LPP SA Case Study: A Cut Above the Rest
Poland-based clothes manufacturer consolidates servers by approximately 79 per cent with Dell virtualized solution
In many parts of the world, there are still some great opportunities for retailers to develop. Eastern Europe is a good example, packed as it is with relatively young free-market economies offering plenty of growth possibilities. LPP S.A., headquartered in Gdansk, Poland, is a clothes designer, manufacturer and retailer that has taken full advantage of the country’s switch to democracy at the end of the 1980s. The company has developed six clothing brands, which include the Reserved, Cropp and House lines, and opened stores in 13 European countries.
Despite increased economic challenges across the world, LPP S.A. continues to expand and is planning to open stores in many territories. Not wanting to rely solely on organic growth, the business is developing through partnerships – most recently merging with another clothes retailer in Poland. Even though the business looks quite different from when it launched in 1993, its attitude towards efficient internal processes remains the same. And, in particular, the company still believes that IT is key to maintaining business effectiveness and driving development.
The company wanted to redevelop the existing disparate infrastructure to ensure continued support for day-to-day operations. Servers operating the UNIX environment were coming to the end of their support warranties and didn’t offer the power-efficient performance and scalability that more modern machines delivered. Plus, there wasn’t much space left in the datacentre to add more servers as the company continued to expand. Overall, LPP S.A. wanted to move to a new kind of architecture that delivered simplified IT and excellent business support from a relatively small server and storage footprint.
Read the full LPP SA Case Study.
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LPP SA Case Study: A Cut Above the Rest
Poland-based clothes manufacturer consolidates servers by approximately 79 per cent with Dell virtualized solution
In many parts of the world, there are still some great opportunities for retailers to develop. Eastern Europe is a good example, packed as it is with relatively young free-market economies offering plenty of growth possibilities. LPP S.A., headquartered in Gdansk, Poland, is a clothes designer, manufacturer and retailer that has taken full advantage of the country’s switch to democracy at the end of the 1980s. The company has developed six clothing brands, which include the Reserved, Cropp and House lines, and opened stores in 13 European countries.
Despite increased economic challenges across the world, LPP S.A. continues to expand and is planning to open stores in many territories. Not wanting to rely solely on organic growth, the business is developing through partnerships – most recently merging with another clothes retailer in Poland. Even though the business looks quite different from when it launched in 1993, its attitude towards efficient internal processes remains the same. And, in particular, the company still believes that IT is key to maintaining business effectiveness and driving development.
The company wanted to redevelop the existing disparate infrastructure to ensure continued support for day-to-day operations. Servers operating the UNIX environment were coming to the end of their support warranties and didn’t offer the power-efficient performance and scalability that more modern machines delivered. Plus, there wasn’t much space left in the datacentre to add more servers as the company continued to expand. Overall, LPP S.A. wanted to move to a new kind of architecture that delivered simplified IT and excellent business support from a relatively small server and storage footprint.
Read the full LPP SA Case Study.
