-cloud, with full-stack AI observability spanning applications, services, data pipelines, GPUs, CPUs, networks, and storage. Powered by high-fidelity data and agentic AI, Virtana provides unmatched visibility across end-to-end IT services and AI workloads, correlating health, performance, cost, and user impact in real time. With advanced event intelligence and autonomous insight generation, Virtana delivers clarity no other provider can match. Trusted by Global 2000 enterprises and public sector organizations, Virtana helps IT operations and DevOps teams reduce risk, strengthen resilience, improve efficiency, and modernize with confidence across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Learn more at virtana.com.
About the Cloud Awards
The Cloud Awards is an international program which has been recognizing and honoring industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in cloud computing since 2011. The Cloud Awards comprises five awards programs, each uniquely celebrating success across cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud security, artificial intelligence (AI), and financial technologies (FinTech). Winners are selected by a judging panel of international industry experts. For more information about the Cloud Awards, please visit www.cloud-awards.com.
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