The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. A new trend — devirtualization, a process of migrating workloads from virtual to physical environments — is taking shape as a response to these changes, according to Gartner’s 2024 Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies report. “On-premises virtualized large complex workloads with more marginal consolidation benefits are being considered to rehost on physical …