Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware
canucker2016
48 points
3 comments
October 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
accrual
Always enjoy reading a post-Broadcom migration story, congrats to Topgolf for making the move.
dcrazy
Unfortunately it’s a drop in the bucket compared to how much they’re losing on the actual business.
bob1029
> 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.