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{"title":"The backdrop","authors":"Petra Carlsson Redell","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1dnnbrd.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1dnnbrd.5","url":null,"abstract":"INDUSTRY Automotive TECHNOLOGY PARTNER Datacentrix ABOUT TIAUTO TiAuto (Pty) Ltd. is the holding company of South Africa's best-loved brands in the retail and wholesale wheels, tyres, and automotive related products and services categories. The TiAuto stable comprises of 7 divisions and 14 brands, all of which share the distinction of being trusted by customers and emulated by their competitors. The divisions place a high value on the loyalty accorded them by customers and strive continuously to remain deserving of their high regard. BENEFITS • Full view of health of virtualized environment • Visual reports for executives • Consolidation of 1000 disparate systems for group IT • Ability to charge back on consumption to group divisions • Improved support times • Heightened management of full virtual server environment and datacentre Full visibility, improved performance and ability to further sweat IT assets Automotive giant opts for monitoring and capacity planning tool to help it gather the intelligence needed to bolster IT operations When looking to improve the health of its IT systems, in particular its virtualized server environment, South African automotive leader TiAuto managed to amass extensive concrete business and fi nancial benefi ts with the simple implementation of a performance and capacity management tool. TiAuto is the holding company of South Africa's best-loved brands in the retail and wholesale wheels, tyres, and automotive related products and services industries. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, the TiAuto stable comprises of seven divisions and 14 brands, some of which include Tiger Wheel & Tyre, Tyres & More, YSA and Treads Unlimited. The automotive company has been a VMware customer for in excess of nine years, running its virtualization technology, the vSphere suite, across all of its business operations from its head o ce in Johannesburg. \" When we fi rst looked to virtualize our server environment all those years back the biggest factor that drove our decision to deploy VMware was that it would help us ease the hardware costs of our UNIX environment. An environment that was becoming increasingly di cult to scale and more and more expensive to add hardware to, \" states David van Vuuren, Group ICT Manager at TiAuto. \" Today our entire head o ce server and infrastructure business is virtualized which includes all of our Microsoft systems, as we are predominantly a Microsoft shop, as well as our bespoke ERP solution. \" It wasn't until 2012 however that …","PeriodicalId":314047,"journal":{"name":"Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology","volume":"127 22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124837747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}