REVOLUTIONARY NEW GOLF CONCEPT SELECTS DEDIPOWER FOR ITS MANAGED HOSTING REQUIREMENTS

Posted on: 22/07/2008

DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Global Play Golf (GPG) to provide all their managed hosting requirements. GPG’s vision is to create a new market segment within the huge golfing market by revolutionizing the way people spend time at driving ranges.

GPG have developed an outdoor simulator that allows players practising at driving ranges to turn it into an interactive experience. The GPG web based application platform is an at-impact analyser that captures swing and impact related data to allow the measurement of every facet of the club delivery and ball launch through the impact area. It captures huge amounts of data to enable real time analysis and gaming capabilities. The system can detect at a rate of 5 million times per second providing unrivalled and extremely accurate data collection. The application operates online, providing instant feedback to the user.

“We had a number of very clear priorities when selecting a managed hosting company to support the introduction of the GPG system. The ability to manage and transmit huge amounts of data, the capability to scale with us at a rapid rate as we grow, and to provide high levels of customer service to support a business operating in real time. On all these counts DediPower demonstrated their proven technical experience. This coupled with their commercial flexibility made them the obvious choice,” observed Peter Kershaw, CEO, Global Play Golf.

Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse.