DATA CENTRES
computing is already helping the retail industry in many ways from reducing infrastructure , storage , and computing costs to enabling real-time access to operational and inventory data .” Edge adoption in the retail sector , they continue , will unlock benefits including efficient inventory management , data security , deploying AI / ML applications at the store level for analysis and decision making , and improving the overall customer experience .
A New Frontier for the Edge Edge computing has been a part of the retail sector for years . From security systems to inventory management , a certain degree of onsite compute has always been a part of the industry . Now , however , as retailers look to take advantage of the kind of higherintensity , low latency solutions that are becoming available , they ’ re looking for new ways to keep up with the demands placed upon their systems .
From the OCP ’ s perspective , the partnership with Target represents a golden opportunity to explore the ways in which the kinds of edge techniques which are usually applied to the cloud and telecom industries can be leveraged in this new frontier . “ This edge environment presents a lot of opportunities and challenges . Smaller
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