Case Study: Large Retailing Company achieves resilient, low-cost remote data center operations with Digital Realty

Large Retailing Company - Customer Case Study

A leading global retail brand with distributed food and beverage operations and thousands of point-of-sale locations needed a data center strategy to support rapid expansion, ensure disaster recovery and resiliency, and locate primary and secondary facilities far from its headquarters (which is in a region prone to natural disasters) while minimizing total cost of ownership and securing onsite services for remote management.

Digital Realty delivered two highly secure, low-risk facilities in Ashburn, VA and Chandler, AZ (the Arizona site offering state tax incentives), plus data center management and technical support. With largely automated, power-efficient operations and extensive onsite services, the retailer now visits sites only once or twice a year, achieving reduced downtime risk, significant TCO and travel/IT staff savings, and reliable failover for its POS infrastructure.