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At Dominos Pizza we sell a million pizzas a day.
Our Point of Sale system has to be available online.
If our store servers go down,
a third of our business actually evaporates. If our store servers go down,
a third of our business actually evaporates.
More than one billion dollars
comes through our online ordering system.
The challenge is that
most companies may have an IT person at a store,
we simply don't.
We want an enterprise level virtualization in the store
because really a store is a mini-data center
so to have a reliable virtualization platform
is really critical.
We saw a net gain increase
moving from a hosted virtualization platform
to the native hybrid view platform.
Gains in every category,
as far as disk I/O
and memory CPU performance.
We have almost 5,000 stores domestically,
of which there is two physical host,
and one virtual machine that
runs the Point of Sale system.
So there is a total of about 15,000 machines.
We manage that with System Center,
and all that is managed by two administrators.
The amount of stress involved in
managing even 10,000 systems at a time...
without System Center,
we wouldn't even be able to really do anything but
run scripts on stores all day.
With System Center Operations Manager,
we're able to decipher quickly if
an issue reported to our help desk
is something that is widespread
or if it's a concentrated issue.
Now, Operations Manager does help us
pinpoint the stuff if you know it is not working.
and fix it proactively.
Technology drives our business forward.
Microsoft is the underpinning
to making sure these things stay up.
A third of our orders come through online ordering
but we expect that number to be a lot higher in the future
and it's absolutely critical that we continue
to invest in technology.