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This past year has seen edge computing move from a fringe concept to mainstream adoption. There is a growing realization that edge computing is the key to building architectures

Amazon opened a new brick & mortar retail store in New York City. Overall, the store embodies the concept of omnichannel and generated quite a bit of press. What is it was all about, and what does it mean to retailers for the future?

Information Security has a relatively short history of 25 years. During most of that time, InfoSec professionals have operated under the doctrine of “defense in depth” but now we need to consider a new, more agile approach to defense in depth…

Anyone who works with Point Of Sale (POS), mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) or customer facing retail-based applications is aware of the significant changes that have been happening over the last decade; with major vendors, the core application stack, functionality and...

Next month the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect in Europe. While practices there are beginning to develop, we have nothing even close to this in the US and most American retailers still take limited steps to protect customer data.

ShopTalk is a relatively new technology conference for retail and is growing very fast to be probably one of the most important retail IT events on the calendar. ShopTalk’s focus is on innovation and challenges in retail – both online and brick & mortar. Many participants are aware of change and are willing to transform. Reliant is about providing a platform for making this possible.

SD-WAN products are the next generation replacement to the traditional fixed router/VPN appliance and provide strong central management of the network and are dynamically responsive to network changes and have the ability to prioritize traffic by application. This all maps very well to Reliant’s architecture.

There has been a lot of buzz around edge computing recently. The use of these micro data centers provide better performance through reduced latency among other benefits. The Reliant Platform is an excellent example of an edge computing application.

In 2018 we will be introducing a number of new product features and several exciting service offerings. Most immediately though, we’ve changed our message to the retail and hospitality industry.