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NCR Corporation announced that Pilot Flying J the largest operator of travel centers in North America is deploying its transformational store architecture solution NCR Software Defined Store NCR SDS enabled by Zynstra. This unique virtualization solution is a part of NCRs blueprint for the next generation retail store architecture. The architecture is purpose built for retailers and creates an agile infrastructure across the entire store reducing costs and optimizing operations for faster innovation.One of the biggest challenges retailers face today is dealing with legacy IT infrastructures that simply cant keep up with the pace of the business said David Wilkinson senior vice president and general manager Retail at NCR. With NCR Software Defined Store we help our retailers move to the cloud and add new applications and services quickly so that they can increase the speed-to-market while lowering their overall total costs of ownership.By virtualizing back and front office store technology with intelligent automation retailers significantly reduce the number of servers and hardware to maintain. This simplifies maintenance and enables systems to operate on multiple devices.Store IT infrastructures today are complex and expensive to maintain said Mike Rodgers chief strategy and information officer at Pilot Flying J. By shifting our store infrastructure from a hardware centric to a software focused approach we will be able to increase our speed-of-service quickly deploy upgrades across our network of stores and add new features and innovations including cloud-enabled services across our chain.NCR has been working with Zynstra a leading software provider focused at the retail edge to bring proven virtualization technology with centralized management to the retail industry.Retailers now have the ability to optimize their store technology costs while accelerating the digital transformation path for their stores. NCR will showcase this as well as its other digital first solutions at NRF 2019 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City at booth 3419 from January 13-15.