Broadcom Inc. is a global infrastructure technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Its portfolio spans networking, broadband, wireless, storage, cybersecurity, private cloud, observability, and value stream management, serving complex, mission-critical environments across enterprise and service provider markets.
Built through decades of engineering investment and the integration of businesses such as Brocade, CA Technologies, Symantec’s enterprise security business, and VMware, Broadcom Inc. operates at scale across both silicon and software. It is positioned around long product cycles, deep R&D, and a focused operating model aimed at customers that need performance, resiliency, security, and continuity across core digital infrastructure.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Broadcom Inc. combines merchant silicon, custom silicon, infrastructure platforms, cybersecurity software, and enterprise operations software to support data center modernization, cloud architecture, AI infrastructure, storage networking, and secure digital operations. Its capabilities reach from switching, routing, and interconnect technologies to private cloud, endpoint and information security, network observability, and strategic portfolio management.
Its integration approach centers on hybrid and multicloud flexibility, especially around hyperscaler support for VMware environments, plus interoperability across third-party development, ITSM, collaboration, and operations tools. This enables Broadcom Inc. to address both foundational infrastructure requirements and the management, governance, and automation needs that sit above them.
Products and Services
- VMware Cloud Foundation: Private cloud platform that unifies compute, storage, networking, management, and platform services for traditional, modern, and AI applications across data centers, edge environments, and managed clouds.
- Symantec Endpoint Security Complete: Endpoint security offering that adds attack surface reduction, endpoint detection and response, threat hunting, and Active Directory defense to core endpoint protection.
- DX NetOps: Network observability and monitoring platform that brings inventory, topology, performance, fault, flow, configuration, log, and user experience data into a single NOC workflow.
- Clarity: Strategic portfolio management software for aligning investments, roadmaps, governance, financial planning, and execution visibility across enterprise initiatives.
- Rally: Enterprise agile management platform that connects portfolios, programs, and product delivery teams to business strategy with real-time execution visibility.
- Brocade Fibre Channel Networking: Storage networking portfolio of directors, switches, extension platforms, and SAN I/O modules for high-performance, secure, and continuously available Fibre Channel environments.
- Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters: Fibre Channel HBA portfolio for server and SAN connectivity, including high-speed secure adapters designed for demanding enterprise storage environments.
- StrataXGS Tomahawk switch series: Ethernet switch silicon family used to build high-density top-of-rack, aggregation, and spine systems for cloud-scale and AI-driven data center networks.
- Jericho3-AI: High-radix machine learning Ethernet switch and fabric technology for large-scale AI clusters that require high bandwidth, low latency, and efficient traffic management.
- ValueOps ConnectALL: Value stream integration and automation software that synchronizes data bi-directionally across software delivery, DevOps, ITSM, and collaboration toolchains.
- ValueOps Insights: Analytics and intelligence layer for value stream management that normalizes toolchain data into dashboards, reports, and operational insights for decision-making.
- VMware Tanzu Platform: Cloud-native application platform for building, operating, and optimizing enterprise applications in private cloud environments with stronger governance and developer productivity.
- VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA: Joint private AI solution built on VMware Cloud Foundation that combines VMware private AI capabilities with NVIDIA AI Enterprise for governed AI deployment in enterprise environments.
Target Customers
Broadcom Inc. primarily serves large enterprises, cloud and managed service providers, hyperscalers, OEMs, and other organizations operating complex, always-on infrastructure. Its buyers are typically responsible for core networking, storage, private cloud, cybersecurity, and software delivery environments where downtime, inefficiency, or weak governance carries significant operational risk.
Its software portfolio is especially relevant to CIO, infrastructure, platform engineering, security, NOC, PMO, and digital transformation leaders that need better control over mission-critical systems and investment execution. Its semiconductor and connectivity products are aimed at builders and operators of high-performance data center, AI, storage, broadband, and communications infrastructure.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Broadcom Inc. has AWS presence through VMware by Broadcom offerings in AWS Marketplace and supports VMware Cloud Foundation deployments on AWS through Amazon Elastic VMware Service and VMware Cloud on AWS.
- Azure Marketplace: Broadcom Inc. has Azure presence through Symantec cloud security offerings in Azure Marketplace and supports VMware Cloud Foundation portability and deployment on Azure VMware Solution.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Broadcom Inc. supports Google Cloud deployments through Google Cloud VMware Engine with VMware Cloud Foundation license portability, alongside cloud-hosted Broadcom software and Symantec service integrations on Google Cloud.
Key People
- Hock E. Tan: President and Chief Executive Officer
- Charlie Kawwas: President, Semiconductor Solutions Group
- Kirsten Spears: Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer
- Mark Brazeal: Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer
- Alan Davidson: Chief Information Officer
- Krish Prasad: Senior Vice President and General Manager, VMware Cloud Foundation Division
- Jason Rolleston: Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Security Group
- Umesh Mahajan: Vice President and General Manager, Application Networking and Security Division
- Jas Tremblay: Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions Group
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Employees: Approximately 33,000
- Annual Revenue: $63.9B
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: At least 10 significant subsidiaries, including Avago Technologies U.S. Inc., Broadcom Corporation, CA, Inc., VMware LLC, VMware Global, Inc., and VMware International Unlimited Company.
- Publicly Listed: NASDAQ: AVGO
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tools. Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Portfolio Management.
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave: Strategic Portfolio Management Tools, Q2 2024.
- IDC: Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Cloud Cost and Capacity Optimization Vendor Assessment.
