By Aimee Chanthadavong  August 4, 2014

 

Summary: A year into its IT transformation strategy, Woolworths managed to establish a new convergence infrastructure that will be the basis for its future hybrid cloud environment.

 

As Australia's largest, and the world's 15th largest retailer, Woolworths is responsible for turning over AU$58 billion worth of annual revenue on a target market of 27 million, and given that it's constantly reliant on perishable goods, it takes a lot of work and effort for the company to achieve those results.

 

For Woolworths head of infrastructure Matt Chamley, who spoke at the EMC Forum 2014 in Sydney, his responsibility has been to be mindful in how the IT department could create an environment that would allow the company to receive the greatest return.

 

With that mind, two years ago Woolworths signed an agreement with Wipro to assist the company with overhauling its monstrous reference infrastructure. While it was built on known brands including Cisco, EMC, VMware, Brocade, and HP, Chamley said there were complications with its reference infrastructure because it was a manually built and engineered architecture.

 

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