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The race to customer
leadership in retail Digital
Transformation
Retailers are racing to
adopt Edge Computing and
customer-facing technologies
to enhance the customer
experience. Vertiv and
global media company,
DataCenterDynamics,
interviewed 50 managers and
executives from the world’s
largest retail companies to
profile the progress of retail
Digital Transformation.
The interviews carried out by Vertiv
and DataCenterDynamics profiled
the progress of retail Digital
Transformation. It showed some key
findings. Edge Computing is going to grow
over the next two years with companies
turning to cloud hosting for capacity, with
a 33% greater adoption for data center
capacity supporting stores and a 87%
greater adoption for data center capacity
supporting distribution centers.
In the next two years, the data center
footprints will change, as there will be an
expected 20% increase for online retail, a
10% increase for distribution, a 27% decline
for corporate activities and just a 0.9%
decline for in-store activities.
All of the respondents said that online is
more critical and a large proportion, 91%,
said distribution is more critical, while just
23% said in-store is more critical.
Of the retailers questioned, 26% are
nascent, which means they are lagging
in Digital Transformation. These retailers
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