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

迁移至 VMware 替代方案，托特纳姆热刺队许可费用降低 85%

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. 作为英超联赛职业足球队，托特纳姆热刺队（Tottenham Hotspur）通过将其体育场内的 VMware 实例替换为慧与科技（HPE）的 Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) 虚拟化软件，节省了超过 85% 的许可费用。

Tottenham hasn’t disclosed which VMware products it used or how much it previously paid the Broadcom firm. 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. 托特纳姆热刺队并未披露其此前使用的 VMware 具体产品，也未透露此前向博通（Broadcom）支付的具体金额。该足球俱乐部本周向《The Register》证实，他们已将其体育场的服务器、存储和网络基础设施迁移至 HPE 的解决方案，并通过 HPE 的混合云管理平台 GreenLake 进行交付。

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. Tottenham is almost done with a broader redesign of its stadium’s data center and network infrastructure, The Register reported. 托特纳姆热刺队首席技术官 Rob Pickering 对该媒体表示，这一切都由 VME 以及用于混合云和多云环境的 HPE OpsRamp 软件提供“支撑”，并由 HPE 负责混合云托管服务。《The Register》报道称，托特纳姆热刺队对其体育场数据中心和网络基础设施的全面重新设计已接近尾声。

The stadium has a data center with six aisles that uses HPE’s ProLiant Compute Gen12 server hardware and Alletra Storage MP. 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.” 该体育场拥有一个包含六个通道的数据中心，采用了 HPE 的 ProLiant Compute Gen12 服务器硬件和 Alletra Storage MP 存储。HPE 在本周的一份公告中指出，托特纳姆热刺队正在使用“包括 HPE Morpheus 软件和 HPE OpsRamp 软件在内的解决方案……以更高效地管理复杂的多站点环境，同时实现虚拟化平台的现代化并降低运营开销。”

“We’re at the right time of our replacement cycles to be looking at those decision points,” Pickering told SDxCentral this week. “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.” “我们正处于更换周期的合适时机，可以审视这些决策点，”Pickering 本周对 SDxCentral 表示。“在我从事技术工作的整个职业生涯中，虚拟机管理程序（Hypervisor）一直是一种非常枯燥的东西，你从某家供应商那里买来，然后就凑合着用。而 VMware 作为该领域的大块头，他们做出的一些决策我认为既违背了系统集成商的利益，也违背了客户的利益。”

Migration benefits

迁移带来的益处

Pickering told SDxCentral that Morpheus VME’s “ability to do things on behalf of the hardware far outstrips what VMware can do on that front.” “So in many ways, it’s more capable,” Pickering added. He told The Register that “savings is a big part of the reason” for Tottenham’s migration. The organization is saving “north of 85 percent” in licensing fees compared to when it relied on VMware, the executive said. Pickering 对 SDxCentral 表示，Morpheus VME “代表硬件执行任务的能力远超 VMware 在这方面的表现。” “因此在许多方面，它功能更强大，”Pickering 补充道。他告诉《The Register》，“节省成本是托特纳姆热刺队进行迁移的主要原因之一。”这位高管表示，与依赖 VMware 时相比，该组织节省了“超过 85%”的许可费用。

“We moved away as we put [in] the infrastructure… over the last three months,” Pickering said. “The issues with the Broadcom takeover of VMware are well-known in terms of the commercial changes to their structure and the way that they engage with clients.” “我们在过去三个月里部署基础设施的同时完成了迁移，”Pickering 说。“博通收购 VMware 后带来的问题众所周知，特别是在其商业结构调整以及与客户互动方式上的改变。”

Tottenham’s CTO said that moving from VMware was about more than saving money. “If [virtualization is] not built into a broader AI operation stack, the value is even lower again,” Pickering said. “Having that all connected back into an operation stack that our team can work from—one pane of glass—is worth more than just the savings that come from moving vendor A to vendor B. We do see significant savings from that, but really, it’s all part of the broader story of, ‘How do we put AI ops at the heart of what we do from a technology perspective?’” 托特纳姆热刺队的首席技术官表示，弃用 VMware 不仅仅是为了省钱。“如果（虚拟化）没有构建在更广泛的 AI 运维堆栈中，其价值会进一步降低，”Pickering 说。“将所有内容连接回我们的团队可以操作的运维堆栈——即‘单一管理平台’——其价值远超从供应商 A 转向供应商 B 所带来的节省。我们确实看到了显著的成本节约，但这实际上只是一个更大愿景的一部分，即‘从技术角度来看，我们如何将 AI 运维置于我们工作的核心？’”

In 2025, Pickering said that Tottenham had “a total technology team of about 35 people.” With a team that small, the “ability to use AI operations to proactively see faults and remediate them without the input of a person is really critical,” Pickering told The Register. Pickering 表示，2025 年托特纳姆热刺队的“技术团队总人数约为 35 人。”他告诉《The Register》，对于这样一个精简的团队来说，“利用 AI 运维主动发现故障并在无需人工干预的情况下进行修复的能力，确实至关重要。”