Growing Demand for Edge Computing and Virtualization Solutions in the Retail Sector Propels Growth for Scale Computing

Scale Computing delivers innovation at the edge for businesses in the Quick Serve Restaurant, Convenience & Fuel, Grocery, and General Retail Industry as demand for VMware alternatives and edge computing solutions increases

INDIANAPOLIS, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Scale Computing, the market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced its ongoing momentum and success in the retail sector. The company's recent success is largely driven by an increased demand for both edge computing solutions and VMware alternative virtualization platforms across the retail sector, where Scale Computing is empowering businesses with resilient, high-performance IT infrastructure for in-store edge computing in Quick Serve Restaurants, Convenience and Fuel Retail, Grocery Retail, and General Retail.

Retailers are increasingly facing mounting demands for reliable, responsive in-store IT systems. Scale Computing has helped meet these needs with Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform), delivering powerful, autonomous infrastructure that enables retail operators to provide enhanced customer experiences, improve operational efficiency, and simplify IT management. As the retail industry accelerates toward AI-driven operations, Scale Computing provides a robust, resilient, and scalable edge computing foundation with purpose-built software and hardware integrations to support AI inference, complex workloads, and the distributed real-world environments where retail organizations need to operate—empowering them to confidently deploy AI workloads at the edge where real-time decision-making, low-latency processing, and operational simplicity are paramount for retailers.

Today, leading retail brands across retail sectors are partnering with Scale Computing to improve operations, increase uptime, and reduce IT management burdens:

• In the Quick Serve Restaurants (QSRs) industry, Scale Computing's solutions support international brands in maintaining continuous operations for critical applications like point-of-sale, kitchen display systems, and digital menu boards. Scale Computing's edge computing infrastructure is easily deployed in mobile environments, such as food trucks, where space and IT support are limited. This approach allows QSRs to enhance service reliability, reduce operational costs, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Scale Computing offers Convenience and Fuel Retailers a comprehensive IT solution designed to streamline infrastructure, enhance automation, and improve service reliability. Royal Farms, a leader in convenience and fuel retail with over 260 locations, recently implemented SC//Platform to increase deployment velocity, achieve significant improvements in operational reliability and efficiency, and modernize its IT infrastructure. Scale Computing Fleet Manager (SC//Fleet Manager) enables the retailer to monitor and manage infrastructure remotely, reducing the need for on-site IT interventions and improving service reliability.
• In Grocery Retail, SC//Platform helps retailers overcome obstacles arising from outdated IT setups, disjointed systems, and manual procedures to meet the expectations of today's discerning shoppers. Ahold Delhaize, a global grocery leader, partnered with Scale Computing to implement its platform across more than 6700 stores. SC//Platform enabled Ahold Delhaize to adopt innovative technologies like real-time pricing and AI-driven inventory management, enhancing both operational efficiency and the in-store shopping experience.
• Scale Computing helps General Retailers support demand for enhanced customer experience with flexible, reliable, secure, scalable, and resilient in-store infrastructure. Scale Computing recently partnered with a large national hardware store chain as well as with a leading national cosmetics chain to ensure uninterrupted access to point-of-sale, inventory, and customer service applications. By leveraging patented Scale Computing HyperCore™ for high availability, the retailers have been able to deliver a more seamless customer experience while reducing IT downtime and simplifying system management.

"Retailers today are seeking resilient, scalable, and simple IT solutions that enable them to deliver exceptional customer experiences and fuel business growth," said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-Founder, Scale Computing. "This is where the right edge computing solution excels, and we're proud to say that Scale Computing is delivering just that. With the adoption of AI accelerating, the need for distributed edge environments will only continue to grow, making SC//Platform even more critical in helping organizations run workloads reliably, securely, and close to where data is generated. With our platform's unmatched capabilities and growing ecosystem of partners, we are empowering retailers to embrace edge computing—today and in the future."

Together with its partners, Scale Computing is redefining the edge computing landscape and empowering businesses to thrive in a rapidly evolving retail industry:

• Scale Computing + Nasuni: Delivers an integrated solution that combines the simplicity and resilience of hyperconverged infrastructure with the scalability and efficiency of cloud-native file services. The partnership empowers organizations to modernize their infrastructure, reduce complexity, and better protect critical data—no matter where it lives—enabling retail enterprises to consolidate infrastructure while ensuring fast local file access at individual stores.
• Scale Computing + Simply NUC: Enables ease of doing business for distributed enterprises with small form factor edge computing devices for size-constrained locations. Currently, SC//Platform is being delivered across all Royal Farms locations on Simply NUC's right-sized hardware. Simply NUC is the leader in the small form factor hardware industry and continues to innovate alongside Scale Computing for expanded edge computing offerings for the retail sector and beyond.
• Scale Computing + Mako Networks: Addresses edge networking and PCI compliance challenges for the distributed enterprise is advancing growth in the retail vertical. The partnership offers edge computing and edge networking management with strong support that fuels bottom line growth for customers.
• Scale Computing + DUMAC. SC//Platform technology integrated into DUMAC's offerings delivers a cutting-edge virtualized environment and instance of the Point-of-Sale (POS) system, empowering retailers with unprecedented efficiency, reliability, and cost savings.

To learn more about the award-winning Scale Computing solutions for the retail industry and beyond, please visit scalecomputing.com.

About Scale Computing
Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, Scale Computing Platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime, even when local IT resources and staff are scarce. Edge Computing is the fastest-growing area of IT infrastructure, and industry analysts have named Scale Computing an outperformer and leader in the space, including being named the #1 edge computing vendor by CRN. Scale Computing's products are sold by thousands of value-added resellers, integrators, and service providers worldwide. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing Platform is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights and G2.

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