MINNEAPOLIS — Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., announced Monday that Target here is running business-critical workloads for all its retail stores on 15,000 virtual machines using Microsoft virtualization and management technologies designed to provide greater IT agility and economies of scale.
Target has virtualized inventory, point-of-sale, supply-chain management, asset protection, in-store digital media and more on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center. By implementing virtualization at its stores, Target has 8,650 fewer physical servers to maintain, power and refresh.
