A group of 27 cloud service providers in Europe, including Amazon Web Services, have reached an agreement to settle a complaint they filed against Microsoft for alleged anti-competitive behavior. The complaint focused on the higher cost of acquiring and running Microsoft software on non-Azure clouds and the need for technical adjustments to run some programs … Read more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that 113 of its services are now certified compliant with the Data Protection Code of Conduct for Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE). This certification aligns with European Union regulations and demonstrates AWS’s commitment to meeting the highest data protection standards for cloud service providers. The CISPE Code … Read more
CISPE and Broadcom remain at odds over the latter’s changes to VMware, and now the European Commission is getting more involved. Source link
Broadcom is drawing harsh condemnation from CISPE, the European cloud organization, is calling out Broadcom for “brutal” tactics in regard to VMware licensing. Broadcom purchased VMware, the leader in virtualization technology, sparking a great deal of concern among customers and industry experts alike. It appears those concerns were well-founded, with CISPE accusing Broadcom of ‘unilaterally … Read more
VMWare take over will decimate the cloud infrastructure A European cloud trade organisation has urged an inquiry into Broadcom due to concerns about alterations to VMware’s licensing arrangements. The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium has appealed to regulatory and legislative authorities throughout Europe to examine Broadcom’s modifications to VMware’s operational model, which … Read more
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 … Read more