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Topgolf moved 12,000 virtual machines off VMware and reports $11 million in savings

arstechnica.com 5 min read Editor score 7/10

Topgolf moved 12,000 VMs to VergeIO’s VergeOS after a projected 400% VMware cost increase and reports savings above $11 million. The migration is a useful large-estate infrastructure case, though the excerpt gives few implementation details.

What

Topgolf moved 12,000 VMs from VMware to VergeOS after projected VMware costs rose 400%, reporting over $11.3 million in savings.

How

VergeOS provides multi-tenant segmentation through Virtual Data Centers; the migration covered workloads across venues, offices, labs, and data centers.

Why it matters

Large infrastructure migrations can align virtualization changes with hardware refreshes and modernization while coordinating multi-site operations.

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