Whitepaper (Toshiba): "Retail Hardening"

As retail businesses grow and expand, system reliability becomes even more important. Minor problems—so-called quick-fix failures that take only a few moments to resolve—can scale rapidly in frequency and severity as stores add checkout lanes or businesses grow. A headache for a retailer supporting ten point-of-sale systems becomes a more serious disruption for a business with 50 systems — and practically an unmanageable problem for an enterprise with 10,000 or more. Retailers can’t afford disruptions caused by common hazards. Retail-hardened solutions can help retailers maintain high uptime, complete more transactions, and minimize technical support costs.