Welcome to Spectro Cloud Webinars — your home for every live session and on-demand replay, all in one place. 

Our promise to you: each episode brings practical, real-world conversations on the things your teams are tackling right now, from edge deployments to AI workloads and everything in between. 

You’ll hear directly from Spectro Cloud experts, along with the partners and customers building, running, and scaling these environments every day. 

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In distributed environments where every second counts, cloud native and edge technologies deliver faster, smarter, and safer experiences. But for regulated companies, strict compliance requirements create significant concerns, including around data sovereignty, security and access control, data validation and integrity, and disaster recovery, when operating at the edge. In this webinar, Matt Grubis, Executive Chief Engineer at GE HealthCare Patient Monitoring Solutions, Justin Barksdale, Distinguished Solution Architect at Spectro Cloud, and TNS Host Chris Pirillo explored how GE is using cloud native and edge technologies to deliver better patient care experiences for 1 billion patients — all while meeting the rigorous compliance demands of regulated environments. They discuss how GE’s approach to software infrastructure enables agility, consistency, and compliance across thousands of connected medical environments.


How Highly Regulated Industries Operate Successfully at the Edge

Delivering digital experiences consistently across thousands of locations is key to customer satisfaction and operational excellence. And achieving that level of service demands a new kind of architecture: modular, portable, and built edge-to-cloud. Global retailer YUM! Brands has solved the challenge by deploying next-gen edge platforms to support AI/ML workloads, boost uptime, and drive agility across its more than 40,000 locations thanks to Spectro Cloud solutions. From AWS re:Invent, Ryan Good of YUM! Brands and Justin Swagler of AWS joined our founder, Alex Williams, to dig into how to enable centralized management and scalable, production-grade infrastructure to bring innovation closer to customers — whether you’re in retail, industrial, manufacturing, or any type of business that operates in remote locations.


Scaling Edge Platforms to Thousands of Global Locations

Margins in quick-serve, casual dining, and multi-unit restaurants are tight. Even one lost hour due to a tech outage during a lunch rush or busy weekend night can have a massive negative impact.

A strong edge computing deployment is the foundation for your POS, and so much more. It keeps orders flowing, kitchens firing and guests smiling, even when the WAN drops.

Join Spectro Cloud and our customer High Touch Technologies to hear how they successfully deployed their Nigel enterprise restaurant management software across dozens of locations, unlocking value that every server and franchise owner and operator can feel.

We’ll distill lessons from years of real-world edge roll-outs — including multinational chains you know — and show you how to:

Design for downtime: build highly available edge clusters so your POS keeps humming, even if the internet doesn’t.

Ship faster, safer: use zero-touch provisioning and A/B upgrades to open new stores — or swap hardware — without sending a specialist engineer.

Delight guests: rapidly iterate new software features, including AI-driven experiences right at the counter.


Serving up resilience and new guest experiences at the restaurant edge

Defense and many other public sector missions often need cloud-native applications to run in locations the public cloud can’t reach. AWS architect Rob Goodwin joins Spectro Cloud architects to show how you can extend Amazon EKS to the tactical edge using AWS Outposts, combined with Spectro Cloud’s VerteX Kubernetes platform.

This webinar is ideal for federal IT leaders and mission owners looking to extend modern infrastructure beyond the data center. You’ll leave with a clear, actionable roadmap for deploying secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters anywhere the mission demands — powered by AWS and Spectro Cloud.

You'll also learn about:

*   Building blocks of AWS Hybrid Edge Services and how Outposts fit in the DOD landscape
*   Buying COTS hardware through AWS streamlines procurement and compliance
*   Policy-driven cluster lifecycle management that makes edge nodes easy to replace and standardize
*   Cost-optimization tactics that preserve security across environments
*   A real-world “cloud-to-edge” DOD use case


Enabling Mission-Critical Edge for DOD with AWS + Spectro Cloud: Secure, Simple Kubernetes Anywhere

Join us for a hands-on deep dive into building rock-solid resilience for modern Kubernetes environments.

We’ll start with the must-know foundations of Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery and compliance, then explore real-world pitfalls that simple snapshots or open-source Velero can miss.

You’ll learn how deploying CloudCasa through Spectro Cloud Palette delivers enterprise-grade, policy-driven protection across multicluster environments.

Next, we’ll tackle an emerging challenge: safeguarding virtual-machine workloads running on Kubernetes through KubeVirt solutions like Palette VMO. We’ll share the experiences of a large software company that recently went through this exact situation.

We’ll wrap up with a live demo showcasing deployment, backup, and recovery for both containers and virtual machines — so you leave with clear, actionable strategies you can use in your own Kubernetes environment.


Kubernetes backup & recovery deep dive: DR and VM protection with Spectro Cloud Palette & CloudCasa

Running Kubernetes clusters across public clouds, data centers, bare metal and the edge is now the norm — but it multiplies operational risk and toil.

