Off-Prem
LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it’ll cost
VMware is still able to keep some corporate customers onside – it has signed a five-year agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) for its Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud platform.
According to Broadcom, LSEG has used VMware across
parts of its infrastructure for more than a decade, and the latest purchase centers
on deploying VCF to support the stock exchange operator’s private cloud.
Broadcom will also provide professional services to
roll out VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 across the organization’s IT estate as
part of the contract.
The Register asked how much this new agreement is worth, but LSEG declined to disclose figures.
This is a pertinent question, as many customers of VMware’s cloud
and virtualization software complain that licensing costs have risen significantly since Broadcom paid $61…
