A commerce affiliation of cloud service suppliers (CSPs) filed an antitrust grievance in the present day with the European Union’s European Fee (EC) over Broadcom’s shuttering of VMware’s CSP accomplice program this yr.
Since Broadcom purchased VMware, it has drastically reduce the variety of channel companions VMware works with, a shift that started with the elimination of VMware’s accomplice program. Broadcom changed this system with an invite-only different that favors bigger companions working with enterprise-size shoppers quite than small-to-medium-size companies.
There are even fewer CSP companions working with VMware in the present day. Broadcom launched a requirement that CSP companions function not less than 3,500 cores, rendering tons of of CSPs ineligible for partnership. Earlier than Broadcom purchased VMware, the virtualization firm had over 4,000 CSP companions, per a February 2024 report from The Register. At the moment, VMware reportedly has 19 CSP companions within the US and about 9 in the UK, The Register reported.
