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Power Mobility Equipment Supplier Increases Business Agility With Virtualized IT Solution

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Overview With a nationwide network of distribution centers and service specialists, The SCOOTER Store is the leading supplier of power mobility devices in the United States. Since 1991, The SCOOTER Store has helped more than 300,000 people with mobility challenges lead full, self-sufficient lives. The company must maintain agile and flexible IT systems to stay in compliance with changing government mandates, manage accelerating growth, provide comprehensive service to its customers, and administer its distribution, sales, and billing. To save money and better align its IT infrastructure with its business needs, The SCOOTER Store needed to consolidate its physical IT environment. The SCOOTER Store deployed Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to make its IT infrastructure a more dynamic strategic asset for the enterprise.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	March 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Monitoring Systems, Application Servers, Virtualization

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