Ping chooses Databarracks to keep them in the Bunker
24th March 2009
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This year Ping is 50 years old and a lot has happened since
Karsten Solheim's frustration with his putter lead him to design
his own out of his garage all those years ago. Little could Karsten
have imagined that 50 years later Ping would be one of the most
recognised global sports brands, respected for the passion they
have for the sport and the customers they serve. Ping is a golf
icon, highly regarded for the engineering innovations they have
brought to the industry.
In 2009, with many locations all over the world and over 1,000
employees, the passion for golf and the products that Ping produce
haven't changed, but the way in which the company delivers them
certainly has. While Karsten's youngest son (C.E.O.) and his eldest
grandson (also a John) ensure that the company's passion and focus
remain unwavering, the company's technology focus is global
delivery, 3d modelling and supercomputing; a long cry from Karsten
Solheim's Garage.
It was by embracing only the best technology that Ping Europe
chose Databarracks to help protect their information systems. "As
an IT team, we support approximately 100 staff members here in
Europe and we pride ourselves on giving those users a very high
quality of service." said Neil Cottingham, IT Manager at Ping
Europe. "We have a UNIX E.R.P. system (Enterprise Resource
Planning) and various other email and application servers; which we
backed up to tape. The UNIX system meant that we were stuck with a
legacy backup solution which was causing us some pain and I wasn't
100% confident that my tapes would restore; and certainly not
within the time frame the business requires."
"Databarracks was chosen after searching for the best online backup
solution and a proof-of-concept, which included a test restore of
our ERP system, I now feel confident that the business can continue
with as little impact as possible if we had a disaster and the fact
that the service is fully managed means that neither myself nor my
team have to spend any more time on backups or log checking", said
Neil.
Databarracks uses a combination of Asigra
software with Netapp hardware and the Bunker, a tier 4 data
centre in Kent, to deliver a fully managed backup service to
thousands of enterprise customers based in the UK and across the
world.
Peter Groucutt, managing director at Databarracks, comments: "We
are really happy that Pinghas chosen us to manage the backup of
their European operations. To be able to partner with such a
globally recognisable brand that has leveraged product performance
and quality throughout the golf industry is gratifying.
Databarracks share Ping's passion for innovation and
technology….not to mention golf."