Virtana, provider of the deepest and broadest agentic observability platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, today announced it has been named a winner of SiliconANGLE’s 2026 TechForward Awards in the AI-Driven Cloud Infrastructure category.
“This recognition from SiliconANGLE reinforces the leadership Virtana is establishing in Agentic Observability,” said Paul Appleby, CEO of Virtana. “As AI agents take on more responsibility for operating critical systems, their effectiveness will depend on the depth and quality of the operational context behind them. Our Agentic Observability platform gives agents end-to-end understanding of how applications, cloud, infrastructure, networks, storage, Kubernetes, and AI systems interact and depend on one another. This rich context enables more intelligent reasoning across the full environment, so our agents can isolate root cause faster, determine the right action with greater precision, and continuously optimize operations.”
Enterprise technology now spans cloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, and AI environments, making legacy monitoring tools insufficient to understand and protect today’s interconnected systems. Virtana is the first and only full-stack Agentic Observability platform, turning high-fidelity operational telemetry into the system context AI agents need to reason and act. By continuously collecting and correlating over 25,000 telemetry signals across applications, infrastructure, services, and AI factories, Virtana enables AI agents to observe, reason, predict, and act, identifying root cause without forcing operators to manually correlate signals across domains, and recommending and automating governed remediation. The result is faster incident resolution, fewer business disruptions, optimized performance and cost, and greater operational resilience. Trusted by Global 2000 enterprises and public sector organizations, Virtana helps assure the availability, performance, and resilience of the high-stakes systems that power modern business.
The TechForward Awards recognize the technologies and solutions driving business forward. As the trusted voice of enterprise and emerging tech, SiliconANGLE applies a rigorous editorial lens to highlight innovations reshaping how businesses operate in our rapidly changing landscape. This awards program honors both established enterprise solutions and breakthrough technologies defining the future of business, spanning AI innovation, security excellence, cloud transformation and data platform evolution. This year’s TechForward Awards was the largest and most competitive SiliconANGLE Media Awards program to date. Virtana was selected as a winner by a panel of industry experts and technology leaders.
Virtana’s winning submission will also be featured in the SiliconANGLE TechForward Buyer’s Guide, a digital resource connecting technology buyers with recognized solutions across AI, security, cloud and data platforms, available now.
“This year’s winners truly stood out among an exceptionally strong group of entries,” said Dave Vellante, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media. “We want to extend a sincere thank-you to our panel of judges, whose rigorous evaluation process ensured that every awardee paired real innovation with measurable results. For technology leaders assessing where to deploy capital for maximum return, these companies warrant a closer look.”
Virtana serves Global 2000 enterprises running mission-critical digital services where downtime, performance degradation, or uncontrolled costs create significant business risk. The company delivers the deepest and broadest Agentic Observability platform, built on a patented, system-aware architecture that continuously models how enterprise systems operate. Unlike legacy monitoring tools that generate disconnected alerts, Virtana identifies the exact constraints driving performance, cost, and failures, providing Virtana agents with a continuously updated model of the execution system so they can reason across domains, distinguish symptoms from root cause, and determine the appropriate action. Open interfaces, including MCP, extend Virtana’s system-aware operational intelligence to external agents and LLMs, giving them richer operational context for reasoning and action, making Virtana the foundation for autonomous, AI-driven enterprise operations.
“What I find most rewarding about this program is the community forming around it, the entrants pushing each other to build better products and the judges who bring genuine expertise and attention to evaluating them,” said John Furrier, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media. “Winners become part of a community that stays active even after the announcement.”
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About Virtana
Virtana, provider of the deepest and broadest Agentic Observability Platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, delivers system-aware observability spanning applications, services, data pipelines, GPUs, CPUs, networks, and storage. Powered by high-fidelity operational data and agentic AI, Virtana provides unmatched visibility across end-to-end IT services and AI execution systems, correlating health, performance, cost, and user impact in real time. With advanced event intelligence and AI-driven reasoning, Virtana delivers clarity no other provider can match. Trusted by Global 2000 enterprises and public sector organizations, Virtana helps IT operations, Platform Engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams reduce risk, strengthen resilience, improve efficiency, and modernize with confidence across multi-cloud, on-premises, edge, and sovereign environments.
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