Customer Case Study
Go Daddy
4/3/2009
Web Hosting Firm Empowers Customers, Realizes Operational Benefits
Go Daddy.com offers more than 40 Web site products and services for its customers. With its focus on empowering its customers to achieve success on the Web, Go Daddy deployed Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0) to address its own expanding IT infrastructure requirements as it supported the growing needs of its customers. New features have enabled Go Daddy to provide an improved customer experience based on more individual choice and flexibility, while offering reliability, improved manageability and increased data security.
Industry: Web Site Registrars, Hosting and Application Service Providers
Size: Large, 2000 employees
Country: US  US

Customer Profile
http://www.godaddy.com/
GoDaddy.com, Inc., based in Scottsdale, AZ, is the largest Web site domain registrar and a leading Web site host and services provider. It offers 40+ products to enable successful online operations.
Business Situation
Go Daddy was challenged with providing new and innovative technologies to meet the growing needs of its customers while addressing its own expanding IT infrastructure requirements.
Solution
Go Daddy deployed Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.0 to offer its customers additional Web site development choices, while providing improved Web site reliability and increased security.
Benefit
  • Empowers customers with more choices
  • Provides greater development flexibility
  • Improves server & site manageability
  • Increases security & reliability
Software
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Quote
"Running Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0 allows us to keep a competitive mentality going forward. It affords us the ability to be more efficient while maintaining lower costs and accommodating our customers' needs."
Justin Jilg
Director, New Product Development and Strategy
Go Daddy