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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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Helping Achieve Sustainable IT in the Retail Industry

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Everywhere you look in the retail industry, the business landscape is changing. Omnichannel marketing is revolutionizing how retailers reach customers. Another topic shaking up retail is sustainability. Another topic shaking up retail is sustainability. But how much progress are retailers making?

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Infrastructure as a Service Makes a Difference for Retailers

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The Secret Retailers Need to Know? Infrastructure as a service is the secret that more retailers need to know about. The IDC report, “ Retail Industry Cloud Investment Guide for 2022” (download it for free), notes that the largest global retailers increased infrastructure as a service spending by 40% from 2020 to 2021.

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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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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. Data protection and recovery should be a priority for retail organizations.

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The SSD Trap: How a Storage Solution’s Reliance on SSDs Can Impact You (Part 1 of 2)

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are needed to build a system to meet any given performance and capacity requirements. Let’s take a look at each of them: SSD design is driven by the volume of the retail consumer markets rather than enterprise requirements. The amount of DRAM required in larger capacity SSDs is a limiting factor when you need to fit into a 2.5”

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Breakthrough Award Winner: THG, Our G.O.A.T. Winner for EMEA 

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It also supports THG’s sustainability initiative—THG x Planet Earth—to become carbon neutral by 2030: migrating to energy-efficient Pure Storage systems will reduce power consumption by up to 80%, even as capacity expands.

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