In today's competitive, margin-driven retail environment, effective performance monitoring is vital to ensuring that your IT operations are squarely aligned with your business goals.
But performance monitoring can be especially daunting for retailers whose networks span multiple stores, warehouses, and other geographically separated facilities.
Sponsored by CITTIO and now available on demand, this TechRepublic Webcast features Jamie Lerner, Founder & CEO of CITTIO, who discusses the top trends in retail operations. Listen to learn best practices for gaining a reliable, ongoing view of IT performance across multiple sites, time zones, and systems. Topics include:
- Best practices for managing distributed retail networks
- How the proliferation of Point-of-Sales (POS) systems, IP-enabled bar code scanners, and Wireless Access Protocol (WAP)-enabled devices are impacting retailers
- Must-have capabilities for monitoring and managing disparate systems and technologies
- Real-world examples of how retailers are solving the problems associated with operating distributed data centers
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