Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware

(arstechnica.com)

57 points | by canucker2016 7 hours ago

3 comments

  • bob1029 3 hours 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 4 hours ago
    Always enjoy reading a post-Broadcom migration story, congrats to Topgolf for making the move.
  • dcrazy 3 hours ago
    Unfortunately it’s a drop in the bucket compared to how much they’re losing on the actual business.