Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware

62 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by canucker2016

4 Comments

bob1029

6 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

7 hours ago

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

dcrazy

6 hours ago

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