Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Edge Essentials Delivers Unparalleled Elastic Cloud-like Compute at the Edge, Enabling Business Transformation like Never Before
The unparalleled AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) Edge Essentials architecture is the industry’s first edge-to-cloud solution that includes both cloud-like east-west computing and north-to-south cloud support via Kubernetes at the edge, across both Linux and Windows. It enables both existing and new applications with support from the edge nodes to the cloud. The solution allows enterprises to deploy new use cases that will transform their business faster and more affordably with a cloud-native architecture that makes use of existing infrastructure while supporting existing apps.
AKS Edge Essentials for Retail
When considering today’s constantly evolving consumers expectations, it is clear that instore, online, and mobile device experiences need to be expanded and adapted quickly and seamlessly to maintain customer attention. To achieve this, organizations need to adopt distributed architectures that can extend device performance and integration capabilities, allowing the deployment of lightweight and scalable approaches such as the containerization capabilities of AKS Edge Essentials.
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AKS Edge Essentials Reference Solution Design for Cold Chain Monitoring, Customer Insights and Intelligent Signage Use Cases
Transforming retail operations and customer experience with vision AI cold chain monitoring, AI-based customer insights and intelligent signage applications can make a significant difference to business outcomes. You can fast track retail transformation with AKS Edge Essentials unparalleled elastic cloud-like compute at the edge. Bypass the siloed capabilities of historical fixed function edge compute by opting for a flexible distributed architecture that can extend device performance and integration capabilities, allowing the deployment of lightweight and scalable approaches. Adopting the containerization approach to building and deploying software, can enable the efficient and scalable rollout of applications on edge devices in a distributed computing environment.
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Arrow, Microsoft, Lenovo, Intel®, and Scalers AI have partnered to develop a cold chain monitoring, intelligent signage, and customer insight reference solution. The reference design demonstrates how AKS Edge Essentials can be leveraged to deploy, scale, and manage vision-based signage, customer insights, and cold chain retail monitoring with custom Linux and Windows-based containers using lightweight Kubernetes distribution. The design can act as a starting point for many other retail use cases. Fill out the form above for free solution design access and save hours of development time!
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