Dave McCarthy

Group Vice President, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC

Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy, Manager, Cloud and Data Services Americas, Portworx

Saad Malik

CTO, Spectro Cloud

Bob Glithero

Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Portworx

Retail stores are becoming increasingly digital, distributed, and dependent on applications that must remain available even when connectivity isn’t.  Join experts from Portworx and Spectro Cloud, with guest insights from Dave McCarthy of IDC, for a discussion about building a resilient, scalable foundation for modern retail operations at the edge.

The session will explore how Kubernetes-native lifecycle management and data services can help retailers deploy and operate consistent infrastructure across hundreds or thousands of locations, all while keeping critical store applications and data available through WAN disruptions, node failures, and other real-world challenges.

We’ll also consider how the same foundation can support legacy VMs alongside modern containers and create a practical runway for emerging AI use cases such as local inference and computer vision. Attendees will gain perspectives on modernizing the retail edge at their own pace, reducing operational complexity, and preparing stores for whatever workload comes next.

What You’ll Learn

• How to build a resilient retail edge that keeps critical store applications and data available through connectivity disruptions and infrastructure failures.
• How to deploy, govern, and update consistent infrastructure across a distributed fleet without multiplying operational complexity or on-site intervention.
• How a common platform for VMs and containers can support modernization today while creating a foundation for edge AI use cases.