In this episode, Mike Hulme, Senior Director, Marketing, VMware Cloud, details the unique characteristics of today’s retail climate which define the application portfolio and related infrastructure. Mike explains characteristics such as the need for flexibility to address seasonality, and the many different ways that different types of retailers are using applications across their businesses. Mike discusses the impact of business continuity and disaster recovery considerations on application evolution and infrastructure strategies. Mike concludes with an application modernization success story with telco retailer T-Mobile.