Tesco to update server to save costs

Tesco to update server to save costs The supermarket giant Tesco is looking to make alterations to its server ahead of the Christmas period in a bid to save costs.

A performance management system is being adopted by the company which will improve the mainframe computers.

The new adoption will enable the company to run 24-hour applications and reduce power usage, which in turn may drive down costs.

John Westnedge, IT director at Tesco, said: "Mainframe usage rises significantly at Christmas because of the volume of activity. So our initial aim is to achieve greater efficiency in MIPS [millions of instructions per second] usage to help avoid buying more processing power in the run-up."

He added that to "keep control of MIPS utilisation" the firm needs to be implementing efficient code from the starting point.

Mr Westnedge stated the changes were to improve performance issues before any new systems are introduced.

Tesco has recently been amid rumours that it plans to swap its supplier, with Retail Week reporting it may switch from the Teradata system to Netezza, which the supermarket denies.

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