Costco currently operates 554 warehouses, including 407 in the United States and Puerto Rico,
76 in Canada, 21 in the United Kingdom, six in Korea, five in Taiwan, eight in Japan and 31
in Mexico. The Company also operates Costco Online, an electronic commerce web site, at www.
costco.com and at www.costco.ca in Canada.
Technologies:
Hardware/OS/Systems Environment
VMWare, VMWare ESX Servers, VMware ESXi Virtual Lab, Microsoft Windows 2008 Server,
Microsoft Commerce Server 2002, Microsoft Operations Manager 2000, Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008,
HP ProLiant 360 Severs, HP ProLiant 580 Servers, Cisco IOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Sun Solaris 9, Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Servers,
Citrix XenApp, Citrix Presentation Servers, IBM AS/400, IBM AIX, SCO OpenServer,
Juniper ScreenOS, Cisco Network Hardware, Ateb IVR,
Data Management / Business Intelligence
Oracle Hyperion, Oracle Document Capture, Oracle Imaging and Process Management,
Coremetrics, IBM DB2, Rational Method Composer, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database,
Networking / Information Security
BlueCoat Secure Gateway OS, Symantec Veritas Backup Exec, CommVault,
Development / Programming Tools
ASP.NET,
Enterprise Applications
Oracle Document Capture, Oracle Imaging and Process Management, Microsoft System Center
Virtual Machine Manager 2008, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, IBM Rational
RequisitePro, Rational Software Modeler, ClearQuest, IBM Rational Clearcase, IBM Cognos
Query Analyzer, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Paxonix’s PaxPro
software, i2 FreightMatrix,
Other Technologies, ITO Agreements, & Intel:TFC DynamicDesign, Shubert Ticketing,
Paxonix, i2 Freight Matrix, Averitt, WhatCounts Broadcaster, EnFlex eWebConnect,
PhotoChannel Network online photo services, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Condor Rx90,
PharmASSIST Symphony,
The Costco IS Division is divided into four main groups: AS/400 Application Development,
Customer Service and Systems Support, Client/Server and Internet Technologies, and E-Commerce
Application Development,
The company uses US Technology Resources of Aliso Viejo California for IT Outsourcing