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Cisco is preparing to release NFVIS-for-UC, a lightweight hypervisor designed specifically for its Unified Communications applications. The move provides an alternative to VMware's expensive Cloud Foundation bundle, which Broadcom now pushes instead of lower-end vSphere offerings. The product-specific hypervisor will only support Cisco's calling applications and is expected to launch in Q1 2026, offering organizations running Cisco UC apps an off-ramp from VMware's increasingly costly virtualization platform.

Cisco set to release hypervisor as VMware alternative