Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League soccer team, has saved over 85 percent in licensing fees by replacing its stadium's VMware instance with HPE's Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) virtualization software. The club hasn't disclosed specific VMware products or previous costs paid to Broadcom.

Tottenham confirmed moving its stadium's server, storage, and networking infrastructure to HPE solutions delivered through HPE's hybrid cloud management platform, Green Lake. The setup is underpinned by VME and HPE's Ops Ramp software, with HPE managing the hybrid cloud service, Rob Pickering, Tottenham's CTO, told The Register.

Tottenham is nearly done redesigning its stadium's data center and network infrastructure. The data center uses HPE's ProLiant Compute Gen12 server hardware and Alletra Storage MP. HPE noted Tottenham uses Morpheus and Ops Ramp software to manage a complex, multi-site environment efficiently while modernizing virtualization platforms.

Pickering told SDxCentral: "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." The migration comes as organizations reassess virtualization licensing following Broadcom's VMware acquisition.