LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost
tue 19 May 2026 // 13:10 UTC VMware is still able to keep some corporate customers onside - it has signed a five-year agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group for its Cloud Foundation private cloud platform.
According to Broadcom, LSEG has used VMware across parts of its infrastructure for more than a decade, and the latest purchase centers on deploying VCF to support the stock exchange operator's private cloud.half of VMware users are looking to reduce their use of the virtualization pioneer's products by 2028 , as many are not happy with Broadcom's recent strategy of only selling a complete private cloud suite in the form of VCF 9. Previously, companies were able to pick and choose parts of the software stack that suited them.
LSEG also declined to reveal its rationale for sticking with VMware, beyond the details disclosed in the announcement.
"Extending our use of VMware Cloud Foundation supports an engineered private cloud for our operations, while giving us the flexibility to support new services and workloads as our technology needs evolve," said Andrew Knight, LSEG CIO for Infrastructure and Cloud. These include a multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services as the preferred cloud provider for its Markets, Risk Intelligence, and FTSE Russell divisions, and an earlier long-termI wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'?
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