JD Sports
Delivering Effective Data Recovery
JD began trading in 1981 from a single shop in Bury, Manchester. Since opening its first London store in 1989 and branching out of its organic roots with further openings across the UK, JD now dominates the UK sports fashion and casual wear market with a portfolio of approximately 350 stores.
Objectives
- To achieve an effective disaster recovery strategy that mitigates risk and ensures business continuity
- To implement a secure high-performance IT architecture that is resilient and can flex and change with the needs of the business
- To reduce day-to-day operational IT tasks, and enable in-house IT resource to focus on identifying and implementing innovative value-add technologies and strategies
Solution
- 24/7 disaster recovery programme, using IBM’s Softek to synchronise all data, and enable near real time recovery of operations
- Migration of back-office applications and data, such as payroll and warehouse stock management, to primary and secondary hosted data centres
- Managed WAN between JD’s four warehouses and head office
Benefits
- A secure and resilient IT foundation supporting long-term business strategy
- Near real time recovery and reduced risk to 24/7 operations
- A solution that supports JD with PCI:DSS compliance
- A future-proof and flexible IT infrastructure, supporting new and emerging applications
