
"We ended up with better performance than NVIDIA at half the cost. Our investors are blown away with our TCO. This is the benefit of open source software and OCP hardware.”

"Operating in private cloud can be up to 70% cheaper than going with public cloud vendors. With Hedgehog as our network infrastructure partner we can hyperscale on-prem infrastructure at the same pace as our business."
Hedgehog Product Benefits
Open & Automated to Reduce Costs
Eliminate Vendor Lock-in:
Hedgehog provides an open-source solution that allows access to multi-vendor OCP networking equipment used by hyperscalers, dramatically reducing both hardware and operational expenses. Our AI network software platform provides the critical automation layer to make this powerful equipment accessible without requiring specialized expertise.
Cloud-Native Performance & UX
Accelerate AI Workloads:
Deliver high-performance networking that reduces AI job completion time for training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads. Our cloud user experience is immediately familiar to cloud operations teams, simplifying complex configurations and negating the need for specialized network engineers.
Turnkey Solution for AI Innovation
Ready for Scale:
The Hedgehog software appliance is a turnkey solution that includes all the necessary open-source software to run distributed cloud infrastructure for AI workloads. This allows organizations to build cutting-edge AI infrastructure that can handle demanding workloads, with the high performance and low latency needed to deliver faster job completion.
Solutions for your AI Network Challenges
CHALLENGE
Prohibitively High Costs: Quotes for proprietary solutions result in massive capital outlays, straining IT budgets and making AI infrastructure inaccessible.
SOLUTION
Better Performance for Half the Price: Our combination of open software and whitebox hardware is proven to deliver better performance than proprietary options while costing about half the price.
CHALLENGE
Operational Complexity: Implementing open networking without a proper management layer requires specialized network engineers and complex manual configuration.
SOLUTION
Cloud User Experience: Hedgehog simplifies operations by providing an abstraction layer and a cloud UX familiar to existing cloud operations teams, reducing the need for specialized network expertise.
CHALLENGE
Vendor Lock-in: Proprietary vendors restrict long-term IT strategy by forcing customers into integrated, closed-stack solutions, such as those from Cisco, Arista, or Nvidia.
SOLUTION
Open Source Freedom: Hedgehog delivers open-source AI networking software that disaggregates software from hardware, giving customers the freedom to choose multi-vendor networking equipment and eliminate vendor lock-in.
CHALLENGE
Expensive Public Cloud Dependency: Relying on public cloud vendors for scaling AI workloads is prohibitively expensive, despite the need to scale rapidly.
SOLUTION
Cost-Efficient Hyperscale On-Prem: Operating an AI data center using Hedgehog can be up to 70% cheaper than utilizing public cloud vendors, allowing businesses to scale while keeping costs down.
CHALLENGE
Lack of Data Control: Enterprises need to protect proprietary data ("their gold") but struggle to find suitable infrastructure to run fine-tuned models on-premises.
SOLUTION
Secure, Private Cloud Infrastructure: Hedgehog enables enterprises to run on-premise infrastructure, featuring secure multi-tenant architectures and cloud services like the Security Gateway to ensure data governance and privacy.
See Hedgehog in action
Watch this 3 minute video to see installation and configuration of a cloud network for multiple tenants. Hedgehog CEO Marc Austin demonstrates using the Hedgehog software appliance to install, boot and configure a secure cloud network. He then uses the Hedgehog API to provision Virtual Private Cloud services for two tenants, and he demonstrates multi-tenant isolation.