Intelligent Automation at the
Retail Edge
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.
Intelligent Control Plane
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.
Intelligent Edge
The Intelligent Edge is a virtualized edge server that sits in your retail store. It’s an edge scale, hyperconverged core, comprising virtualized compute, storage and networking that’s deployed on-site. It provides a platform to operate your in-store front and back office applications because it contains a local instance of the Intelligent Control Plane, making it possible to control and monitor these workloads. It also provides the security and PCI DSS compliance required in a retail environment. It can run local applications in the store, such as RFID, Payments, CCTV or managers back office PC. And it includes optional on-site infrastructure services, such as Firewall, File Share, Local Networking and Business Continuity capabilities.
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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Our Virtualized Point of Sale software is built on our Intelligent Edge capability and delivers specific applications for retail stores that break the hardware/software linkage for increased ROI. It reduces the store IT bill of materials and operating costs significantly, while increasing performance, reliability and security. The applications are available for new and old POS systems and peripherals:
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Retail Edge?
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.
Why is Retail Edge so important?
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.
How does your solution enable me to roll out new sites?
Our Intelligent Automation enables you to build and test centrally, and then automatically deploy across the network of stores in one coordinated action.
What is an edge server?
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.
What is edge-scale?
Edge scale means designed from the ground up for the environment that exists at the edge, rather than scaled down datacenter technology.
What is Continuous Intelligent Automation?
The capability to centrally manage the provisioning, patching and configuration of 100s or 1000s of retail edges, without costly manual intervention at the edge.
