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According to McKinsey's The Next Normal: Shopping analysis, the the tech-enabled "store of the future" can double retailers' earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) margins and will be easier to operate. The Grid Dynamics team took warehouse-to-shelf automation, advanced analytics, and other optimizations as use cases for comparing Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 and T640 servers performance.
Think about it: "Stores of the future" need appropriate servers for the increased load
A tech-enabled "store of the future" can hardly solve typical retail in-store tasks without having servers that can handle significant Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (Al) workloads.
The Grid Dynamics team tested Dell EMC PowerEdge, the first server family built for complex, emerging workloads that require high performance and large storage, to check what the new generation technology had to offer to the retail sector.