EU Scrutinizes Broadcom's VMware Licensing Changes

Cloudflare has become a public Certificate Authority, issuing post-quantum ready TLS certificates to external organizations. The company also introduced Basin, an open-source serverless data platform designed to handle application data without dedicated infrastructure management. In addition, Cloudflare entered a major partnership with Deutsche Telekom to offer joint security and connectivity services to enterprise clients across Europe. The moves extend Cloudflare beyond protecting and accelerating traffic into owning key trust primitives and a neutral, open data layer, in contrast to more closed ecosystems at players like Amazon or Microsoft. The Deutsche Telekom tie-up deepens enterprise penetration through large multi-product deals while testing a flagged risk around customer concentration and execution at scale.

RapidScale has been selected by AHEAD as its strategic VMware Cloud Service Provider partner, the company announced. The partnership unites RapidScale's managed cloud platform and operational expertise with AHEAD's infrastructure and transformation capabilities to deliver stability, continuity and a clear VMware roadmap for customers, in response to changes to Broadcom's partner program for VMware CSPs. AHEAD will continue as a VMware reseller while leveraging RapidScale's VCSP capabilities, and RapidScale becomes AHEAD's sole VMware private cloud managed services partner. AHEAD sellers will offer RapidScale's portfolio of private cloud solutions, with the near-term focus on helping customers maintain stability and run in place. RapidScale CEO Duane Barnes said the partnership reinforces a reliable, long-term path forward, citing the company's recognition earlier this year as the 2025 VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service Partner of the Year by Broadcom. AHEAD Executive Vice President of Services Keith Odom said the selection represents a clear, long-term commitment to its VMware clients, noting AHEAD is a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner recently recognized with four 2025 Broadcom Partner Awards.

PROEN Corp, or PROEN, has received an investment promotion card from the Board of Investment, or BOI, for its Cloud Service business, granting an exemption from corporate income tax on net profits from the promoted business for up to 8 years, with the total exempted tax amount not exceeding 100% of the investment, excluding land costs and working capital, along with import duty benefits on machinery under specified conditions. Chief Executive Officer Kittiphun Sribua-iam disclosed that this BOI privilege extends the company's digital infrastructure business and opens the opportunity to generate increased revenue from Cloud services in the future. The promotion card requires the project to have an investment of no less than 282.86 million baht, excluding land costs and working capital, and to commence operations within 36 months from the date the promotion card is issued. The project scope covers Cloud Service offerings including Infrastructure as a Service, or IaaS, and Platform as a Service, or PaaS, along with conditions regarding the Data Center, connectivity systems, and standards for security and service provision. The company also plans to organize training to develop knowledge and skills in using Cloud Service continuously every quarter for a period of 3 years from the date the promotion card is received. The Cloud business is expected to help create a new revenue base and support the recovery of operating results in the period ahead.

On the evening of September 30, ST Dou Shen (300010) disclosed that its wholly owned subsidiary Dou Shen Hong Kong recently signed a Cloud Computing Service Agreement with a certain customer, with a total contract value of about 119 million US dollars, equivalent to about 800 million yuan. The service period of the agreement is 60 months, and the customer will prepay 40 percent of the total order amount as agreed and pay service fees monthly. ST Dou Shen did not disclose specific customer information, stating that the contract involves confidentiality clauses and that it has completed internal procedures for exemption from disclosure of confidential information. The company said the contract is a large-scale computing power service project for the implementation of its intelligent computing service business, an important practice in cultivating a second growth curve, and reflects the extension of its business from AI applications to the computing power infrastructure field. Wind data shows that since mid-August 2026, ST Dou Shen's stock price has risen by more than 120 percent cumulatively.