VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

CTO highlights Broadcom takeover issues

Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."

Licensing fee reduction via HPE Morpheus VME

Tottenham Hotspur, a professional soccer team that’s part of the Premier League, has saved over 85 percent in licensing fees by replacing its stadium’s VMware instance with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) virtualization software.

• which VMware products it used
• how much it previously paid the Broadcom firm

Move to HPE solutions via GreenLake

The soccer organization confirmed this week to The Register that it has moved its stadium’s server, storage, and networking infrastructure to HPE solutions delivered through HPE’s hybrid cloud management platform, GreenLake.

• server
• storage
• networking

That is all “underpinned by” VME and HPE’s OpsRamp software for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Rob Pickering, Tottenham’s CTO, told the publication, with HPE in charge of the hybrid cloud-managed service.

Stadium data center redesign progress

Tottenham is almost done with a broader redesign of its stadium’s data center and network infrastructure, The Register reported.

Data center hardware specifics

The stadium has a data center with six aisles that uses HPE’s ProLiant Compute Gen12 server hardware and Alletra Storage MP.

• HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 server hardware
• Alletra Storage MP

HPE announcement on solutions

In an announcement this week, HPE noted that Tottenham is using “solutions including HPE Morpheus software and HPE OpsRamp software… to manage a complex, multi-site environment more efficiently while modernizing virtualization platforms and reducing operational overhead.”

• HPE Morpheus software
• HPE OpsRamp software

Pickering on replacement cycles

“We’re at the right time of our replacement cycles to be looking at those decision points,” Pickering told SDxCentral this week.

Pickering on hypervisor and VMware

“For at least as long as my career in technology, hypervisor has been one of those very unsexy things that you bought from one person and you just sort of got on with it. And you know, with VMware, a 400-pound gorilla in that space, they took some decisions that I think run counter to both the system integrator side and the customer side.”