After a few short years of sweeping change following Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware, the enterprise technology market is still feeling the effects. The semiconductor giant’s 2023 ...
The European cloud service providers’ association also warned all is not well in its drive to get Microsoft to level the software licensing playing field. The European Cloud Competition Observatory ...
Google Cloud late last week released a VMware “reminder” tied to Broadcom’s impending license portability changes that are set to impact the use of VMware’s Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform running in ...
The plan and tone mirror that of what Broadcom did last year for its Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Japan regions. That program ...
When Broadcom acquired VMware two years ago, many longtime VMware users were thrown into uncertainty. The most jarring change ...
Broadcom has upped VMware licensing costs by between eight to 15 times since it took over the organization, and a lack of alternatives in the tech industry means trade and end customers have no choice ...
Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, Ars Technica has confirmed. Some customers have opted to continue using VMware ...
A trade association that represents cloud providers in the European Union has filed suit over Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of VMware. The group, CISPE, disclosed the move today. It submitted the ...
The ever-so-popular Broadcom has attempted to make itself even more popular with its VMWare perpetual license holders by firing off cease-and-desist letters demanding they yank any updates installed ...
‘[Broadcom is] focused on their largest customers, and inevitably, probably their most profitable customers. They’ve done things like raise the minimum license count. And their argument has been, ...
Organisations using VMware now have no choice but to buy an annual subscription for a bundled product if they plan to continue using the hypervisor. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, ...