Unifying Containers, VMs, and AI Workloads: Simplifying Data Protection and Operational Resilience Across Telco Cloud Environments.
Whitestack has announced the validated integration of Portworx by Everpure with its Whitestack Telco Cloud platform. The unified solution will simplify Kubernetes operations by integrating Portworx’s storage, data protection, and disaster recovery technologies with Whitestack’s IT and Telco Cloud platform. This validated, ready-to-deploy cloud-native solution provides a native Kubernetes experience for managing storage and data across AI workloads, containers, and virtual machines (VMs), allowing global telecommunications operators and enterprises to scale existing applications toward new workloads without operating separate, siloed platforms.
The unified solution combines the strengths of both companies to eliminate operational complexity and optimize infrastructure costs through two core components:
Portworx by Everpure is a leading Kubernetes data services platform that enables customers to run mission-critical, stateful applications – including databases, AI/ML, search and streaming, and modern virtualization – reliably on any Kubernetes distribution and any underlying storage. It provides container-native storage, data protection, disaster recovery, security, capacity management, and backup, delivering enterprise-grade performance and resiliency for cloud-native workloads.
Whitestack Telco Cloud is a battle-tested solution deployed by Tier-1 operators to run critical network functions. It empowers telecommunications providers and large enterprises to build fully controlled, on-premises private clouds—from bare-metal hardware to complete network function orchestration. Powered by WhiteCloud (OpenStack) for VNFs and WhiteCruiser (Kubernetes) for CNFs, the suite leverages interoperable open-source technologies to drastically reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and maximize infrastructure investments.
The result of this strategic collaboration is a fully validated, ready-to-deploy hyperconverged cloud-native solution. By pairing WhiteCruiser’s Kubernetes orchestration with Portworx’s high-performance data services platform, enterprise customers gain a turnkey platform that accelerates application deployment while ensuring top-tier performance and operational simplicity out of the box.
“Telco operators across EMEA and Latin America are under pressure to modernise without handing over control of their data. With Whitestack, they can run VMs, containers and AI workloads on one Kubernetes platform, on infrastructure they own, and keep the freedom to change direction later.” said Joao Silva, VP EMEA & LATAM at Everpure.
Integrating Portworx into our WhiteCruiser Kubernetes platform proved remarkably seamless. More importantly, rigorous joint benchmark testing demonstrated outstanding storage performance and low latency, proving that the combined solution offers an ideal, enterprise-grade hyperconverged storage architecture for mission-critical cloud-native workloads.
“Digital sovereignty and corporate TCO control depend entirely on infrastructure flexibility. This partnership with Everpure proves that combining robust Kubernetes data management with open, interoperable cloud platforms delivers the exact resilience needed to manage VMs, containers, and AI workloads efficiently and without proprietary vendor lock-in,” stated Luca Bianchi, Head of Business Development, EMEA, at Whitestack.
This integration builds on a strong foundation of real-world success. Whitestack already operates several mission-critical, production deployments in Tier-1 Telco customers running on Everpure storage solutions. Extending the collaboration to include Portworx on WhiteCruiser allows Whitestack to offer joint customers a proven, highly resilient Kubernetes platform backed by years of shared operational expertise.
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