How Retailers Can Move Smoothly — and Securely — to the Cloud

More and more retailers are moving to the cloud, finding it increasingly useful for trying innovative approaches to reaching consumers as well as its customary role of helping quickly locate and obtain critical customer and other data.

Walgreens is using the cloud to move further into performing healthcare services in-store — and even at customers’ homes. Online clothing retailer Zalando has been trying out a cloud-based technology that connects customers with what they're looking for (e.g., a pair of shoes). And more retailers are moving their point-of-sales systems to the cloud, putting real-time data at their fingertips to better gauge how their stores and inventories are performing.