E-ternity Scores with Callaway Golf

E-ternity helps Callaway Golf Canada Ltd. Protect Their Business with High Availability IT Infrastructure Solution

Mississauga, Ontario- April 5, 2007

E-ternity Business Continuity Consultants Inc., a Mississauga, Ontario based company that provides comprehensive Business Continuity Solutions to customers in Ontario, announced that Callaway Golf Canada Ltd. selected E-ternity to help them address their Disaster Recovery Objectives for 2007 with the re-architecture of a new High Availability IT infrastructure.  Callaway Golf manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls, and sells golf accessories, under the Callaway Golf ®, Top-Flite ®, Odyssey ®, and Ben Hogan ® brands.

Callaway Golf Company, headquartered in Carlsbad, California announced an initiative in 2006 to improve their overall Disaster Recovery capabilities worldwide.  Understanding the importance of having a sound Disaster Recovery strategy, the Information Technology team in Canada led by Director of IT Paul Switzer made a decision to be proactive with the process.  “After hearing about our corporate mandate to improve the company’s Disaster Recovery capabilities, our Canadian team chose to be at the forefront of this initiative and hence began investigating our options,” began Switzer.  “It was at this time that we started our discussions with E-ternity.  It was clear early on that E-ternity’s experience in this space would be extremely beneficial to us throughout this process.”

Callaway’s goal was to first and foremost protect their Canadian Operations from any downtime, and this included addressing their primary IT infrastructure as well as their remote infrastructure capabilities.  Together with Callaway, E-ternity designed a solution that would improve Callaway’s local site availability while providing them with failover capabilities to their California site in the event of a complete outage in Canada.  To improve the redundancy of their IT infrastructure, E-ternity architected a solution utilizing IBM’s System X Servers, EMC’s Clariion Data Storage Solution, EMC’s RepliStor remote replication software, Quantum’s Tape Solution, and VMware’s virtualization software. 

Switzer was very pleased with the results.  “Every step of the way, E-ternity’s competence and expertise shone through.  This entire solution was carefully scrutinized first by our Canadian IT team, and then by the US team in California.  By the end of the process, E-ternity gave us complete confidence that this was the right solution for our requirements,” Switzer summarized.
 
Guy Netaneli, E-ternity’s Manager of Data Integrity Services, was happy with the rollout of the project.  “Callaway’s team was very easy to work with.  The thoroughness of their evaluation and their keen interest in implementing the best possible solution ensured their peace of mind.”  Michael Aaron, E-ternity’s Managing Director of Services, agreed.  “Throughout this process, we built a trusting relationship that will carry forward for years to come.  We are very pleased and proud to call Callaway Golf Canada Ltd. an E-ternity customer.”

About Callaway Golf Company
Through an unwavering commitment to innovation, Callaway Golf creates products and services designed to make every golfer a better golfer. Callaway Golf Company manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls, and sells golf accessories, under the Callaway Golf(R), Top-Flite(R), Odyssey(R) and Ben Hogan(R) brands. For more information visit www.callawaygolf.com.

About E-ternity
E-ternity Business Continuity Consultants Inc. is a Mississauga, Ontario based organization that provides Business Continuity Management Services, Data Integrity Solutions, and Voice Continuity Services to customers in Ontario.  E-ternity is laser-focused on designing and implementing solutions that will allow customers to achieve a perpetual state where their business will never experience downtime again.  The organization prides itself as a single-source provider that brings customers best of breed technologies and methodologies and deploys them in a cohesive, integrated fashion.  E-ternity helps customers find the perfect intersection between their acceptable risk and their available budget.  More information about E-ternity can be found at www.e-ternity.ca.