API Evangelist area
Virtualization
39 related providers on APIs.io
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Virtualization is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at virtualization.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Cisco Intersight, VMware, Nutanix, Slide, Smol Machines, Oxide, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Migration, Management, Orchestration, and SaaS Management. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
An index and topic collection covering virtualization across two intertwined domains: machine virtualization (hypervisors, virtual machines, VDI, and cloud VM platforms) and…
Related providers (39)
Top 30 of 39 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco Intersight | Cisco Intersight is Cisco's SaaS operations platform for UCS servers, HyperFlex clusters, Nexus fabrics, third-party storage and virtualization, covering provisioning, firmware ... | 11 | strong |
| VMware | Collection of VMware APIs for cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and management solutions including vSphere, NSX, vCloud Director, Tanzu, and Aria operations. | 1 | strong |
| Nutanix | Nutanix is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that integrates compute, virtualization, storage, networking, and security to power enterprise applications. Nutanix provide... | 2 | developing |
| Slide | Slide is a modern, security-first Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) platform built exclusively for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Founded by Datto creator Aust... | 1 | developing |
| Smol Machines | Smol Machines (smol machines, inc.) is a Y Combinator-backed developer infrastructure company building portable, self-contained Linux microVMs. Its open-source `smolvm` engine a... | 2 | developing |
| Oxide | Oxide Computer Company builds a rack-scale cloud computer: integrated server sleds (Gimlet), a rack-level switch (Sidecar), Oxide's own illumos distribution (Helios), the Propol... | 1 | developing |
| KubeVirt | KubeVirt is a CNCF incubating project that extends Kubernetes to run traditional virtual machines alongside containers. It allows users to create, manage, and run VMs using the ... | 2 | developing |
| Incus | Incus is a modern open source system container and virtual machine manager maintained by LinuxContainers.org as a community-led fork of Canonical's LXD. It provides a unified ex... | 1 | developing |
| Citrix | Citrix is a global software company providing virtualization, networking, workspace, and digital experience products that allow organizations to deliver applications and desktop... | 6 | developing |
| Vagrant | Vagrant, by HashiCorp, is a tool for building and managing virtualized development environments. Their developer platform provides APIs and SDKs for interacting with Vagrant Clo... | 2 | developing |
| Vers | Vers is "git for running compute" — a branchable microVM platform from HD Research (hdresearch) that lets you fork a live virtual machine (memory, processes, sockets and all) in... | 1 | developing |
| Solaris Zones | API for managing Solaris Zones (containers) and virtualization on Oracle Solaris systems. | 9 | thin |
| OpenStack | Open source cloud computing platform for building and managing public and private clouds, providing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) through a set of interrelated services inc... | 2 | thin |
| Veritas InfoScale | APIs for Veritas InfoScale, an enterprise storage and availability management solution that provides high availability, disaster recovery, and storage management capabilities ac... | 13 | thin |
| Apache CloudStack | Apache CloudStack is an open-source cloud computing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. It ... | 4 | thin |
| Firecracker | Firecracker is an open source virtual machine monitor (VMM) built by Amazon Web Services that uses KVM to create and manage lightweight microVMs. Designed for serverless computi... | 1 | thin |
| Platform9 | Platform9 is an enterprise private cloud company whose flagship Private Cloud Director is a full-featured VMware alternative for running virtual machines and containers on your ... | 1 | thin |
| Scale Computing | Scale Computing builds SC//Platform, an edge-computing and hyperconverged infrastructure stack made up of SC//HyperCore (a self-healing KVM-based virtualization and storage OS t... | 4 | thin |
| Google Cloud VMware Engine | Google Cloud VMware Engine is a fully managed service that lets you run VMware workloads natively on Google Cloud infrastructure. It provides dedicated, single-tenant VMware SDD... | 1 | thin |
| Broadcom | Broadcom is a global technology company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of semiconductors and other hardware components for a wide range of industries. They pro... | 3 | thin |
| Hypori | Hypori, Inc. is a Reston, Virginia headquartered, service-disabled veteran-owned software company that builds Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) for zero-trust mobile access. I... | 1 | thin |
| SimpliVity | SimpliVity is the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) pioneer acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017 and now shipped as HPE SimpliVity. Its data virtualization platform ... | 1 | thin |
| Parallels (SWSoft) | Parallels is a virtualization and remote-access software company, originally founded as SWSoft in 1999 and renamed Parallels in 2008 (now part of Alludo/Corel). Its flagship ent... | 1 | thin |
| Parallels | Parallels is a virtualization and remote-access software company (part of Alludo, with the Parallels virtualization division held by KKR) best known for Parallels Desktop for Ma... | 1 | thin |
| NanoVMs | NanoVMs builds unikernel infrastructure that lets developers run a single application as its own lightweight, secure virtual machine with no operating system and no devops. Its ... | 0 | thin |
| Proxmox VE | Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) is an open-source server virtualization platform that combines KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networkin... | 1 | emerging |
| Tintri | Tintri, now part of DDN, builds intelligent enterprise data-management and storage infrastructure: the VMstore virtualization-aware storage platform, the Tintri Cloud Platform (... | 1 | emerging |
| Green Hills Software | Green Hills Software is a privately held embedded software company founded in 1982 by Dan O'Dowd and Carl Rosenberg and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. It builds saf... | 0 | emerging |
| Kerys | Kerys Software is a European (Palaiseau, France) cybersecurity company behind YS::Desktop, a Type 1 hypervisor that runs multiple fully isolated environments on a single worksta... | 0 | emerging |
| Unidesk | Unidesk was a Marlborough, Massachusetts software company backed by Matrix Partners that pioneered application layering for virtual desktop infrastructure, packaging Windows app... | 0 | minimal |
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 30 providers in the APIs.io catalog working in Virtualization, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
30
all scored
Mean Kin Score
35.4
+11.6 vs catalog 23.8
Mean Agent Readiness
18
+6.4 vs catalog 11.6
Spread
6.4–55.8
median 37.8 · σ 11.6
How the 30 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 9Thin 14Emerging 4Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 46.4 | 23.3 | +23.1 | 30 |
| Contract Quality | 36.5 | 19.8 | +16.7 | 30 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.7 | 13.9 | +7.8 | 30 |
| Discoverability | 67.7 | 61 | +6.7 | 30 |
| Contract Governance | 8.9 | 6.3 | +2.6 | 30 |
| Access Clarity | 26.5 | 26.3 | +0.2 | 30 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 10% | 10% | 0 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 7% | 9% | -2 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 10% | 11% | -1 |
| Security | 97% | 97% | 0 |
| Arazzo workflows | 0% | 2% | -2 |
| Governance rules | 40% | 14% | +26 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 Cisco Intersight 55.8
- 2 VMware 54.3
- 3 Nutanix 47.9
- 4 Slide 47.4
- 5 Smol Machines 46
- 6 Oxide 45.8
- 7 KubeVirt 44.5
- 8 Incus 43.6
- 9 Citrix 42.7
- 10 Vagrant 41
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Scale Computing 35.4
- 2 Cisco Intersight 33.6
- 3 Solaris Zones 32.3
- 4 Vers 30.5
- 5 Incus 26.5
- 6 Oxide 26.1
- 7 SimpliVity 25.3
- 8 VMware 24.8
- 9 Apache CloudStack 24.8
- 10 Google Cloud VMware Engine 24.8
All 30 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
9 September 2026, across 27528
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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