Taylormade Golf Moves to Cloud-Based DR of ERP Systems For

CASE TaylorMade Golf moves to cloud-based DR of ERP systems for greater reliability, STUDY scalability and performance ORGANIZATION: Based in Carlsbad, Calif., with oﬃces worldwide, TaylorMade Golf is a manufacturer of golf clubs, bags and accessories. The ﬁrm is currently one of the largest golf equipment and apparel companies in the world

CHALLENGE: Finding an alternative disaster recovery solution for a new ERP system

SOLUTION: Datapipe’s Oracle-Optimized Solution for DR

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THE CHALLENGE to incorporate newer technology, for example, TaylorMade Golf’s initial success came virtualization, which would allow for quickly scaling with the innovation of metal drivers, which debuted memory size, CPU and disk space – without having in 1979 and subsequently dominated the game of golf. to purchase incremental hardware. Currently, the company markets TaylorMade drivers, fairway woods and hybrids, irons, wedges, golf balls, While the organization was using nightly backup footwear and apparel. and data replication for disaster recovery, Nevlida envisioned a solution with a lower recovery point Finding an alternative disaster recovery solution objective (RPO) through continuous replication. for a new ERP system. TaylorMade Golf found itself “We needed a disaster recovery environment that with a number of legacy IT systems. While looking was best of breed to match the 99.99 percent uptime to upgrade in a number of areas, it was disaster of our new Oracle ERP solution,” he says. recovery (DR) that initially caught the collective eye of IT management. The planned loss of a corporate The TaylorMade IT team initially considered a colocation disaster recovery support platform offered facility for its disaster- recovery site. It also considered an opportunity to investigate alternative solutions putting the disaster-recovery capabilities at another including DR relocation and upgrade. of its own sites. “There were unique benefits with each,” Nevlida says. “But ultimately, we needed something set “We wanted to upgrade our disaster-recovery capabilities up quickly that could scale inexpensively.” in order to mitigate the chance of data loss in our mission-critical, enterprise resource planning or ERP To assist in finding the best solution, TaylorMade system,” says Mike Nevlida, director, infrastructure Golf called upon the aggregation services team from and services, TaylorMade Golf. CDW. “An invaluable resource for CDW customers, our aggregation services team offers experienced, “We were looking at the concept of continuous data professional assistance in the areas of telecom, hosting protection in both our onsite production and DR and cloud services,” says Mike DeCorte, CDW environments,” he adds. Nevlida also wanted account manager. 02 THE SOLUTION To facilitate disaster recovery of its ERP database, Build ERP disaster recovery in a data center hosted TaylorMade decided on an Oracle Limited disaster by Amazon Web Services while utilizing an Oracle- recovery optimized solution. “We learned that optimized solution for DR in a cloud managed the Oracle Limited solution was available to us by Datapipe. Teaming with CDW aggregation services, at no cost when in sleep or standby state,” Nevlida says. TaylorMade looked at a number of colocation centers. “AWS is an authorized cloud platform for Oracle — one However, Nevlida and the team could not find of a very small number of approved cloud vendors,” the perfect fit. “To achieve TaylorMade’s vision Strombom adds. As for a cloud service provider, CDW of a scalable DR environment, we needed to look recommended Datapipe. It was Datapipe’s flexibility beyond colocation,” says Brent Strombom, cloud and willingness to share its operations expertise aggregation specialist with CDW. “We focused on that attracted TaylorMade to the cloud provider. DR as a Service and cloud services.” “From the very beginning, we were talking about instances and hourly costs,” Nevlida says. “This The CDW team eventually suggested a solution was an entirely different approach from the colocation consisting of a data center hosted by Amazon Web options we explored earlier.” Services (AWS). “For a long time, we did not think our requirements would work with Amazon,” Nevlida says. “We required private networking and multiple nodes to be replicated synchronously, that seemed to defy implementation at a public cloud provider.”

03 OPERATIONAL IMPACT

RESULTS & BENEFITS Economical cloud-based, disaster-recovery environment • Less effort testing and more offering the potential to do more with less. confidence in DR readiness TaylorMade Golf deployed the hybrid cloud architecture for its disaster recovery platform through Amazon Web • Inexpensive testing without Services and Datapipe. “AWS offered us a turnkey disrupting ongoing replication solution,” Nevlida says. “We can even move between • The ability to ramp-up and various Amazon data centers if needed for changing change in a fraction of the protection requirements – without incurring any data time previously required transfer charges.” • More predictable operating The Datapipe team was able to build a custom, yet expenses (OPEX) cost-effective, DR environment harnessing the power of AWS. “TaylorMade had a highly specific use case • Minimal increase in for the deployment of cloud resources for disaster operational support recovery in an AWS environment,” says Gary Veselka, • Gained cloud skills through account executive with Datapipe. “It was an ideal partnership with subject matters opportunity for Datapipe to architect, secure and manage a hybrid solution optimized to scale.”

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