Iomega has announced that India's premier lifestyle and fashion destination Shoppers Stop have successfully completed the implementation of Iomega's 2TB StorCenter ix2-200 network-attached storage (NAS) device across all Shoppers Stop stores in India. The new solution is helping Shoppers Stop create a virtual and tape free storage environment leading to enhanced efficiency of the IT support team.
"Before implementing the Iomega solution, we were taking back up of store data in tapes which was slow in nature. We were facing challenges in maintaining the huge inventory of tapes which kept increasing every year. Iomega's NAS solution helped us to simplify and streamline the data backup process at our stores. It has made our life much easier by eliminating the non-productive manual tasks of storing and keeping inventory of the tapes at each store or consolidating at a central location. Most of all, it has enabled us to get rid of the ever increasing inventory of tapes," said Gopakumar Panicker, Sr. Manager, Solutions & Technology Team, Shoppers Stop.
The Iomega desktop NAS architecture across 41 Shoppers Stop group stores and the additional 9 HyperCITY stores will deliver 50 terra bytes of mirrored storage space from 100 TB of physical storage and will enable Shoppers Stop to centrally manage and monitor through IP based storage devices.
"The solution helped us to improve resilience while eliminating non-productive tasks such as tape / inventory management and hence the team now focuses on more important aspects. The device has been standardized for all the existing stores and new stores. We are now looking at deploying the solution in other business units such as Crossword Book Stores and hope to accomplish this in the next few months", added Arun Gupta, Customer Care Associate & Group CTO, Shoppers Stop.
Praveen Sahai, Director of Sales - India & SAARC, Iomega, said "We are happy to be associated with the Shoppers Stop, which is among the most respected companies in the retail sector. We are committed to help Shoppers Stop become more efficient and productive by eliminating unreliable tape from their environment. Iomega's NAS solution is a perfect fit for retail chains and can significantly increase IT performance in such an environment by reducing manual tasks."
