WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, unveiled two new WEKApod™ data platform applianced: the WEKApod Nitro for large-scale enterprise AI deployments and the WEKApod Prime for smaller-scale AI deployments and multi-purpose high-performance data use cases.
WEKA Grows IP Portfolio to More Than 100 Patents
June 20, 2024 by
CAMPBELL, Calif., June 20, 2024 – WekaIO, the AI-native data platform company, today announced its IP portfolio has been awarded more than 100 patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The company was granted its 113th patent for methods and systems for power failure resistance for a distributed storage system on June […]
WEKA Rolls Out New Features and Enhancements in 4.2 Software Release
May 17, 2023 by
WekaIO, the data platform provider for performance-intensive workloads, unveiled version 4.2 of the WEKA® Data Platform. The new release brings a variety of enhanced features and new capabilities to the company designed to increase the affordability and performance of next-generation technologies for WEKA’s customers. These include advanced data reduction and a new container storage interface (CSI) plug-in for stateful containerized workloads that can help customers dramatically lower their storage and operational costs.
WEKA Unveils Industry’s First Multicloud Data Platform for AI and Next Generation Workloads
June 15, 2022 by
WEKA, the Data Platform for AI company, unveiled the fourth generation of its software-based solution that delivers first to market results with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other next generation workloads via a single, scalable, highly performant platform for hybrid cloud and edge environments – now available in any public clouds of their choosing.
WEKA Announces New Venture Funding
January 4, 2022 by
CAMPBELL, Calif., — January 4, 2022 — WEKA, maker of a data platform for AI, today announced that Hitachi Ventures led its recent round raising $73 million in funding, which brings the total amount raised to $140 million. Other investors participating in this round were strategic investors, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NVIDIA, Micron, and Cisco, […]
Weka and HPE Launch Joint Offering for Containerized Workloads
December 7, 2021 by
CAMPBELL, Calif., December 7, 2021 –AI data platform company WekaIO (Weka) today announced it has developed a solution with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for demanding AI and ML workloads, now available on the HPE Ezmeral Marketplace. HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise is the industry’s first Kubernetes platform supporting both cloud native and non-cloud native applications. HPE Ezmeral supports […]
Weka Claims 6 Records on STAC-M3 WEKAFS File Systems on EC2
June 8, 2021 by
CAMPBELL, Calif. – June 8, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), the data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, and high-performance computing (HPC), today announced record-breaking performance of its Weka File System (WekaFS) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) according to the STAC-M3 Benchmark. An independent audit, conducted by Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC), showed that […]
WekaIO Announces Results with NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage in Microsoft Research Lab
March 22, 2021 by
CAMPBELL, Calif., March 22, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), the data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, enterprise technical computing and high-performance data analytics (HPDA), announced today results of testing conducted with Microsoft, which showed that the Weka File System (WekaFS) produced among the greatest aggregate NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage throughput numbers of all storage systems tested to […]
The New and Evolving Role of the Chief Data Officer
March 18, 2021 by
In this sponsored post, Ken Grohe, President and Chief Revenue Officer for WekaIO, discusses the newest title in the C-Suite, the CDO: Chief Data Officer. As of 2018, almost 68 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have a CDO, yet according to Gartner, “The Chief Data Officer role is still new, untested, and amorphous.” More organizations will recognize that a savvy CDO delivers a return on investment, and as enterprise data stores grow, so do the returns.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Picks WekaIO Data Platform for Drug Discovery
March 2, 2021 by
CAMPBELL, Calif., March 2, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), maker of fastest-growing data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning, life sciences research and high performance data analytics (HPDA), today announced that the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) has implemented Weka’s Limitless Data Platform to simplify, speed up, and scale their mixed workloads. By using Weka, OMRF said it can run more and concurrent research jobs in […]
