In the process of enterprise digital transformation, establishing data collection and analytics capabilities is a crucial step. Businesses can refine their management strategies or business models by leveraging data analysis results, ultimately enhancing productivity and profitability.

Discover how Everest Textile, a Taiwanese textile giant, consolidated production data from over a hundred machines, generating nearly a thousand daily records. Everest Textile improved production efficiency and optimized workflow processes with the help of a real-time production management dashboard.

A key factor behind Everest Textile's successful transformation to a visualized production management system lies in WISE-STACK, an all-in-one hyper-converged private cloud solution co-developed by Advantech and Bigstack.

WISE-STACK is built on Advantech's self-developed standard x86 servers and the WISE-PaaS data application platform.  Integrating CubeCOS, a hyper-converged cloud platform operating system, to deliver a fully integrated software-hardware hyper-converged private cloud solution.

In a private cloud architecture, managing computing resources at the underlying IaaS layer is a crucial foundation for both the PaaS platform in the middle layer and the SaaS applications on the top layer. With this in mind, Advantech has been actively searching for the right solution.

Throughout this process, Advantech explored various vendors. Some offered lower prices but lacked comprehensive functionality, requiring significant time and manpower for integration. Others provided complete features but at a much higher cost. It wasn't until encountering Bigstack CubeCOS that Advantech found the ideal solution—one that is not only cost-effective but also feature-rich.

CubeCOS supports hyper-converged architecture, software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined storage (SDS), and multi-tenancy, making it highly adaptable to various customer use cases.

"More importantly, CubeCOS meets Advantech's requirement for automated installation," explained Magic Pao, Vice President of Edge Servers at Advantech.

In IoT applications, the less manual intervention, the higher the efficiency. Therefore, when developing IoT-related systems, Advantech prioritizes automation. Based on this principle, the company sought a private cloud solution that could be automatically installed on newly deployed servers using Preboot Execution Environment (PXE).

Bigstack CubeCOS supports automated installation and ensures a consistent post-installation environment, optimizing performance for both the PaaS and SaaS layers built on top.

Magic Pao, Vice President of Edge Servers at Advantech, stated that collaboration with Bigstack CubeCOS has enabled WISE-STACK to help many customers successfully embark on their digital transformation journey.

Beyond its advantages in pricing, functionality, and automated installation, Bigstack CubeCOS stands out with three key features:

1. Fast Installation – A three-node computing cluster can be fully installed within four hours.
2. High Scalability – Enterprises can seamlessly add servers within a single computing cluster to expand processing power as needed.
3. Robust Technical Capabilities – CubeCOS supports custom development and after-sales support, offering up to seven years of updates and upgrades.

Partnering with Advantech to Empower Enterprise Customers in Driving Digital Transformation

Since its launch about two years ago, WISE-STACK has been successfully deployed in nearly 100 installations worldwide. In addition to Everest Textile, users include Taichung Veterans General Hospital and several other well-known global enterprises.

According to Magic Pao, based on feedback from various enterprise clients, the most significant benefit of Bigstack CubeCOS is its ability to significantly reduce costs. Furthermore, with Bigstack offering up to seven years of updates and upgrades, customers no longer need to worry about being forced to spend money on upgrades in the future.

"Through our collaboration with Bigstack CubeCOS, Advantech's WISE-STACK has successfully helped many customers embark on their digital transformation journey," said Magic Pao.

Looking ahead, our partnership with Advantech aims to leverage WISE-STACK in helping Industry Solution Integrators (DFSI) and equipment vendors align with the needs of various vertical industries. We aim to create a range of new AIoT application services, working towards Advantech's vision of becoming a key driver of the Intelligent Earth.