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Tesco has applied the latest blade server and virtualisation technology to mission-critical systems running in its data centre to improve performance, cut costs and help fulfil its commitment to reduce its carbon emissions.
The UK supermarket giant late yesterday announced updates to its Real Time Sales (RTS) systems, virtualising key business applications with Citrix XenServer, running on HP ProLiant BL680c G5 blade servers.
The updates and new IT infrastructure have increased the capacity of Tescos RTS systems by 75 per cent, to handle 1,500 sales-related messages per second. The work also represents a milestone in the retailers plans to virtualise its entire server infrastructure.
And the project has helped the company hit its target of reducing carbon emissions from its UK data centres by 20 per cent.
Tesco needed to handle its growing capacity demands, and looked at virtualisation as a more cost and carbon efficient option than just buying more physical servers. But, as the same time, it needed to ensure the new infrastructure could also improve performance.
Nick Folkes, UK IT director at Tesco, explained:
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