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To Cloud Out or to Edge In? That is the Question.

Retail TouchPoints

The growth of edge computing in retail is undeniable, as more devices are connected in stores and more applications depend on the data they create. Never has the role of a retail store infrastructure in delivering the customer experiences of tomorrow been so important. I’ll help you decide.

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Key Disaster Preparedness Takeaways for Retailers from an Eventful Summer

Retail TouchPoints

Solutions like these and others will continue to transform the selling and buying experience, but the underpinning power infrastructure must be protected to ensure IT systems can stay up and running. Check in with infrastructure. While summer temperatures might be finally dying down, hurricane season is still active.

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A Roadmap to Outsmart Bad Bots and Protect Customer Experiences This Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

Bad bots are software applications that run automated tasks with malicious intent. In some cases, bad bots can hit websites in such large volumes that it overwhelms the site’s infrastructure and takes the website or application down with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. What Makes a Bot ‘Bad’?

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Why innovation-driven e-commerce is incompatible with monolithic platforms

Inside Retail

IT and DevOps teams must carefully plan this integration because every time a change is made to the monolithic platform, the entire application and its tightly coupled dependencies must be updated in one go, even when adding a small feature such as a social commerce app. Innovation is at the core of their success and growth. .

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Strategies for Retailers to Weather the Storm this Hurricane Season

Retail TouchPoints

This will likely come as no surprise to many, as the COVID-19 pandemic led many retailers to adopt new digital strategies that made them heavily reliant on digital infrastructure and ecommerce. Hurricane Season 2022 is underway, and with it comes the looming threat of outages and downtime for retailers. The Impact of Downtime.

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Achieving Operational Simplicity with a Network Platform Approach

Cisco Retail

For today’s IT teams, managing distributed users, devices, applications, and workloads is not an easy task—especially when these disparate elements often connect across multiple infrastructures, as we… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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The Convergence of AI and Composable Architecture in Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

In order to answer questions about the available colors included in the latest product release, the bot needs access to product design files stored in the product lifecycle management (PLM) system and product descriptions or material lists from the product information management (PIM) system.