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 every location, ideal for retailers with distributed environments.
One Retail Platform, from Store Edge to Cloud
Run every store, unify retail data, and scale agentic AI on one operating model from the shelf edge to the cloud.
Modern Retail IT Starts with Nutanix
Retail’s Next Phase Runs on Yesterday’s Estate
Retail IT has to keep stores transacting and customer experiences running today while modernizing the foundation for data, automation, and AI.
AI Needs to Work at Retail Scale
AI ambitions are moving beyond pilots into production, exposing infrastructure that simply wasn’t built to support real-time retail operations at scale.
The Store Is Getting Heavier
More technology is moving into every store, and it has to run locally and resiliently, often without on-site IT or reliable connectivity, because the transaction cannot wait for the network.
Legacy Tech is Slowing Retail Agility
Aging, fragmented store and data center infrastructure ties up budget and technical resources that should be driving the next generation of frictionless shopping.
Fragmented Data Limits the Customer Experience
Modern commerce and AI depend on secure access to loyalty, transaction, inventory, and fulfillment data across stores, warehouses, data centers, and cloud.
What Modern Retail Has to Deliver
Retail modernization has to keep every location running today while creating the foundation for data, automation and AI to scale tomorrow.
Customer Innovation, Powered by Nutanix
One Operating Model, from the Shelf Edge to the Cloud with Nutanix
Nutanix delivers a consistent cloud-to-edge operating experience for distributed retail, with centralized control across store systems, data, modern applications, cloud, and AI wherever they run.
One control plane governs how apps, data, and AI run across the retail estate, from the flagship store to the dark store to the cloud.
Run Every Store Reliably
Keep POS, ERP, and store systems running through peak demand on resilient infrastructure designed to keep transactions flowing and customer experiences available.
- Zero-touch provisioning and centralized lifecycle management across every site, without requiring on-site IT
- Disaster recovery, network segmentation, and automated remediation designed to strengthen resilience and ransomware readiness
Unify Retail Data
Consolidate loyalty, transaction, inventory, and fulfillment data on a highly available foundation that supports order-to-shelf visibility, personalization, and retail media.
- Flexible file, object, database, and storage services spanning store, data center, and cloud, including support for external storage
- Encryption, microsegmentation, and role-based access controls for sensitive customer and transaction data
Scale Modern Apps and AI
Bring modern applications and AI into production across the retail estate, supporting use cases from computer vision and loss prevention to store operations and customer intelligence.
- Container and AI operations on a governed foundation, from data center GPUs to the shelf edge
- Private inferencing and efficient GPU utilization across retail environments, including computer vision at remote and disconnected sites
Extend to Cloud on Your Terms
Run store, data center, and public cloud environments on one operating model, using public cloud where it adds value without duplicating infrastructure or operations.
- Bridge on-premises infrastructure and public cloud with Nutanix Cloud Clusters
- Apply committed cloud spend and bring FinOps discipline to cloud costs
Experience the Nutanix Retail Platform
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Protect Customer and Payment Data
Security, Resilience, and Control by Design
For retail enterprises operating under continuous threat of data breaches and supply chain disruption, customer loyalty depends on how critical systems and sensitive shopper data are protected and governed. Nutanix integrates encryption, microsegmentation, point-of-sale security baselines, and supply chain controls, with standards and assessments spanning PCI DSS, SOC 2, CIS Benchmarks, ISO/IEC 27001/27018, and ISO 28000.
An Open Ecosystem for Retail & AI
Nutanix works across the POS, commerce, data, infrastructure, cloud, and AI ecosystem retailers already rely on, giving teams a flexible foundation to modernize without introducing another technology silo.
Get the Technical Guide for Retail AI
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Frequently Asked Questions
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 every site in the estate 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 Central provides centralized orchestration and monitoring for every site in the estate 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.
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.
Nutanix provides a governed path to production for AI, private inferencing, agent operations, and policy controls, on the same platform that runs the store estate. Retailers deploy AI for task management, replenishment, and customer intelligence on infrastructure the business already trusts, with efficient GPU utilization keeping AI economics predictable as deployments scale.
Yes, the hyperscalers are Nutanix partners, and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) lets retailers run the same platform on-premises and in public cloud, applying committed cloud spend and managing cost with built-in FinOps tooling. Retail estates run this hybrid model on Nutanix today, connecting cloud to the core and to every store site on one operating model.