Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange

LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost

VMware is still able to keep some corporate customers onside - it has signed a five-year agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) for its Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud platform.

According to Broadcom, LSEG has used VMware acrossparts of its infrastructure for more than a decade, and the latest purchase centerson deploying VCF to support the stock exchange operator's private cloud.

Broadcom will also provide professional services toroll out VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 across the organization's IT estate aspart of the contract.

The Register asked how much this new agreement is worth, but LSEG declined to disclose figures.

This is a pertinent question, as many customers of VMware's cloudand virtualization software complain that licensing costs have risen significantly since Broadcom paid $61 billion to buy VMwareat the end of...

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