Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware

(arstechnica.com)

62 points | by canucker2016 10 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • bob1029 6 hours ago ago

    > the sports entertainment company moved 12,000 virtual machines (VMs)

    So, for each top golf location we have something like 120 VMs? That sounds suspiciously like exactly one per bay.

    After a point it must be cheaper to bring in a AAA engineer and do this with 10-50x fewer machines. Poking VMs with the management stick doesn't fundamentally solve this IT scaling problem.

  • accrual 7 hours ago ago

    Always enjoy reading a post-Broadcom migration story, congrats to Topgolf for making the move.

  • dcrazy 6 hours ago ago

    Unfortunately it’s a drop in the bucket compared to how much they’re losing on the actual business.