Industry: Retail
Client: innovative clothing and home decor company
Challenges:
- The transactional website receives several tens of thousands of multi-item orders every day, during the four-day period of Black Friday.
- The infrastructure in place was causing a bottleneck at this peak period, resulting in a slow down of processes at the warehouse, which had an unacceptable impact on operations and ultimately on delivery time to customers.
- In addition, tape backups required the systems to be shut down for several hours, delaying the nightly processing associated with price updates.
Solution:
- After identifying the reasons for the bottleneck, Present proposed an infrastructure upgrade including two new IBM Power servers and one IBM Flashsystemstorage.
Benefits:
- The new infrastructure now makes it possible to support peak periods and peaks in transactions without impacting operations and delivery times to customers.
- The backup of data on disk is now executed in a much narrower window, which makes it possible to carry out the processing associated with the price changes for the following day in the required time.