Ocado is a revolutionary online supermarket, designed to change consumers' shopping habits and make supermarket shopping a quick and easy, stress-free and enjoyable experience. As a greenfield site, Ocado needed a technical infrastructure to support both its website and its internal business systems, and, the chosen platform was Sun Microsystems running Oracle 8 databases. Their infrastructure comprised a wide range of Sun servers and technologies, including a pair of clustered Sun Enterprise 10000 servers with StorEdge T3 storage arrays, which provide the key database serving environment.
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