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A Better Alternative to VMware.

Cycle's modern approach simplifies operations, reduces costs, and runs more efficiently. Unlike VMware, Cycle strips away hypervisor overhead and licensing sprawl, giving you one lightweight control plane that deploys anywhere with zero extra moving parts.

Simplify Your Stack

Legacy hypervisors were designed for a different era, when complexity was the cost of control. Cycle gives you the same control with far less baggage: lower licensing costs, fewer moving parts, and a single platform that adapts to your infrastructure, not the other way around.

Lower Cost of Ownership

Ditch expensive licensing and consolidation tools. Cycle streamlines your stack, reducing overhead and cutting costs without compromising performance.

Deploy Anywhere

Run on bare metal, in the cloud, hybrid, or fully on-prem. Cycle is flexible enough to handle any x86 compute.

Fewer Moving Parts

With Cycle, there's no need for ESXi, vSphere, vCenter, or third-party orchestration. One platform handles it all—faster, leaner, and without vendor lock-in.

This is fantastic! In a market rattled by uncertainty after the Broadcom-VMware shakeup, this is exactly the kind of bold move the industry needed. While others scramble to make sense of licensing changes and platform overhauls, Cycle.io is stepping up; not just with tech, but with timing. This release couldn’t have landed at a better moment. Cycle.io is now positioned to carve off serious VMware market share and do it by offering something cleaner, faster, and refreshingly vendor agnostic. 

Jeremy Dibert

Jeremy Dibert, Platform Services Manager @ Nielsen

Painless Updates

Every two weeks, Cycle delivers platform, OS, and kernel updates across your infrastructure -- all without downtime. These updates support new features, performance improvements, and critical patches, ensuring your environment evolves without interrupting your workloads.

Hardware Agnostic

Manage infrastructure in the cloud, on-prem, or both. Cycle makes hybrid infrastructure feel native, wherever your workloads live.

Automatic Load Balancing

Cycle automatically generates TCP, UDP, and HTTP(S) load-balancing routes based on how your containers are defined. As workloads change, the platform keeps routing up to date—no external tooling or per-env config.

Load balancer configuration

Integrated WAF

Protect services with built-in web-application firewall capabilities. Configure rules at the platform level to block unwanted traffic before it reaches your workloads.

L2 Domains

Bridge containers and VMs directly onto VLAN-backed Layer 2 networks. Expose workloads on the same subnet as your physical hosts whenever needed.

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