https://ax-onn.com/en/blog Product news and engineering insights from AXONN Vantis. en https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/cow https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/cow Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Storage One of the keys to starting dozens of agents in milliseconds lies in the storage layer. We dissect the dm-snapshot-based copy-on-write design that lets dozens of MicroVMs behave as though each had its own disk — without ever copying the golden image once — following the storage architecture diagram. https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/nested-virt https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/nested-virt Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Compute Vantisso needs access to the CPU's hardware virtualization features in order to start a MicroVM. So what happens on a cloud instance, which is already a virtual machine itself? We look at how nested virtualization works, the performance trade-off it carries, where each major cloud stands today, and what to check before you deploy. https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/vantisso-trial-launch https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/vantisso-trial-launch Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product We're releasing the first Trial of Vantisso, our agent execution platform. Install it from a prebuilt package and run every feature, unrestricted, for 30 days from first run. https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/microvm https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/microvm Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Compute Where Kata Containers set out to keep compatibility while gaining isolation, Firecracker starts from the opposite end. We look at the design philosophy that strips away every compatibility layer, the internals that follow from it, and the startup performance it delivers — under 200 ms for a snapshot restore, 2 ms from a warm pool. https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/katac https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/katac Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Compute Kata Containers was the industry's first serious attempt to combine the agility of containers with the isolation of virtual machines. We look at how the architecture works — a container to the user, a virtual machine underneath — and what to consider when using it as an execution environment for ephemeral AI agents. https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/kvm-hav https://ax-onn.com/en/blog/kvm-hav Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Compute Vantisso's MicroVMs boot in milliseconds and isolate at the hardware level, and that is not magic. The virtualization extensions built into the CPU (VT-x/AMD-V) and Linux KVM are the foundation. Here is a concise summary of what matters most about KVM.