Zero-Touch Computing Platforms
for Retail
Overview
Retailers require the deployment of 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.
Penguin Solutions® zero-touch computing platforms run critical applications with built-in fault tolerance, ensuring up to 99.99999% platform uptime. Featuring application virtualization to consolidate key workloads, these platforms reduce the need for multiple servers and simplify operations without adding risk.
Easily serviceable by non-technical teams, Penguin Solutions zerotouch computing 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, retailers can to focus on optimizing operations and delivering differentiated customer experiences.
Enabling continuous retail operations with simple, protected, fault-tolerant computing
Key Features
• Zero downtime, zero data loss: Up to 99.99999% uptime ensures critical retail systems remain operational 24/7/365.
• Easy to service: Simplified information technology (IT) management with reduced maintenance and fewer hardware replacements required.
• Remote operations: Monitor and troubleshoot remotely, minimizing the need for manual inperson intervention.
• Proactive system health monitoring: Continuously monitors, detects, and resolves issues via 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.
Solve operational retail challenges with Penguin Solutions zero-touch computing platforms
Retail organizations today face several challenges when it comes to managing technology infrastructure, including:
Unplanned system downtime
Unexpected interruptions of POS, inventory management, access control, video surveillance, and other critical systems can lead to lost sales, poor customer experiences, and damage to brand reputation. Unlike standard off-theshelf computing, Penguin Solutions zero-touch computing platforms offer built-in redundancy and fault tolerance, ensuring up to 99.99999% platform uptime to keep retail applications running 24/7/365.
Real-time data capture and analysis
Retailers generate vast amounts of customer, inventory, and sales data that requires fast, local processing. Penguin Solutions advanced computing platforms bring compute power to the edge, enabling real-time analytics and faster decision-making. By storing and processing data locally, Penguin Solutions platforms can improve response times, inventory management, customer service, and sales operations—reducing stockouts, optimizing supply chains, and ensuring seamless, data-driven retail experiences without latency issues.
Costly on-premises IT management
Managing IT infrastructure across multiple retail locations can be complex and resource-intensive. Many retailers face challenges coordinating IT support, troubleshooting issues remotely, and ensuring system health. Penguin Solutions platforms simplify IT management by enabling remote monitoring and troubleshooting, reducing the need for manual intervention and costly on-site IT resources.
Scalable and standardized systems
Retailers often need to scale their IT infrastructure quickly to support growing business needs, especially when expanding to new locations. Unlike traditional systems that can be rigid and expensive to scale effectively, Penguin Solutions zero-touch advanced computing platforms are designed for easy scalability, allowing retailers to deploy them across multiple locations without adding significant IT overhead.
Penguin Solutions zero-touch computing platforms for Retail
Stratus ztC EdgeTM
Stratus ztC Edge 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
Stratus ztC Endurance is an innovative new family of fault-tolerant computing with intelligent predictive failover that enables 99.99999% platform and data availability. With the Stratus Automated Uptime Layer with Smart Exchange™ (Stratus AUL - Smart Exchange), Stratus 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.
Penguin Solutions 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, our platforms offer easy installation and deployment, requiring minimal IT resources.
With predictive capabilities, Penguin Solutions 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, Penguin Solutions provides comprehensive 24/7/365 remote monitoring, proactive support, system health add-ons, and managed services. These features maximize optimal performance and minimize customer effort, enabling retailers to stay focused on their operations without disruption.
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