Tottenham Hotspur has reduced its virtualization licensing costs by more than 85% after replacing VMware instances at its stadium with Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
The Premier League soccer club did not disclose which VMware products it previously used or how much it paid Broadcom for licensing.
Tottenham announced the technology overhaul this week. The Register reported that the club has migrated its stadium server, storage, and networking infrastructure to HPE solutions delivered through the company’s GreenLake hybrid cloud management platform.
Tottenham Chief Technology Officer Rob Pickering said the new environment is supported by HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and HPE OpsRamp, which is designed to manage hybrid and multicloud environments. HPE is also responsible for providing the club’s hybrid cloud management services.
The club has nearly completed a major redesign of its stadium data center and network infrastructure, according to The Register. The facility includes a six-aisle data center built with HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers and HPE Alletra Storage MP systems.
HPE said Tottenham uses a range of technologies, including HPE Morpheus software and HPE OpsRamp, to manage complex, multisite systems. The modernization is intended to improve virtualization management, reduce operational overhead, and create a more efficient IT environment.
“We are at the perfect time in the replacement cycle to consider these decision points,” Pickering told SDx Central this week.
“Hypervisors, at least during my career in technology, have been one of those super-sexy things that you buy from someone and just get away with it. And with VMware, which is the 400-pound gorilla in this space, they’ve made some decisions that I think go against both the systems integrator side and the customer side.”
Source: arstechnica.com