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6 ecommerce trends to watch

IBM Big Data Hub

Some forecasts suggest online retail might be responsible for half of all retail revenues by next year. In what McKinsey refers to as “the e-commerce catch-22,” many retailers with significant growth in ecommerce sales through 2020 and 2021 saw their margins decline.

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Cloud-based applications and services Cloud-based applications and services support myriad business use cases—from backup and disaster recovery to big data analytics to software development. The hybrid multicloud These days, most enterprise businesses rely on a hybrid multicloud environment.

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