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Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service

CIO

The rural lifestyle retailer, with more than 2,200 stores across the US, caters to the needs of rural residents with a wide variety of products on its shelves. The use of AI in the retail sector is in the experimental stage, and many retailers have gotten only as far as using AI-powered chatbots on websites, Kodali adds.

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AutoNation Improves Performance, Saves Millions With Prisma SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks

Customer satisfaction is critical for all businesses, particularly when it comes to retail. However, this can be challenging when retailers rely on legacy Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) connections backhauled through corporate Infrastructure. Digital Transformation to Elevate Efficiency and Future-Proof Investments.

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A Leader in the 2020 Gartner WAN Edge Infrastructure Magic Quadrant

Palo Alto Networks

Today, I am honored to announce that Palo Alto Networks CloudGenix SD-WAN is recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner WAN Edge Infrastructure Magic Quadrant (MQ). After all, earlier this year, CloudGenix was named a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for WAN Edge Infrastructure.

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How technology is enabling Melbourne Airport’s growth

CIO

While Melbourne Airport employs approximately 500, there could be up to 20,000 people working at the airport on any given day working for other stakeholders including airlines, retailers, Border Force, and the Australian Federal Police. It’s really about the critical nature of the operation,” he adds.

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The Only Leader in Single-Vendor SASE. Period.

Palo Alto Networks

SASE is the convergence of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and security delivered as a massively distributed cloud service. These offerings use a cloud-centric architecture and are delivered by one vendor. with the integration between Prisma SD-WAN and Prisma Access. Ken Ogami, senior vice president and CIO U.S.,

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

Some, like the approximately 100 outlets operated by farm and agriculture supply retailer Peavey Mart, had redundant access to other internet providers already in place. As a result, once the stores were impacted by the outage, they automatically failed over to their secondary ISPs through our SD-WAN enabled infrastructure.”.

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SASE Reality Check: Security and SD-WAN Integration Journey

CIO

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. When networking and network security requirements are managed by separate IT teams independently and in parallel, do you achieve the best architecture for digital transformation?

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