Broadcom slammed by cloud trade group amid claims it’s “holding the sector to ransom” with VMware license changes

A European cloud trade body has called for an investigation Broadcom amid concerns over changes it has made to VMware licensing structures.

The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium called on regulatory and legislative bodies across Europe to investigate the changes Broadcom has made to the VMware operating model, which it says will “decimate” the region’s cloud infrastructure.