Five cloud business groups urge EU interim measures against Broadcom

BRUSSELS, July 14 : The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has joined forces with four other trade groups to urge EU antitrust regulators to suspend some business practices of U.S. chipmaker Broadcom, according to a joint letter seen by Reuters.CISPE , which has nearly 50 members across Europe and counts Microsoft and Amazon ​as associate members, in March asked for an interim measure on its own after Broadcom last year revamped its VMware cloud service ​provider ecosystem, which it acquired in 2023. CISPE's complaint prompted the European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, to question the VMware licensing changes.Belgium's association of digital business users Beltug, and its counterparts France's Cigref, Germany's VOICE and CIO Platform Nederlan