Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
Summary
Ars Technica reports that Topgolf migrated 12,000 virtual machines from VMware to VergeIO's VergeOS to avoid Broadcom-driven cost increases, resulting in over $11.3 million in savings. The move included significant hardware consolidation, a multi-tenant VergeOS deployment, and an API-first approach that supported IaC tooling like Terraform and Ansible, as well as a Kubernetes-based gaming architecture.