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| JD’s Solid IT Foundations JD Sports has entered into a 5 year managed service contract with Pasporte, a provider of managed ICT outsourcing to the mid-market. The managed service will upgrade, future-proof and secure the retailers' IT infrastructure, and support JD on the journey towards PCI DSS compliance. Inclusive of the £2m deal is the migration of JD's back-office applications and data, such as payroll and warehouse stock management, into a hosted environment; the implementation of a 24/7 disaster recovery programme to enable near real time recovery; and managed WAN between the retailers' 4 warehouses and head office. The migration of JD's applications was successfully piloted over the Christmas trading period, proving Pasporte's migratory approach at peak transaction volumes. Using IBM's Softek – a non-intrusive and dynamically configured replication tool - Pasporte will complete the migration of JD's' estimated 3Tb of data in May 2008. Softek will also be deployed to synchronise all data between Pasporte's primary and secondary hosted datacentres in real-time, to ensure zero downtime for JD's operations. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |