Migration benefits
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.
“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.”
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?’”
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.
