burlington coat factory

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Burlington Coat Factory Lowers Costs, Boosts Reliability by Consolidating Systems on Grid

Since the 1990s, Burlington Coat Factory has made technological innovation a pivotal element of its business strategy for containing costs and boosting efficiency - an approach that has earned it widespread respect and recognition. As an innovator, the company has been quick to embrace beneficial new technologies. In one of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Burlington Coat Factory, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Databases, Enterprise Software, It service Management, Networking, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-04-01

Centralizing UNIX Authentication and User Provisioning With Oracle Internet Directory

Burlington Coat Factory BCF is a major garment retailer, based in the Northeast. BCF uses Linux workstations for conducting their core business with employees and customers. They use Star Office for their word processing needs and Oracle ERP and other applications also run on Linux and some Unix variants. There...

Tags: User Provisioning, Oracle Corp., Oracle Internet Directory, Burlington Coat Factory, Linux Workstation, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

White papers 2005-09-01

Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Centralizes Identity Management, Increases Security

Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retail chain, offering current, high quality designer merchandise at discounted prices. Burlington Coat Factory wanted to manage identities of all employee desktop users, users of server-based applications, and intranet portal users. The company wanted to strengthen IT security while decreasing...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Burlington Coat Factory, Identity Management, Portals, Authentication/Encryption, LDAP, Web Technology, Help Desk, Strategy, Internet, Security, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Management

Case studies

Novell Case Study: Burlington Coat Factory

Burlington Coat Factory is a national retail chain offering high quality, designer merchandise at up to 60 percent less than other department store prices. The company has been running its enterprise on Linux for several years, replacing the "Green screens" in its retail stores with Web-based applications. But the company...

Tags: Novell Inc., Burlington Coat Factory, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies

Server Clustering Is Tailor-Made for Burlington Coat Factory

Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a U.S. retail chain offering high-quality merchandise at prices up to 60 percent less than competitors. A retailer needs to migrate 40 Oracle-based applications from a proprietary UNIX platform to a lower-cost, highly scalable, available, flexible and manageable IT infrastructure using Intel architecture-based servers...

Tags: PolyServe Inc., Clustering, Burlington Coat Factory, Server Cluster, Intel Architecture, Servers, Hardware

Case studies

Additional Resources

Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality

Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...

Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-08-20