Critics dismiss Broadcom’s ‘anti-cloud’ licencing changes for VMware

博通 ’s efforts to allay concerns over its recent changes to VMware ’s cloud licencing practices have hit a roadblock.

Critics, including the CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe) trade group, are rejecting the adjustments, arguing they fail to address core issues like price hikes and restrictive licencing terms.

Last week, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan attempted to reassure customers and investors with a blog post defending the company’s licencing practices.

Broadcom announced price cuts and increased flexibility for moving workloads between cloud environments, but CISPE has taken strong exception to Broadcom’s portrayal of the situation.

The trade body, whose members include 亚马逊 and 26 small European Union cloud providers, says Broadcom’s changes are inadequate and fail to tackle the main issues.

According to CISPE, the subscription model itself is not the problem. “Our members already use subscription licencing,” the trade body stated in a press release. The true issues, it says, lie in “massive price hikes,” product bundling changes and unfair licencing terms that limit customer choice and lock them into Broadcom’s ecosystem.

The core of CISPE’s criticism centres on Broadcom’s new subscription terms, which they argue are “anti-cloud.” The trade body argues these terms force customers to prepay for virtual machine capacity they may not even need, unlike the traditional pay-as-you-go model common in cloud services.

“This is like being forced to pay, in advance, for a fleet of taxis that you may, or may not, use in the next 3 years!” the statement reads.

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