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whitePaper | June 8, 2022

Edge computing in the retail industry plays a key role in transforming our world. Today, organizations in the retail industry want to deliver new services and digital experiences for their employees and customers close to the locations where data is produced and consumed. These organizations want to combine data originating at the store with machine learning (ML), analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to help improve operations, become more agile, and capture next-generation business opportunities. To ensure success, organizations require retail edge infrastructure solutions that enable fast deployment of new IT services, simplified IT management, and security of edge infrastructure at scale.

whitePaper | November 14, 2019

The intended audience for this paper is IT decision makers and line-of-business owners that are tasked with transitioning their workforce into a modern place of work—the Digital Workspace. According to Gartner, “The digital workplace enables new, more effective ways of working; raises employee engagement and agility; and exploits consumeroriented styles and technologies.” The insights presented here will be helpful for executing a digital workspace transformation strategy.

whitePaper | July 12, 2022

As virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has become more prevalent, point solutions have emerged to address associated delivery issues. These solutions burden IT infrastructure, but with little benefit. Organizations need a solution that can offer added security, network performance improvements, and vendor-specific optimizations, all while improving architecture for non-VDI systems.

whitePaper | December 22, 2021

Choosing the CPU for enterprise applications is not an easy task, whether you use a simple quick calculation to determine your needs or perform exhaustive capacity planning with analytical model simulations for workloads and their future growth. Often, lack of details (or inaccurate information) about the input data and the workload type leads to uncertain estimations about the rightsizing of the hardware (CPU type, core count and clock speed, memory capacity, etc.), leading to suboptimal resource utilization.

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

This paper is intended to introduce the definition of a Data Fabric solution from a business perspective, the technical capabilities required to instantiate the solution, and a reference architecture representative of the solution.

whitePaper | May 31, 2021

Read this paper for three ways that GPUs can add value to your virtualized as well as stories from customers about how their businesses have benefited from GPUs.