Taking Retail to New Heights with Rackspace and Google Cloud Platform

Today’s retail market is more competitive than ever. With the rise in online and mobile shopping, increased competition, and heightened customer service expectations, retailers need to be more flexible not only in their offerings to customers, but also in their uses of technology. As a result, IT teams are looking to leverage the latest in infrastructure and management practices, including infrastructure-as-code models. In this webinar, you’ll hear about a retail customer who has been working through this modernization process over the past 18 months. During this conversation, we’ll discuss how this retailer was able to meet the operational demands of keeping POS systems available around-the-clock while pivoting to a new hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Google Cloud Platform and VMware. You’ll also learn how the customer settled on Google Cloud Platform as the right fit for their workloads. Join us for an insightful conversation as we explore this customer’s experience. You'll learn: -- Why retailers need to modernize their infrastructure to meet the demands of their marketing teams and sales -- Why not all applications are created equal and why the solution may require multiple types of infrastructure and a hybrid cloud -- Why transformations like this take time and resources, and how having a partner can help offset the burden on internal teams and reduce risk