Bigshare 2024: Simplify with Cube, Empowering Enterprises to Embrace AI Cloud Intelligence

Bigstack's first-ever annual technical exchange event, Bigshare, will take place on March 27, 2024, at the GIS NTU Convention Center. The summit brings together partners and customers from diverse industries for open discussions and learning opportunities, fostering collaboration among technical professionals, service partners, and industry clients.

Recognizing the rapid evolution of multi-cloud infrastructures, Bigstack believes enterprises need a "unified, cost-effective, enterprise-grade" cloud platform operating system. Enter Cube: a solution designed to simplify hybrid cloud IT infrastructure management, enabling organizations to allocate more resources toward the development and deployment of their operational systems.

Bigshare 2024 will feature the launch of the latest Cube products and functionalities. Attendees will gain insights into managing enterprise AI resource pools, developing AI containers, and leveraging AIoT edge cloud applications. Industry leaders such as Advantech, HwaCom Systems, Jetwell Computer, and Arrosoft Solutions will share practical use cases, showcasing the real-world impact of these innovations.

Bigstack: Simplifying AI Cloud Intelligence with Cube

The event will kick off with Bigstack co-founder Kai Kuo, who will highlight the key factors in building enterprise AI solutions and the critical role of their hyper-converged single-platform solution, Cube, across various stages of digital transformation.

Following this, Jonathan Tsai, Director at the Digital Transformation Research Institute of the III (Institute for Information Industry), will discuss using open-source tools to build DevSecOps platforms from a cybersecurity perspective. His presentation will demonstrate how enterprises can accelerate software development, integrate security seamlessly, shorten development cycles, enhance software quality, and reduce security risks.

Innovative Showcase of Cube Solutions

Bigstack COO Gary Hsueh highlighted how Cube addresses the challenges faced by enterprise IT teams while showcasing the extended applications of the CubeCOS cloud service across various industries. He demonstrated the convenience of hybrid cloud management with CubeCMP, emphasizing its comprehensive resource overview and management capabilities. Additionally, he outlined Bigstack's future development directions and potential expansion areas.

Bigstack COO Gary Hsueh explains the features of Cube.

Following this, ex-development leader delivered an engaging presentation titled "Turning a Cat’s Life from Black and White to Color." He illustrated how Cube simplifies and accelerates the process of deploying image processing workflows to the cloud. His analogy of transforming IT operations from "black and white to color" resonated strongly with the audience, sparking lively discussions and numerous inquiries about the technical capabilities and ease of use of Cube during the interactive session.

Arrosoft: Building Cloud-Integrated Enterprise Data Protection Frameworks with Data Lifecycle Management

James Lee, Arrosoft Taiwan General Manager, highlighted the rising trend of managed service providers (MSPs) and shared Arrosoft's comprehensive MSP strategy for cloud migration and backup services. He demonstrated how Arrosoft supports business partners in building private cloud services, enabling seamless backups from on-premises or public cloud environments to the cloud.

During his presentation, Lee showcased the process of migrating resources to cloud platforms and provided an overview of Arrosoft’s all-encompassing cybersecurity incident response services, emphasizing their role in enhancing enterprise data protection.

James Lee, Arrosoft Taiwan General Manager, analyzes MSP strategy trends and shares insights on cloud migration and backup strategies.

Advantech: Cloud, Edge, and AI Integration for High-Performance Industrial Edge Computing AI Clouds

This event also featured Magic Pao, Vice President of Industrial Cloud and Imaging Technology at Advantech, and Joshua Hua, Product Manager of the IoT Business Group. They shared insights into Advantech's collaboration with Bigstack to accelerate the adoption of smart IoT (AIoT) solutions. Their presentation highlighted edge computing applications in various sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, and academia, showcasing innovative solutions for these industries.

Additionally, Advantech's generative AI for smart factories was introduced, demonstrating how AI models can seamlessly integrate with existing workflows to optimize processes for specific application requirements. This integration enables enterprises to evaluate complex scenarios efficiently and make intelligent decisions, enhancing operational efficiency and management effectiveness.

Magic Pao, Advantech Vice President of Industrial Cloud and Imaging Technology, shared insights on AI model workflows and applications.

HwaCom Systems: Hybrid Cloud with Native AI Architecture Brings Exceptional Flexibility to Enterprise Innovation

Andy Yu, Senior Associate Manager of the System Integration Division at HwaCom Systems, evaluated the current state of Taiwan's industrial cloud service investments and the adoption of new technologies. He discussed the advantages and challenges hybrid clouds bring to Taiwan's industries.

For large enterprises, the primary issues often involve collaboration difficulties between IT staff and developers, necessitating agile infrastructure solutions. For smaller businesses, the challenges lie in talent shortages and the complexity of managing multi-platform architectures.

Bigstack's Cube product addresses these challenges with its versatile horizontal scalability and adaptive configurations, making it suitable for both large and small enterprises. It offers the essential capabilities required for a hybrid cloud platform, providing businesses with maximum flexibility to support innovative operations.

The speech by Andy Yu, Senior Associate General Manager of Huadian IoT.

Jetwell Computer: Utilizing Simple and Scalable IT Infrastructure to Drive Modernization and Digital Transformation

The presentation concluded with Benson Su, Business Manager at Jetwell Computer, who first used a series of meme images to review key events in the IT field from 20 years ago to the present. He highlighted that self-built IT infrastructure remains unavoidable even today. Looking ahead to 2024 and beyond, one of the key goals is to invest in scalable IT infrastructure, such as the Bigstack hyper-converged platform, which combines multiple features like multi-functionality and large-scale capability. Another goal is to carry out modernization and digital transformation under secure mechanisms, aiming to enhance the user experience with hardware products, improve efficiency with software services, and address the challenges of traditional business models in various industries. The presentation concluded with a case study of collaboration with Guo General Hospital, showcasing Bigstack's competitive advantage in functionality validation and high availability. His humorous and witty speaking style often brought smiles to the audience.

Jetwell Computer Business Manager Benson Su reviews major events in the IT industry.

The Bigshare 2024 Annual Exchange Summit not only shared the new products and services of Bigstack for the year, but also invited technical experts to introduce emerging IT innovation trends. Collaborative business partners provided more enterprise IT application services that have integrated Bigstack technology, while successful case studies were shared. Additionally, the upcoming open-source plans for Bigstack were previewed, with the goal of building more business cooperation markets, enabling various industries to create more possibilities through Cube.