Tesco invests in datacentre to expand its cloud offerings
Tesco invests in datacentre to expand its cloud offerings
Supermarket giant Tesco is to create a new datacentre in a bid to expand its cloud-based IT services to the US and central and Eastern Europe.
The chain has invested £65 million in the centre, which is to be hosted by datacentre operator Sentrum, and will be based in Watford, Hertfordshire.
The centre will be capable of providing the cloud-computing services necessary to support the growth of Tesco’s online shopping and online banking businesses located outside the UK.
Tesco IT director for infrastructure and operations, Tomas Kadlec, told Computer Weekly magazine, “This is a major building block in our ability to deliver technology to our customers and colleagues, and to expand our dot com and banking business.”
The new centre will enable the supermarket chain to vastly improve the resilience of the technology supporting its online banking and retail business.
Mr Kadlec went on to say, “Most critical systems already had redundancy built in, but not all systems, not to the level that we wanted. We are a retail bank. We are a dot com business.
A scheduled maintenance window on a Sunday afternoon on the mainframe was fairly regular in the past. It cannot operate that way in the future,” he added.
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