Stratus Zero-Touch Computing Platforms for Retail
Enabling Continuous Retail Operations with Simple, Protected Fault-Tolerant Computing
Retailers must deploy increasingly complex on-premises software stacks to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and drive business growth. However, managing the complex ecosystem of point-of-sale (POS) systems, inventory management, and other critical applications can be challenging. To operate more efficiently, retailers need reliable, fault-tolerant platforms that provide continuous availability of key data in real-time.
Stratus zero-touch computing platforms run critical applications with built-in fault tolerance, ensuring up to 99.99999% platform uptime. Featuring application virtualization, they consolidate key workloads onto a single compute platform, reducing the need for multiple servers and simplifying operations without adding risk.
Easily serviceable by non-technical teams, Stratus platforms deliver highly reliable compute power for the critical applications needed to drive revenue, prevent data loss, and enhance operational performance. Also, with proactive health monitoring, Stratus platforms allow retailers to focus on optimizing operations and delivering differentiated customer experiences.
Stratus Key Benefits
Zero Downtime or Data Loss: Up to 99.99999% uptime ensuring critical retail systems remain operational 24/7.
Easy Serviceability: Simplified IT management with reduced maintenance and fewer hardware replacements.
Remote Operations: Monitor and troubleshoot remotely, minimizing the need for manual intervention.
Proactive Health Monitoring: Continuously monitors, detects, and resolves issues with self-healing mechanisms.
Local Data Processing: Capture and process data instantly at the edge of operations for faster decision-making.
Workload Consolidation: Run virtualization to consolidate dozens of applications onto a single fault-tolerant platform.
Solving retail operation challenges with Stratus zero-touch computing
Retail organizations today face several challenges when it comes to managing technology infrastructure.
Unplanned system downtime: Retail operations rely on uninterrupted POS, inventory management, access control, video surveillance, and other critical systems. Downtime leads to lost sales, poor customer experiences, and damaged brand reputation. Unlike standard off-the-shelf computing, Stratus zero-touch computing platforms offer built-in redundancy and fault tolerance, ensuring up to 99.99999% platform uptime to keep retail applications running 24/7.
Costly on-premises IT management: Managing IT infrastructure across multiple retail store locations can be complex and resource-intensive. Many retailers face challenges coordinating IT support, troubleshooting issues remotely, and ensuring system health. Stratus platforms simplify IT management by enabling remote monitoring and troubleshooting, reducing the need for manual intervention and costly on-site IT resources.
Real-time data capture and analysis: Retailers generate vast amounts of customer, inventory, and sales data that require fast, local processing. Stratus platforms bring compute power to the edge, enabling real-time analytics and faster decision-making. By storing and processing data locally, Stratus platforms can enhance response times, inventory management, customer service, and sales operations—reducing stockouts, optimizing supply chains, and ensuring seamless, data-driven retail experiences without latency issues.
Scalable and standardized systems: Retailers often need to scale their IT infrastructure quickly to support growing business needs, especially when expanding to new locations. Traditional systems may be too rigid or expensive to scale effectively. Stratus zero-touch computing platforms are designed for easy scalability, allowing retailers to deploy them across multiple locations without adding significant IT overhead.
Stratus zero-touch computing platforms for Retail
Stratus platforms help retailers run critical applications reliably, process data in real-time, and minimize unplanned downtime and data loss, even in remote, hard-to-reach locations.
Stratus ztC EdgeTM is a secure and highly automated Edge Computing platform uniquely engineered to run critical retail applications and complex software stacks without downtime or data loss. With built-in virtualization and fault-tolerance, retail organizations can run multiple applications—such as POS,
inventory management, fuel controllers, virtual firewalls, and video surveillance— concurrently with confidence, turning data into actionable insights. For easy manageability, the platform provides automated health monitoring, alerting, failover, and resynching to enable remote operation without requiring human monitoring or on-site IT support.
Stratus ztC EnduranceTM is an innovative new family of fault-tolerant computing with intelligent predictive failover that enables 99.99999% platform and data availability. With its Automated Uptime Layer with Smart Exchange™, ztC Endurance delivers predictable, protected performance by leveraging Intel RAS capabilities, embedded hardware and software security, and increased manageability and serviceability via a modular architecture. The Stratus ztC Endurance 7100 gives retailers a strategic advantage with proven performance for AI classification, delivering real-time insights for AI image classification workloads.
Why Stratus zero-touch computing?
Stratus zero-touch computing platforms are secure, highly automated, and easy to service, delivering continuous and reliable retail operations without costly downtime or data loss. Designed for simplicity, Stratus platforms offer easy installation and deployment, requiring minimal IT resources.
With predictive capabilities, Stratus platforms continuously monitor system health, resolve issues through self-healing mechanisms, and ensure critical workloads stay operational. An intuitive management console allows both local and remote staff to set up and manage systems with ease and flexibility.
To further support retailers, Stratus provides comprehensive 24/7 remote monitoring, proactive support, system health add-ons, and managed services. These features help maintain optimal performance and minimize customer effort, enabling retailers to stay focused on their operations without disruption.
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