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Alternatives to Broadcom

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If you're comparing Broadcom with other companies in Hybrid & Multicloud, Containers & Kubernetes and Networking, start here. These are the 46 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.

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Hybrid & Multicloud: Broadcom's main category

19 companies sit alongside Broadcom here, busiest first.

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  • Amazon Web Services#8 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…

    • 190 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Google Cloud#7 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…

    • 82 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Red Hat#2 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible…

    • 64 stories in the last 90 days
    • 1 published review

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  • Cisco#11 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking…

    • 50 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Dell Technologies#6 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services…

    • 48 stories in the last 90 days
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  • HPE#1 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…

    • 33 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Microsoft#3 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…

    • 20 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Lenovo#13 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers…

    • 37 stories in the last 90 days
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  • SUSE#19 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform…

    • 16 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Equinix#14 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data…

    • 20 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Flexera#18 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Flexera is a US software company that helps organisations manage and optimise technology spend across software licences, SaaS and public cloud. Its Flexera One platform covers IT…

    • 18 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Canonical#20 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells…

    • 17 stories in the last 90 days

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  • HashiCorp#15 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and…

    • 18 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Nutanix#5 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage…

    • 25 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Rackspace Technology#16 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS…

    • 11 stories in the last 90 days
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  • IBM#9 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…

    Evidence is still building for IBM.

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  • Kyndryl#17 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company that designs, runs and modernises mission-critical systems for large enterprises, covering cloud, applications, data and AI…

    Evidence is still building for Kyndryl.

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  • NetApp#12 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS…

    Evidence is still building for NetApp.

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  • Oracle#10 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…

    Evidence is still building for Oracle.

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Containers & Kubernetes

10 companies sit alongside Broadcom here, busiest first. 9 others are listed in an earlier section.

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  • Solo.io#17 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Solo.io is a cloud-native application networking company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. It sells Gloo Gateway, an Envoy-based API…

    • 55 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Docker#9 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Docker, Inc. is the company behind Docker, the software that popularised Linux containers for packaging and running applications. Founded as dotCloud by Solomon Hykes and launched…

    • 15 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Sysdig#19 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Sysdig is a US cloud and container security company founded in 2013 by Loris Degioanni, co-creator of Wireshark. Its Sysdig Secure platform provides cloud-native application…

    • 26 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Tigera#18 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Tigera is a US Kubernetes networking and security company founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco. It is the creator and maintainer of Project Calico, a widely used open source…

    • 18 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Spectro Cloud#14 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Spectro Cloud is a US Kubernetes management company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Palette platform manages the full lifecycle of Kubernetes…

    • 17 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Mirantis#7 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Mirantis is a cloud-native infrastructure company offering Kubernetes and container platforms, OpenStack and open-source tooling, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis…

    • 10 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Platform9#13 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Platform9 is a cloud infrastructure software company that provides private cloud and Kubernetes management delivered as a SaaS-managed service. Its products include Private Cloud…

    • 4 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Aqua Security#20 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Aqua Security is a cloud native security company founded in Israel in 2015. It provides a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) covering container, Kubernetes and…

    Evidence is still building for Aqua Security.

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  • Portainer#16 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Portainer is a container management platform from Portainer.io, a company based in Auckland, New Zealand. Its graphical and API-driven tooling lets teams deploy, operate and…

    • 20 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Rafay#15 leader in Containers & Kubernetes

    Rafay is a US software company, formally Rafay Systems, that sells a platform for operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure at scale. Its platform-as-a-service offering…

    Evidence is still building for Rafay.

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Networking

17 companies sit alongside Broadcom here, busiest first. 2 others are listed in an earlier section.

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  • Cloudflare#11 leader in Networking

    Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…

    • 85 stories in the last 90 days
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  • NVIDIA#18 leader in Networking

    NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…

    • 55 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Akamai#12 leader in Networking

    Akamai Technologies is a US content delivery, cybersecurity and cloud computing company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It operates one of the…

    • 37 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Megaport#17 leader in Networking

    Megaport is a Network as a Service (NaaS) provider that offers on-demand, software-defined connectivity between data centres, public clouds and enterprise locations. Its portfolio…

    • 23 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Infoblox#15 leader in Networking

    Infoblox is a US networking and security company specialising in DDI, the combination of DNS, DHCP and IP address management, and DNS-based security. Its products include NIOS…

    • 16 stories in the last 90 days
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  • F5#9 leader in Networking

    F5 is an American application delivery and security company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It provides load balancing, web application and API…

    • 6 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Cato Networks#13 leader in Networking

    Cato Networks is an Israeli networking and security company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells the Cato SASE Cloud platform…

    • 7 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Arista Networks#3 leader in Networking

    Arista Networks is a US networking company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It sells high-speed Ethernet switches and routers running its EOS…

    Evidence is still building for Arista Networks.

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  • Aviatrix#16 leader in Networking

    Aviatrix is a US cloud networking and network security company founded in 2014. Its platform provides multicloud networking, cloud firewalling and egress security, and network…

    Evidence is still building for Aviatrix.

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  • Ciena#8 leader in Networking

    Ciena is a US networking systems and software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. It sells optical networking equipment including WaveLogic coherent…

    Evidence is still building for Ciena.

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  • Ericsson#5 leader in Networking

    Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications equipment and services company founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and headquartered in Stockholm. It supplies mobile network…

    Evidence is still building for Ericsson.

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  • Extreme Networks#7 leader in Networking

    Extreme Networks is an American networking company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. It provides enterprise wired and wireless networking…

    Evidence is still building for Extreme Networks.

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  • Fortinet#10 leader in Networking

    Fortinet is a US cybersecurity company known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls, built on its FortiOS operating system and custom security processors. Its Fortinet…

    Evidence is still building for Fortinet.

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  • Huawei#6 leader in Networking

    Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its…

    Evidence is still building for Huawei.

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  • Nokia#4 leader in Networking

    Nokia is a Finnish telecommunications equipment and technology company that supplies mobile, IP, optical and fixed network infrastructure to communications service providers and…

    Evidence is still building for Nokia.

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  • Ubiquiti#14 leader in Networking

    Ubiquiti is a US networking technology company founded in 2003 by Robert Pera and headquartered in New York City. It designs networking hardware and software under the UniFi brand…

    Evidence is still building for Ubiquiti.

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  • Versa Networks#20 leader in Networking

    Versa Networks is a US networking and security company founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells VersaONE, a universal SASE platform that combines…

    Evidence is still building for Versa Networks.

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How this list is put together

Every company here shares at least one category with Broadcom. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Broadcom's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.

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