From Shelf, to Cloud, to the World: Edge Computing is the New Frontier for Indian Retail

By Keith Basil, General Manager of Edge Computing Business Unit at SUSE

India’s retail landscape is in the middle of a digital revolution, and it’s on the edge – quite literally. While there’s been significant focus recently on cloud and AI, there’s an overlooked area that is much closer than you’d think: rapid digital modernization that could happen on the store floor, through to the edge.

Edge computing is a distributed computing model that brings computation and data storage closer to the source of the data, rather than relying on a centralized cloud or data center. Think of computation and data storage being in closer orbit with the source of data to reduce latency, save bandwidth, and enable real-time applications.

Edge computing isn’t just a buzzword anymore, it’s a strategic necessity that’s already separating the leaders from the laggards in ...