RTC Launches Virtualized Point of Sale (POS) Server Farm at Peavey  – Cutting Hardware Costs in Half and Reducing daily Power Consumption by 75%!!

RTC is always looking for ways to help our chain retail customers reduce capital spending and increase overall operational efficiencies.  Recently RTC helped longtime Canadian chain retailer Peavey Industries, who operates 37 Peavey Mart and 3 Main Street Hardware branded country hardware stores in Central and Western Canada, launch a store POS “Virtual Server Farm” or “Virtualization” strategy across their enterprise to reduce hardware capital expense, operational energy costs, and ongoing server support costs, without compromising the reliability and security of the business.  RTC eliminated 40 “in-store” physical servers and replaced them with 3 data center servers housing 40 virtual store servers within them, reducing Peavey’s hardware costs and power usage by 75%.  Read White Paper