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In today’s rapidly-evolving retail landscape, automation and orchestration have become pivotal in driving efficiency and innovation. The retail sector, especially during and post-COVID-19, has undergone a massive transformation. With technological advancements over the past five years surpassing those of the previous 25, retailers are leveraging automation to streamline operations and enhance customer experiences.

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is here. If you’ve been following the meteoric rise of companies like NVIDIA, you understand that the AI revolution isn’t just a passing hype cycle. To train complex models like Large Language Models (LLMs), organizations are turning back the dial to private data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure — which requires thousands of servers all working in harmony.

Did you know CFEngine has Macros? They were first introduced in CFEngine 3.7 (back in 2015), and more have been introduced since then. Macros are convenient for preventing the parsing of a section of the policy. It is handy for protecting older binaries from getting tripped up on newer syntax the agent does not understand. Let’s take a look. Currently there are 8 macros. You can find examples of use within the Masterfiles Policy Framework.

Following the announcement of System Center 2025, it’s clear the suite isn’t going anywhere, and many organizations are considering moving to a newer version to capitalize on the 64-bit update to the application in the 2022 release of Orchestrator. For organizations looking to upgrade from earlier versions of Orchestrator such as 2016 or 2019 to System Center Orchestrator 2022, there are several things to be aware of before migration, as Orchestrator 2022 has a major change to the application.