Circuit City Boosts IT Infrastructure Effectiveness With Storage Virtualization

Overview

As a leading worldwide retailer of brand-name consumer electronics, PCs and entertainment software, almost every aspect of Circuit City relies on IT. The retailer wanted to build a scalable storage infrastructure that can keep pace with business growth; improve administrator productivity as well as application and server availability. Circuit City implemented a virtualized storage environment based on IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center software and IBM System Storage DS4500 and DS8100 disk storage systems.