One of the key factors in a retail store today for financial success is controlling the fraud and shrink which erodes the profit margin. With losses running from 1% to 3% of sales, there is an immediate return on investment in IT solutions to impact this figure. Many solutions are available to help with fraud deterrents including digital video surveillance for access control, bottom of the basket, trips and falls validation, and employee sweethearting. These applications bring new requirements for analytical processing and image data into the local store. In most cases, these solutions will require multiple additional servers in the backroom. The Blade Center - S with multiple server blades and disk storage bundled into a single chassis provide an ideal integrated IT platform. This BC-S brings lower electrical power consumption characteristics with cost savings to the IT budget and also consolidates the system management so that common tools are available. With simple office power (110 volts), this system is easy to deploy and also provides redundance for networking, power supplies, and fans.
