Retail

Modernize Retail IT. Maximize Customer Experience

Transform your retail IT with Nutanix and shift your focus to what matters most—delivering seamless, personalized customer experiences. Our unified platform supports everything from omnichannel marketing and inventory analytics to smart store innovations, helping you drive loyalty, boost revenue, and stay ahead in a fast-moving market.

Meet the demands of modern retail with Nutanix Hybrid Multicloud Platform

Centralize management across distributed locations

Deliver seamless infrastructure agility through centralized orchestration across datacenter, edge, and cloud—provision remotely and scale as needed.

Ensure performance and uptime everywhere

Deliver reliable service from store to cloud, even during peak demand periods like holiday rushes and flash sales.

Secure data and applications across platforms

Protect sensitive customer and business data with built-in security that exceeds U.S. Government and PCI DSS standards.

Simplify Cloud Native Kubernetes Management for Retail

Deliver smarter shopping experiences and operational agility with an open, end-to-end platform for AI and containerized applications. Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) and Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK) empower retailers to run modern workloads—from personalized promotions to predictive inventory—across stores, data centers, and the edge. 

Streamline app development at the edge

Develop, deploy, and scale apps across distributed environments—from individual stores to regional hubs. Enable containerization, microservices, and managed cloud services to simplify edge operations, reduce IT overhead, and accelerate time-to-market for innovations like smart checkout, localized promotions, and real-time inventory tracking.

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Flexible AI deployment—anywhere you operate

Run and manage AI apps and models wherever your retail business needs them—on-prem, at the edge, in public clouds, or even in air-gapped and dark sites. Deliver intelligent experiences like real-time shelf analytics, fraud detection, and personalized offers across distributed environments.

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Infrastructure as code—built for the edge

Define, manage, and version control infrastructure across distributed environments using code-based templates. Gain consistent, scalable, and automated deployments—from flagship stores to remote locations—reducing manual errors, operational costs, and time-to-market for edge-driven retail innovations.

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Optimize resources and control costs at the edge

Leverage auto-scaling and serverless technologies to dynamically allocate resources based on real-time demand across stores, warehouses, and edge locations. Fine-tune cloud spending while ensuring high performance for apps like smart checkout, inventory tracking, and localized promotions.

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Run your most demanding applications—analytics, commerce platforms, and omnichannel marketing—with confidence and speed

Nutanix delivers high-performance infrastructure for retail’s core systems, including Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, and other leading databases and app servers. Whether you're analyzing product trends, forecasting seasonal demand, managing inventory, or personalizing customer experiences, Nutanix gives you the flexibility to run workloads wherever they perform best—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. Our hybrid multicoud platform is the foundation for retail digital transformation, giving you the freedom to innovate without infrastructure limitations.

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Experience the Nutanix Cloud Platform and see how top retail brands are transforming their operations. From streamlining store IT and securing customer data to enabling real-time insights across locations—Nutanix helps retailers innovate faster, whether on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge.

Frequently Asked Questions

Nutanix simplifies store IT by consolidating compute, storage, and networking into a single platform. This reduces hardware footprint, improves uptime, and enables centralized management across thousands of locations—ideal for retailers with distributed environments.

Yes. Nutanix enables edge deployments with lightweight, resilient infrastructure that supports real-time analytics, inventory tracking, and personalized customer experiences—all while maintaining security and performance at remote sites.

Absolutely. Nutanix supports a wide range of legacy and modern applications including POS systems, ERP platforms, CRM tools, and even AI/ML workloads. Retailers can run these apps on-prem, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments with seamless integration.

Nutanix Central provides centralized orchestration and monitoring for hundreds or thousands of edge sites from a single console. With Foundation Central's zero-touch provisioning, retailers can remotely deploy and configure infrastructure without requiring technical staff at each location. Multi-cluster lifecycle management ensures consistent updates, configuration governance, and automated remediation across all stores.

Nutanix offers built-in security features like data encryption, microsegmentation, and role-based access control. These help retailers protect sensitive customer and transaction data across all environments—on-prem, cloud, and edge.

Yes. By consolidating infrastructure and automating operations, Nutanix reduces hardware, licensing, and management costs. Retailers benefit from lower TCO and faster ROI, especially in multi-site deployments.

Nutanix enables rapid deployment of new services—like mobile checkout, digital signage, and AI-driven personalization—without complex infrastructure changes. Retailers can scale quickly and respond to market trends with greater flexibility.

Nutanix supports hybrid and multicloud strategies, allowing retailers to run workloads on-prem, in public clouds (like AWS, Azure, etc), or in Nutanix’s own cloud services. This gives IT teams the freedom to choose the best environment for each application.