European cloud watchdog slams Broadcom over VMware licensing practices, issues warnings about SAP

Broadcom isn’t playing nicely in the European market, according to a new report by the independent monitoring body European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), which rates Broadcom’s status as “critical” in its most recent analysis of cloud competition in Europe. The company’s conduct has “deteriorated markedly” since October 2025 due to what ECCO calls “continued and escalating” unfair licensing practices, delay tactics and “procedural obstruction” in the European Commission’s antitrust inves