In today’s rapidly-evolving retail landscape, automation and orchestration have become pivotal in driving efficiency and innovation. The retail sector, especially during and post-COVID-19, has undergone a massive transformation. With technological advancements over the past five years surpassing those of the previous 25, retailers are leveraging automation to streamline operations and enhance customer experiences.

While the brick-and-mortar offline retail market is struggling post-pandemic, the online digital retail sector continues to experience strong growth as customers shift to online purchases. This increase in online customer activity is driving a steady increase in digital advertising spending running through the various Retail Digital Media (RDM) platforms. In 2024, ad spending in digital retail media advertising is projected to reach 136.07 billion U.S. dollars, with the bulk coming from the US market.

Monitoring the health and performance of IT infrastructure is crucial for practically all organizations to ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of an organization's technology environment. By continuously tracking servers, network devices, applications, and services, organizations can promptly detect and address issues before they escalate into significant problems and impact customers.

Most IT leaders realize that automating repetitive, low-level incident response actions is vital to multiple benefits. To name just a few, these include: In IT, incident response refers to addressing any event that disrupts normal service, application, security operation, or performance. Using AI and machine learning, automation addresses incident analysis, detection, investigation, triage, and response. The question is often identifying where to start or the best approach.

Observability and log management are needed for a strong IT strategy. Two essential tools for these purposes are AWS CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry. AWS Cloudwatch provides real-time data and insights into AWS-powered applications' health, performance, and efficiency. On the other hand, OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that assists developers in creating, gathering, and exporting telemetry data (such as traces, metrics, and logs) for analysis.

With the explosion of wireless devices in the workplace and emerging technologies like IoT going mainstream, enterprise Wi-Fi has become more pivotal than ever to maintain business productivity and growth. But as demand grows to securely connect employees and guests across office complexes, warehouses, educational institutions and even stadiums, IT teams grapple with significant complexity in pursuing robust and ubiquitous wireless coverage. What exactly is enterprise-grade Wi-Fi?