In addition to the specific use cases described in the previous sections, the Dell Validated Design for Retail Edge with Deep North has also been tested and validated to meet the following capabilities and requirements:
- High availability—Retailers want the ability for the Deep North application to continue operations with minimal downtime in the event of component failures so that insights and alerts continue to be generated in real time (where needed).
- Disaster recovery—Retailers want backup systems and mirroring. Existing capability depends on customer requirements for storage of videos (one to four weeks).
- Security—Retailers want the ability for the Deep North application to perform with the highest security protocols (ideally across multiple layers) to better prevent a breach on any attack surface in the store edge architecture.
- VMware compatibility—Retailers want to ensure that the Deep North Application is optimized to work on Dell hardware and the VMware edge compute stack so that they can manage deployment, orchestration, and virtualization from a single pane of glass.