American Internet Services (AIS) Facilitates Callaway Golf's Shift to

In the western part of the United States, American Internet Services (News - Alert) (AIS) is one of the leading providers of enterprise-class data center as well as connectivity services. Callaway Golf Company (Callaway) manufacturers and sell golf clubs, balls and golf apparel including footwear and accessories. This company is under the aegis of Callaway Golf, Odyssey, Top-Flite, and Ben Hogan brands and is present in more than 110 countries internationally. Callaway recently made an announcement that they have completely moved into AIS Enterprise-Class, Lightwave Data Center. Situated around 30 miles south of corporate headquarters, AIS now provides Callaway with a reliable space for growth that is within a fixed price enabling good budgeting. There is also redundancy and security being made available.

In a release, Chris Rousseau, Callaway's SVP Global Information (News - Alert) Technology, said, "We had reached a critical point with our IT infrastructure where we had to make a decision on expanding our current facility or partnering with an enterprise-level data center. We were impressed with the Lightwave facility, the policies and procedures AIS has in place, like its ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) service architecture, and its knowledgeable staff. We feel AIS has mapped out a solid solution that can expand to meet our future business needs."

Callaway approached AIS with the most common of IT infrastructure scenarios – the opportunity of expanding internally or partnering externally. During Callaway’s period of evaluation, AIS was offered a chance to prove their mettle.

Tim Caulfield, Chief Executive Officer at AIS, said, “What Callaway needed fit right in our proverbial wheelhouse. We felt we could offer them the means for controlling their operating and capital expenditure costs while delivering a bullet proof solution that has high-availability at its core."

Callaway's IT team and the AIS ProServices team planned the move over to the Lightwave facility over an 8-month period to ensure that an uneventful transition. As soon as the move took place, Southern California was hit by a massive power outage. The Lightwave facility’s redundant UPS power plants that had a back up of dual generators made sure that Callaway was not hit, thus proving their worth.