In this fast-paced session, experts from Spectro Cloud and TeraSky share field-tested approaches to tame multi-cluster, multi-cloud fleets, from Day 0 design through Day 2 optimization.

We’ll cover:

*   The adoption trends in K8s, including how GPU-heavy AI and edge workloads are reshaping your roadmap
*   Strategies to control cost, security and drift at enterprise scale
*   Cautionary tales and quick wins from Fortune 500 Kubernetes deployments

Walk away with practical guidance you can apply immediately to run Kubernetes with confidence in any environment.


Mastering enterprise Kubernetes: real-world strategies

Across DOD and federal civilian agencies, the spotlight is on cost efficiency and radical modernization. For CIOs and IT leaders, midway through a multi-year evolution towards modern cloud native practices, this is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because there’s never been more opportunity to drive change; a curse because with change comes risk.

By running VMs side-by-side with containers, we’ve seen organizations achieve cost savings not only in licensing and infrastructure deduplication, but also through harmonized processes and governance and greater agility to meet changing mandates.

In this webinar, we'll discuss static, legacy VM workloads, trapped in legacy virtualized data centers with hefty license fees. We’ll show you how to migrate VMs at scale to operate directly in Kubernetes clusters on bare metal, in the cloud or even at the edge.


Rethinking VM environments: reducing the footprint, not replacing it

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the tactical edge in military operations. This session will address the unique challenges and innovative solutions for deploying mission capabilities in austere environments. Industry experts from Vertosoft, Spectro Cloud, and CALIBRE Systems will share their expertise on modern IT practices, effective Kubernetes deployment, and the critical role of interoperability and collaboration in overcoming these obstacles. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and enhance your understanding of cutting-edge military technology.


Navigating the tactical edge: insights from industry experts

There’s no shortage of content out there about how to secure your Kubernetes clusters. But what you probably haven’t heard is the attacker’s perspective.

Join us for this exclusive webinar with KTrust, a provider of automated “red team” security for K8s, based on the principle that the best way to protect your business is to think like your enemy.

We’ll explore:

*   The most common Kubernetes attack vectors we see in the wild today, and show you a demo of common attacks like container breakout, privilege escalation and secret extraction
*   The modern security approach you need to take to be successful today: preemptive and proactive at detection and remediation, including a live demo of how to put this approach into action
*   Which security components you really need in your K8s environments, and the best way to deploy them consistently at scale


Securing Kubernetes: the attacker’s point of view

As enterprises seek to modernize their infrastructure, migrating applications to containerized environments can be complex — especially when managing workloads across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.

AWS and Spectro Cloud are partnering to simplify and accelerate this journey, helping organizations seamlessly transition from legacy systems to modern Kubernetes-powered infrastructure.

Join us for this exclusive webinar, where experts from AWS and Spectro Cloud will share insights on:

\* Best practices for migrating and modernizing workloads with Kubernetes

\* How to leverage AWS services and Spectro Cloud’s automation for seamless deployment

\* Real-world use cases showcasing success from edge to cloud

\* Q\&A with industry experts

Whether you’re just starting your container migration journey or looking to optimize existing deployments, this session will provide actionable strategies to help you modernize with confidence.


Accelerating migrations to modernized containers, from edge to cloud

Public sector, defense, healthcare, financial services... many different industries set high standards for infrastructure security, privacy and governance, and these standards have huge implications for your Kubernetes environments.

In this webinar we'll take a tour of Spectro Cloud's Palette VerteX, a Kubernetes management platform designed specifically to meet security requirements in DoD and regulated industries. We'll spotlight features such as:

*   Support for airgapped and high side environments
*   Deploying to government clouds in AWS and Azure
*   FIPS cryptography from management plane to cluster
*   Choice of hardened OS, distributions and software packages available
*   Native security scans and audit logging
*   CONUS technical support

We'll share real-world examples of how agencies and businesses are using Palette VerteX to simplify how they manage K8s clusters in regulated environments, and show you how you can get started.


Managing Kubernetes in regulated environments: Palette VerteX

Join us for a rapid tour of *The State of Edge AI* report — a data-driven look at how enterprises are building, scaling, and operationalizing AI outside the cloud. Drawing on responses from 320 technology professionals, this session breaks down the trends, challenges, and real-world practices shaping edge AI today.

In this concise overview, you’ll discover:

*   how quickly organizations are adopting edge AI — and where most are on the maturity curve
*   the top use cases driving investment and where teams are seeing value
*   the common barriers that slow progress, from budgets and skills to complexity
*   why consistency and standardization matter more than ever in distributed environments
*   and how technologies like Kubernetes are helping teams orchestrate AI at the edge.

Whether you’re involved in edge infrastructure, AI delivery or platform engineering, this session will give you quick, practical insights to benchmark your efforts and inform your strategy.
