Whitestack

Whitestack is a cloud and network infrastructure provider helping organizations adopt a broad spectrum of technologies around cloud and software defined networks. The company provides cloud, SDN, and NFV solutions to help organizations build hyper-scalable data centers and elastic private or public clouds, and with automated networking.

The initial focus on of Whitestack is on telecommunication and data center industries. And their solutions take components from a hyper scalable model, offering solutions comprised of white box switches, OEM high density servers, Linux and OpenStack.

Whitestack's data center solutions work to help organizations transform data centers with technologies such as cloud- and software-defined storage and software-defined networking, to gain access to more efficient and elastic computing capacity offering scalability on demand. These solutions are considered best for use in telecommunications, retail, and financial industries, which need clouds capable of scaling. As well, Whitestack's data center solutions work to help organizations avoid vendor lock-in.

These solutions include technology for migrating away from brand-focused servers to density-focused servers, ideally compliant with industry standards projects like Open Compute Project. Solutions offer a storage control-plane that can be decoupled from the hardware, so that a set of high-density servers with the desired amount and disk types, which can be easily converted into a highly-available storage cluster, called software-defined storage.

The company's solutions also offer network operation aiming to scale with a general-purpose "merchant silicon" used to build networking gear, which has evolved to a concept called "Network Disaggregation," in which whiteboxes can be commercialized without a network operating-system (NOS). And the company uses open-source software in its solutions, whether it is to implement hypervisors, cloud management platforms, or automation tools to achieve hyper-scalable clouds.

Whitestack's products work to support the telecommunications companies in the implementation of technologies on open source software and hardware. These technologies include Telco cloud and network function virtualization, zero touch automation, and software-defined networking. To comply with network function virtualization vision of implementing network functions and services in a virtualized way by using commodity hardware, operators should lead their NFV deployments.

Whitestack offers organizations training for cloud, software defined networks, and network function virtualization, and to help those organizations use these technologies. This includes training programs for cloud computing, software defined networks, network development and operations, and network function virtualization.

Each track has training at different levels: introduction, which allows professionals to understand the key benefits and how to apply them in their organizations; fundamentals, which offers technical professionals training to understand the technology fundamentals behind each approach; and operations, which are aimed at technical professionals who need to operate infrastructure running on these technologies.