EMC Equals E-Commerce for OfficeMax
"With EMC Enterprise Storage, OfficeMax provides more continuous access to our mission-critical systems, which in turn improves customer satisfaction," said Michael Feuer, OfficeMax's chairman and chief executive officer.
"Our e-commerce site is always online, our call centers are open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, and we operate 17 delivery centers around the country that guarantee next-day delivery. Any short period of system downtime may result in lost customers, revenue and profitability."
OfficeMax has acquired Fibre Channel-connected EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and several EMC software solutions--including EMC TimeFinder, EMC PowerPath and Symmetrix Manager. Spending was not disclosed.
OfficeMax also will use EMC TimeFinder to create a copy of production data, freeze it at a point in time, and allow parallel backup access to this data while productive work continues.
"Performing backups with TimeFinder while the systems are running will eliminate a significant portion of our planned outages," said Feuer. "TimeFinder will let us run backups on a daily basis."
October 11th, 2008, posted by anonym