Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware
Topgolf reports more than $11.3 million saved after migrating from VMware to VergeOS.
After Broadcom's VMware takeover, Topgolf migrated from VMware on 650 VxRail hosts to VergeOS on about 400 Dell PowerEdge servers in roughly six months. The company reported an 87 percent reduction in comparative hardware spend and a 77 percent cut in software costs, with a five-year enterprise license versus VMware's reported three-year term. VergeIO says it gains about 70 customers a quarter, mostly VMware customers facing renewals, hardware refreshes, many sites, or multi-tenancy needs. Topgolf uses VergeOS tenants by time zone and runs its proprietary Toptracer ball-tracking workload in the cluster.
- Topgolf replaced 650 VxRail hosts with about 400 Dell PowerEdge servers in six months.
- Comparative hardware spend fell 87 percent and software costs fell 77 percent.
- VergeOS tenancy segments clusters by time zone and supports nested labs.
- VergeIO says it adds about 70 customers a quarter, mostly from VMware.
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VergeIO gets about 70 new customers a quarter, “and most of them are coming off VMware,” Crump said. Most of those VMware migrators are facing renewal, are due for a hardware refresh, run many sites, or need multi-tenancy. “Most customers bundle the [migration from VMware to VergeOS] with a hardware refresh or a modernization effort, as Topgolf did with its gaming architecture.
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