Purpose-built Edge Scale Technology that Delivers Efficiency, Speed, Reliability and Control – and Lowers Risk. The Zynstra Retail Edge software solution is comprised of three integrated components: Intelligent Control Plane, Intelligent Edge and Intelligent Edge Client.
The Intelligent Control Plane makes it easy to commission, manage, control and update hundreds or thousands of sites across your entire edge estate – treating it as a holistic, integrated entity, rather than individual, independent sites.
The Intelligent Control Plane takes on the day-to-day heavy lifting – all patches and updates are automatically applied and all edge infrastructure is continuously tested to ensure everything is running correctly. And if you roll out a new site, the Intelligent Control Plane makes sure everything goes smoothly.
“This virtualization technology drives change in the store and is a key part of our business strategy. By removing hardware dependencies we gain more flexibility, improved TCO and standardization of stores with better manageability
and configuration.”
What is the economic value of the Software Defined Store?
“Store IT infrastructures today are complex and expensive to maintain. By shifting our store infrastructure from a hardware centric to a software focused approach, we will be able to increase our speed-of-service, quickly deploy upgrades across our network of stores and add new features and innovations including cloud-enabled services across our chain.
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In general terms, the edge refers to all compute activity that takes place outside the datacenter. In a retail context, these workloads typically take place in stores, branches, Quick Service Restaurants, or other retail outlets.
With ever increasing demand to roll out new customer experiences, while reducing costs and fighting off security threats the battleground has moved to the edge.
Our Intelligent Automation enables you to build and test centrally, and then automatically deploy across the network of stores in one coordinated action.
A virtualized and hyperconverged server that sits outside the datacenter, in a store or branch, providing compute, storage and network capability optimized for a hostile edge environment.
Edge scale means designed from the ground up for the environment that exists at the edge, rather than scaled down datacenter technology.
The capability to centrally manage the provisioning, patching and configuration of 100s or 1000s of retail edges, without costly manual intervention at the edge.