Case Study: Hive (UK smart‑home provider) achieves faster service rollout and 25% cloud savings with VMware Tanzu

Hive sets free its developer teams to drive service excellence in smart home sector

Hive, the UK’s leading smart‑home provider with one million customers (owned by Centrica) and plans to expand internationally, faced the challenge of monitoring massive, complex sensor and cloud data while becoming faster to market with new customer services and empowering developer teams to find and fix issues quickly at scale.

Hive deployed Wavefront by VMware to ingest 100,000 data points per second, giving real‑time dashboards, alerts, automated anomaly detection and service‑based scalability; this transformed developer workflows, closed the feedback loop, accelerated launches and upgrades, improved observability for cloud usage, and reduced monthly AWS spend by 25% while supporting future growth.

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Chris Livermore

Head of Operations