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8 Considerations for Retailers Investing in AI-powered Video Surveillance

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8 Considerations for Retailers Investing in AI-powered Video Surveillance by Pure Storage Blog One might think retailers started the new year feeling festive after wrapping up a robust 2023 holiday shopping season. But a concurrent trend—rising retail shrink—is eroding retailers’ profitability and feelings of good cheer.

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Blazing-Fast SQL Backup and Restore for Retailers

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Retail is a transaction-centric industry. A retailer’s database environment is undoubtedly the company’s most important workload. Microsoft SQL Server is one of the retail industry’s most popular databases. Thousands of retailers rely on it. Fast Backup and Recovery with FlashBlade. How many is a lot?

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The State of Retail IT and Digital Transformation

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Without question, 2020 has been the biggest disrupter of the retail industry in modern times. The pandemic has forced years of planned retail digital transformation to take place in months, not years. While many retailers have attempted to make changes, only the most future-facing IT teams have succeeded. Staffing is costly.

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Four Key Backup and Recovery Questions IT Must Ask During Deployment

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In this submission, Skytap Technical Product Evangelist Matthew Romero offers four key backup and recovery questions that IT teams must ask during deployment. There are a number of ways a robust DR/backup system can mitigate the harm of a ransomware attack. Setting up backups for a core business application is a complicated task.

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Retailers Must Use SaaS Safely to Protect their Bottom Line

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In this feature, Zerto ‘s Global Director of Technical Product Marketing Kevin Cole offers commentary on why retailers must use SaaS safely to protect the bottom line. The retail industry is one of the largest users of business-to-business technologies like SaaS. For retailers in particular, a data breach can be extremely costly.

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Why Retail Needs as-a-Service Storage More than Ever

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It’s an important question for anyone managing IT infrastructure for the retail industry. While unexpected bursts in web traffic can strike any business, it’s becoming particularly common in retail. Retail has always been a bursty business, but it used to be more predictable. How do you prepare for unplanned events?

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4 Reasons Retailers Rely on Powerful Data Storage 

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We interact with retailers every day. What keeps retail running? Global retail leaders rely on Pure Storage®. Global retail leaders rely on Pure Storage®. Why do leading retailers look to Pure? Pure retail customers are thrilled with how easy FlashArray makes running their data-center storage. “I

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