Cisco Investments recently invited three experts in the field of retail operations for a panel discussion to explore how the industry has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and what operational changes must still be made to position themselves for success in a post-pandemic retail environment. The Panel consisted of Chris Todd, President and CEO at Theatro; Joe Skorupa, Editorial Director at RIS News; Amit Chetal, Retail Lead, Americas Industry Organization at Cisco; and hosted by Bill Farnsworth, Global Retail Business Manager at Cisco. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, its effects on the retail industry were swift, seismic and brutal in its disruption to small and large retail operations alike. Retailers now find themselves at a critical junction where high-stakes decisions made today about customer engagement models, communications with frontline workers and evolving business models will set the table for success or struggle when the new normal arrives.
Read MoreAt Cisco Investments, we constantly monitor market trends and build hypotheses around potential disruptions. As we were analyzing the memory and storage industry, we started to deep dive into the Storage Class Memory (SCM) space and developed an investment thesis on the potential convergence and implications of SCM technology on both the memory and storage markets, as well as the broader Data Center architecture. While the concept of marrying the speed and performance of memory with the persistence and scale of storage systems has been discussed for some time,
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