Competition is growing fierce for restaurants — and not all of it comes from other local dining establishments. With grocery stores and meal kit services offering additional convenient and affordable dining options for customers to choose from, and with many restaurants turning to faster and smarter automation methods to power their operations, now is the time for your restaurant to step up its game. Ultimately, what your restaurant needs to do is offer a complete experience for your guests. The only way to effectively do this is to understand the whole diner journey and how the decisions you make along the way affect it.

Organizations looking to implement desktop and app virtualization traditionally play a guessing game where storage is concerned. When considering local and physical storage, determining what would be necessary for the virtualized world is difficult and can be overwhelming. This is especially true when determining how virtualizing desktops will impact the storage architecture. Organizations risk over sizing their environment thereby wasting CapEx, or under-sizing and potentially ruining the user experience. Software-defined storage solutions, such as VMware Virtual SAN, provide simplified solutions with high performance data stores that offer fine-grained scalability with linearly-predictable performance as demand grows. Dell’s validated and certified desktop virtualization solutions incorporate vSphere and Virtual SAN, and provide a complete end-to-end solution that allows companies to grow and expand without large capital investments in SAN hardware.

In today’s global economy, companies are increasingly distributed. That puts IT in a precarious position, especially when it comes to disaster recovery. It can take days to restore branch operations. Branch converged infrastructure delivers local performance, stores data safely in the datacenter, and enables instant recovery. Learn how to recover faster, reduce risk, and save money.

In today’s global economy, companies are increasingly distributed. That puts IT in a precarious position, especially when it comes to disaster recovery. It can take days to restore branch operations. Branch converged infrastructure delivers local performance, stores data safely in the datacenter, and enables instant recovery.

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• Getting and staying in front of shoppers is key. 55 percent of respondents would be somewhat to very likely to click on a retargeted ad from a previous website they had visited. • Reviews make a difference to the consumer. Only 8 percent of respondents said online reviews never factor into their decision to purchase at a local retailer. • Relevant Facebook ads work for local retailers. Almost 1 in 2 respondents would be likely to click on a Facebook ad that aligns with their personal needs and interests.

With a network of more than 200 stores across Canada, Giant Tiger wanted to find a better way to align local financial and operational planning with central corporate objectives. Learn how they automated budgeting and forecasting processes and enabled store-based users to enter actual data directly into the system via a simple web interface to reduce the budgeting cycle by up to 85 percent, save approximately 220 hours per month for store-based staff, and receive a full return on investment within 24 months.

Competition is growing fierce for restaurants — and not all of it comes from other local dining establishments. With grocery stores and meal kit services offering additional convenient and affordable dining options for customers to choose from, and with many restaurants turning to faster and smarter automation methods to power their operations, now is the time for your restaurant to step up its game. Ultimately, what your restaurant needs to do is offer a complete experience for your guests. The only way to effectively do this is to understand the whole diner journey and how the decisions you make along the way affect it.