Background - PGA TOUR Superstore, a partner of the PGA Tour, is one of the fastest-growing golf and tennis retailers in the United States; operating eight 70,000 square foot retail stores. PGA TOUR's data center and computing infrastructure has been growing rapidly and they were seeking a cost-effective solution to support bother internal and website servers as part of a larger data center restructuring effort. Needing cost-effective and enterprise-class capabilities to support business and infrastructure growth, PGA TOUR looked to Virtual Iron after evaluating VMware and other virtualization solutions.

Solution - Virtual Iron gave PGA TOUR Superstores the solution they needed -- cost-effective, comprehensive virtualization management capabilities. Simultaneous Fibre Channel and iSCSI support allows PGA TOUR to leverage SAN very cost-effectively. With Virtual Iron, PGA TOUR saw simplified installation and deployment of a virtual environment, the ability to manage all virtual servers within Virtual Iron's Virtualization Manager console and was able to take advantage of Virtual Iron's large memory and large SMP support.

Impact - Quite simply, PGA TOUR Superstores is able to improve data center efficiency and performance as a result of implementing Virtual Iron's virtualization solution.

Quote - "After evaluating the features, functionality and pricing of virtualization products from other major virtualization vendors, Virtual Iron was an easy choice," said Gentry Ganote, CIO of Golf and Tennis Pro Shop, Inc., which owns PGA TOUR Superstore. "Virtual Iron's outstanding support team, which was another key factor in our selection, was great during both our evaluation period and our implemenetation. I can heartily recommend Virtual Iron as the platform of choice for delivering advanced capabilities for virtualizaing large server enviroments."

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