By Solomon Klappholz

Broadcom has drawn the ire of the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) over changes made to VMware licenses, with the trade group warning its activities could “decimate” EU markets

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

The 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.

“CISPE calls upon regulators, legislators and courts across Europe to swiftly scrutinize the actions of Broadcom in unilaterally canceling license terms for essential virtualisation software,” the trade body said in a statement.

Since acquiring VMware in November 2023, Broadcom has embarked on a comprehensive overhaul of software licensing at the firm, which has drawn widespread criticism from customers.