We are excited to announce that VMware Avi Load Balancer is the winner for the SiliconANGLE Media’s 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards in the Most Innovative Cloud Application Modernization Platform category.
Brought to you by theCUBE, these awards are designed to recognize the world’s most forward-thinking companies and their breakthrough technologies. Out of a highly competitive pool of nominees, our innovations and leadership in software-defined load balancing stood out to a panel of industry experts and tech leaders.
Why This Matters
Innovation isn’t just about vision; it’s about execution and impact. For us, winning this award represents years of rigorous testing, enterprise deployment rollouts, and a relentless focus on establishing Avi as a leader in intelligent, secure, and elastic load balancing for both VM, Kubernetes, and AI applications. What began as the industry’s first (and only) software-defined load balancer, has now evolved into an AI-defined platform built for the demands of modern, high-performance applications for the AI era.
“We are excited to be recognized by theCUBE. This award is a testament to our team’s hard work and our commitment to delivering load balancing at the speed of applications, meeting the resilience and web application security needs of today and tomorrow’s workloads.” Says Umesh Mahajan, General Manager, Application Networking and Security Division, VMware by Broadcom.
A Word from the Visionaries
The Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards are overseen by some of the most respected voices in tech media. John Furrier, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media, noted the significance of this year’s winners:
“What stood out this year was the combination of technical excellence and business impact,” said John Furrier, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media. “The 2026 winners are companies, teams and individuals who look beyond hype and focus on building the platforms, products and leadership models that customers rely on.”
Winners were announced on February 24, 2026, following a competitive review process by top tier industry analysts and experts.
About VMware Avi Load Balancer
VMware Avi Load Balancer is the industry’s first and only software-defined platform for local and global load balancer, Kubernetes & container ingress / Gateway API, web application & API protection and application analytics. Avi delivers load balancing at the speed of applications, offering plug-and-play, as-code and self-service experience in the VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud environments for large enterprises. Avi helps customers achieve ~2x less hardware to manage, virtual services in minutes and rapid application issue resolution with a unified, elastic and resilient platform. IDC Business Study shows 90% faster to deploy, 43% lower OpEx and 27% higher developer productivity after deploying Avi.
About SiliconANGLE Media
SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, bringing together cutting-edge technology, influential content, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios — such as those established in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — SiliconANGLE Media transforms the way technology companies connect with their target markets. Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a powerful ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands, with a reach of 15+ million elite tech professionals, 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni, 4+ million SiliconANGLE readers and 250,000+ social media subscribers. The company’s new, proprietary theCUBE AI LLM is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging CUBE365’s neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.
For more information about the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards and the full list of 2026 winners, visit https://www.thecube.net/awards.
