Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls Broadcom investigation

Lobby group CISPE – a collective representing Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe – has called for regulators to investigate VMware by Broadcom’s software licensing arrangements, which it claims will bankrupt some of its members and hurt end-users.

The group on Tuesday objected to what it described as Broadcom “unilaterally cancelling license terms for essential virtualization software.”

“Cloud customers, including public sector bodies, large European businesses, SMEs and start-ups…