The Broadcom estate on apis.io rates 11.1, emerging. It is built from 32 member profiles, of which 29 are scored, and those members hold 26 APIs. The best member is CloudHealth at 52.2. The estate’s average Agent Readiness is 6.1, minimal, and one member, CloudHealth, is agent-ready. None is agent-native. That is what a company assembled from acquisitions looks like when you score what each acquired brand still publishes.
There is also a surface the estate leaves out. The Broadcom parent profile scores 46.0 with an Agent Readiness of 44.3 on its own 3 APIs. That agent score is higher than any member’s, yet the parent is not counted in the estate’s rating. An estate that rates its root company would read differently.
What is in it
| Band | Members | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Developing | 4 | CloudHealth 52.2, VMware 51.3, Brocade 42.9, AppNeta 42.3 |
| Thin | 2 | Symantec 39.0, VMware Tanzu 33.5 |
| Emerging | 5 | Lastline 23.5, CA Technologies 19.4, Runscope 19.3, Carbon Black 19.1, Blue Coat 14.1 |
| Minimal | 18 | AVI Networks, SpringSource, Nicira, Heptio, LSI Logic and 13 more |
| Unrated | 3 | Elastica, LSI, Newport Communications |
The estate is layered. VMware, acquired in 2023, is the immediate parent of CloudHealth, Tanzu, Lastline, Carbon Black, AVI, SpringSource, Nicira, Heptio, Datrium, Octarine and Apteligent. CA Technologies brought Runscope, Arcot and Flowdock. Symantec brought Blue Coat, Brightmail and Fireglass. Of the 32 profiles, 18 score minimal, and most of those are brands absorbed so long ago that no developer surface survives.
What the estate tells you
The APIs are concentrated in a few places. CloudHealth’s 8 and CA Technologies’ 6 make up more than half of the 26. VMware, the largest acquisition in the estate, has a single API page, and that page is a collection covering vSphere, NSX and the rest of the platform. Its score of 51.3 comes from one aggregate contract rather than one contract per product line.
Being agent-ready did not survive the acquisitions. CloudHealth (38.9), AppNeta (28.1), VMware (22.9) and Symantec (20.4) are agent-aware or better. CA Technologies is at 0.6, and every member below Blue Coat is at 0.0. Runscope was an API testing company, and it now scores 2.5 on Agent Readiness.
Defects on our side
The estate overview says all 32 profiles “carry a rating”, while its own rating block counts 29 scored members and lists three as unrated. LSI appears twice, as lsi (unrated) and lsi-logic (0.0), for what is one company, and SandForce hangs off the unrated duplicate. Flowdock lists 2 APIs and scores 0.0, which needs a look. And the parent’s own score is not in the rollup.
Takeaway
What would move Broadcom’s estate is not the dead brands. It is three live ones. VMware could publish per-product contracts instead of one collection. CA Technologies’ six APIs could get the agent layer that CloudHealth already has. Symantec, at 39.0 on a single API, could publish a contract for each security product. On our side, we should merge the LSI duplicate and decide whether an estate rates its root.
See the estate at apis.io/estates/broadcom/.