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Jessops Significantly Improves Reliability, Scalability, and Manageability of Online Retail Operations
Jessops is a United Kingdom premier photographic retailer, operating through more than 200 stores and online through Jessops.com. The company was founded in 1935 in Leicester, England and quickly expanded to other major towns and cities. It is a market leader with market shares of over 30% by category. It competes with large organizations, such as Tesco, Amazon, and Dixons Retail, along with countless other traditional and online retailers. Many branches contain minilabs that can offer express printing services as well as the ability to print photo-books in store, and all branches have facilities for digital processing through self-service kiosks.
Challenges
A word from Jessops
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“Replacing our old servers with Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 servers allowed us to ensure our reliability at peak times and seamlessly scale our infrastructure to our needs.” - Tanya Parker, Head of Business Systems, Jessops
- Replace existing end-of-life servers with servers that are best of class in reliability, scalability, and availability, as the hardware platform is critical to online retail photography operations
- Create an environment that is capable of handling data volumes for a large database of 10,000 active stock-keeping units with variants , such as different camera versions, photo packages, and brands
- Increase energy efficiency with more efficient cooling and lower overall power consumption
- Provide a future-proof solution that allows Jessops to effectively compete in a market that increasingly includes a growing number of multichannel photography supply, equipment, and print vendors
Solutions
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- Replaced outdated servers with Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 servers, without interrupting day-to-day retail operations
- Gained a hardware environment that offers best-in-class reliability, availability, and scalability—supporting future growth in data volume and data transfer peaks, such as during the holiday photo season with a performance increase of 50% in some cases
- Reduced the amount of noise and heat in the data center, increased capacity, and decreased power consumption
- Gained a server solution running on Oracle Solaris that lets Jessops increase throughput capability, improving its competitive position in the retail photography market
