Boscov's Stores Make Wedding Splash With IBM's Shark.Business, Technology and Retail Editors PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000 Boscov's department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. has improved business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets from warehouse to cash register by installing a Storage Area Network with IBM's Shark Enterprise Storage Server as the centerpiece. The company now also plans to launch an online wedding gift registry for the June wedding season. Boscov's owns and operates 34 stores in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey Delaware, New Jersey could refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Maryland. It handles six million customer and supplier transactions every week and wanted to make the shopping experience smoother for its customers and 10,000 employees. According to Joe Poole, Boscov's technical support manager, an expanding customer base -- both in-store and online -- and a need to improve supply chain logistics were the key drivers for improving the manageability, access and backup of its data. "Shark's speed, reliability and performance deliver a reliable solution to managing and backing up our critical data," said Poole of Boscov's, who choose IBM's Shark over EMC's storage server. "It has allowed Boscov's to plan a wedding gift registry for the June demand while also eliminating bottlenecks in our supply chain operations from warehouse to storefront. The result is better delivery of services and goods to our customers." The Storage Area Network (SAN) integrates IBM's Shark and Magstar Virtual Tape Servers with Boscov's multiple server platforms including IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) RS/6000 and NT servers. Critical to the success of Boscov's SAN is Shark's Parallel Access Volume (PAV) feature which provides unprecedented performance improvements by enabling multiple applications to simultaneously access the same data. The Shark Enterprise Storage Server is the high-performance disk storage solution from IBM, the world leader in storage systems, software, services and technology. Built on the foundation of IBM's Seascape Storage Enterprise Architecture(a), Shark works with the industry's leading servers and operating systems including Windows NT, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Novell NetWare, S/390 and AS/400 -- and with a variety of interfaces, including Fibre Channel, Ultra SCSI and ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. . Shark incorporates IBM unique technology such as Parallel Access Volumes (PAV), currently unavailable in competing systems from EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. and Compaq Computer Corp. For more information on the Enterprise Storage Server and its performance advantages over competing products, visit www.ibm.com/storage. For more information on Boscov's, visit www.boscov.com (a) Seascape is IBM's storage enterprise architecture, a blueprint for comprehensive storage solutions optimized for a connected world. The Seascape architecture outlines next-generation concepts for storage by integrating modular "building block" technologies from IBM, including disk, tape and optical storage media, powerful processors, and rich software. Integrated Seascape solutions are highly reliable, scaleable and versatile, supporting specialized applications on servers ranging from PCs to supercomputers. IBM and Enterprise Storage Server are registered trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies. |
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