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WAITROSE RUNS CRUCIAL DATA ANALYSIS WITH PURE STORAGE AND REDUCES DATA CENTRE FOOTPRINT
Waitrose is using its Pure Storage ’ s FlashArray technology , reducing its data centre footprint by 75 per cent .
With flash storage , Waitrose benefits from increased speed , overall improved storage performance and extra usable storage space , which it has already used for additional Oracle workloads .
Waitrose , a major UK supermarket chain with 346 stores and 60,000 employees , runs an in-house demand forecasting application using a SAS database . It uses information from various sources to make predictions on the groceries Waitrose stores need to stock to fulfill customer demand . It does this by tracking various sets of data – for example , it can look at weather patterns over the last few years , as well as sales , dates and events .
The application runs using a heavy AIX operating system . Previously there were major issues using a spinning disk array for this process , but with two Pure Storage FlashArrays the App is running on much more efficient hardware , leveraging the amount of capacity that Waitrose wants to dedicate .
Online
. net boosts capacity 400 per cent with France-IX
France-IX has announced that Online . net , one of the leading web hosting providers in France , has joined the growing number of its peering members to upgrade to 100Gb / s ports . The migration from four 10Gb / s ports to two 100Gb / s ports has significantly boosted capacity at Online and is enabling the company to deliver increased performance benefits to its customers .
Part of the Iliad Group , which also owns the operator Free , Online has been providing hosting services since 1999 . Today it hosts several hundred thousand websites across its three data centres and offers a range of services including domain names , dedicated servers and web hosting to Internet stakeholders of all sizes , worldwide .
Online understands that performance doesn ’ t depend solely on processor power or the amount of RAM and so optimises its entire platform , including its network capacity . With the release of France-IX ’ s 100Gb / s member ports , Online decided to upgrade from four 10Gb / s ports to two 100Gb / s ports enabling it to optimie its connection and reduce the complexity of port management .
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