Costco Uses Virtualization to Save Space, Reduce Costs, and Increase IT Agility
Costco Wholesale Corporation is a major international wholesale distributor with revenues approaching U.S.$70 billion. Costco began using virtualization technology in 2006 and has expanded its investment to include Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V™ and Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. With these tools, Costco can control IT spending, increase IT flexibility, and manage its virtualized server assets more efficiently.
The complexity of the Costco IT infrastructure has grown along with the business. In addition to the warehouses, the company maintains eight domestic and seven international offices, and the company’s worldwide network includes 13,000 HP Neoware thin client computers and nearly 9,000 end-user computers. The corporate data center in Issaquah is home to 1,200 servers and a series of AS/400 mainframe computers.
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