Case Study: Guess achieves secure, PCI-compliant virtualization and affordable disaster recovery with Trend Micro Deep Security

Fashion retailer gains affordable, secure redundancy and disaster recovery with VMware solutions

Guess?, Inc., the Los Angeles–based fashion retailer with ~5,000 North America employees and hundreds of stores, needed to replace aging servers and centrally manage a large, geographically distributed infrastructure (1 data center, 4 large offices, ~540 retail sites). The team sought a cost‑effective, scalable solution that provided affordable redundancy and disaster recovery while meeting strict PCI compliance and overcoming rising endpoint malware and limited resources in small offices.

Guess? deployed VMware vSphere in its main data center and ESX in small offices, managed with vCenter, vMotion and DRS, and layered Trend Micro Deep Security and Enterprise Security for endpoint, mail and data‑center protection. The result: 60–70% virtualization in the data center with ~35:1 consolidation, simplified disaster recovery, affordable software redundancy, stronger PCI compliance and fewer security incidents—backed by easy day‑to‑day management and successful annual penetration tests.

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Scott Forrest

Director of Networks & Infrastructure