# Weka Signs OEM Agreement with Hitachi Vantara **Published:** July 21, 2020 **Location:** Campbell, Calif. ![WEKA logo with abstract white shapes on a textured purple to orange gradient background](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ult5g8gw/production/4061da3e03532447a685d4d60928329ecf6bfba7-1200x675.png) > Weka and Hitachi Vantara partner on a high-performance storage solution that speeds access to unstructured data and scales AI, deep learning and HPC workloads. _The global partnership will produce a [distributed file system](https://www.weka.io/learn/distributed-file-system/) and management solution to help customers gain faster access and insights from unstructured data._ [WekaIO](https://www.weka.io)™ (Weka), the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, today announced that it has entered into an OEM agreement with Hitachi Vantara for Weka’s industry-leading [HPC storage](https://www.weka.io/learn/why-hpc-storage-is-so-critical-and-cannot-be-ignored/) software, WekaFS™. WekaFS software is the world’s fastest* distributed file system architected to integrate NVMe and S3 storage on-premises, while providing full protocol access and the ability to burst workloads to the cloud. The OEM agreement brings together category leaders Weka, for distributed file systems, and Hitachi Vantara, for object storage, to deliver a single engineered solution tuned to meet the performance and capacity demands of mixed workloads common in artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). A single offering that combines the unmatched performance of the Weka File System with the unbeatable scalability of Hitachi Vantara object storage will reduce the high cost of storage management overhead and running AI and analytics workloads, increase business agility, and improve time to market. Commenting on today’s announcement, Patricia Harris, vice president, Digital Infrastructure Marketing at Hitachi Vantara, said, “As the volume of unstructured data skyrockets within organizations, the full-stack integration provided by our partnership with Weka helps organizations avoid overprovisioning data storage as their business requirements change. The complete end-to-end stack support delivered by Hitachi Vantara will simplify management for our customers.” Leveraging the advanced functionality of Hitachi object storage, WekaFS benefits customers by delivering distributed data protection and scale-out metadata services, snapshots to object storage with no performance loss, integrated tiering to disk and cloud bursting for best economics, NVMe-oF shared file system for performance, and full protocol access. “WekaFS provides a first-mover customer advantage by leveraging the world’s fastest file system to help solve today’s and tomorrow’s biggest AI problems. WekaFS is ideal for organizations investing in modernizing their infrastructure with GPUs and flash and wanting future-proofed, software-defined agility to drive the new applications and models for AI, deep learning, and HPC,” said Andrew Perry, WekaIO’s vice president of sales. “The turnkey solution from Hitachi Vantara will consistently deliver the shortest time to market for AI initiatives, which for customers translates into faster time to value.” Additional resources: - WekaIO blog post: “[Two Category Leaders Collaborate to Solve HPC Storage for Data Analytics, AI/ML Workloads](https://www.weka.io/blog/two-leaders-collaborate-to-solve-hpc-storage-for-data-analytics-and-ai),” by Shailesh Manjrekar, head of AI at WekaIO - Hitachi Vantara news release, “[Hitachi Vantara Helps Customers Reach New Speeds for Unstructured Data and High-Performance Workloads](https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/news-resources/press-releases/2020/gl200714.html)” - Hitachi Vantara blog post, “[Object Storage Comes of Age](https://www.hitachivantara.com/blog/object-storage-comes-of-age/),”by Patricia Harris, vice president, Digital Infrastructure Marketing * [Weka delivers record-breaking results on STAC-M3 benchmarks](https://www.weka.io/press-releases/weka-delivers-record-breaking-results-on-17-stac-m3-tick-analytics-benchmarks-using-hpe-apollo-systems/), [Weka Places First on IO-500 Challenge](https://www.weka.io/press-releases/wekaio-places-first-on-io-500-challenge/), [WekaIO Cements its Storage Leadership with Groundbreaking Performance and Latency Results on SPEC SFS 2014](https://www.weka.io/press-releases/wekaio-matrix-cements-storage-leadership-groundbreaking-performance-latency-results-spec-sfs-2014/) ## About WEKA **About WEKA** WEKA is the AI data and memory infrastructure company transforming the economics of agentic AI. Its WEKA® NeuralMesh™ platform unifies high-performance data storage with extended GPU memory, giving enterprises, AI cloud providers, and AI builders a single foundation for training, inference, and agentic workloads. With Augmented Memory Grid™, NeuralMesh extends GPU memory capacity by 1000x, accelerates time to first token by up to 20x, and delivers 10x more concurrent users from the same GPU footprint, proven in production benchmarks. Trusted by 30% of the Fortune 50, WEKA enables organizations to scale AI faster, optimize GPU utilization, and reduce the cost of every token served. Learn more at [www.weka.io](https://www.weka.io/) or connect with us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weka-io/) and [X](https://x.com/weka). _WEKA and the WEKA logo are registered trademarks, and WEKA NeuralMesh and Augmented Memory Grid are trademarks of WekaIO, Inc. Other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners._ **Media Contact:** WEKA Communications [pr@weka.io](mailto:pr@weka.io) ## More Press Releases - [Backblaze and WEKA Simplify Data Management Across the AI Lifecycle](/news/backblaze-and-weka-simplify-data-management-across-the-ai-lifecycle) - [WEKA and Andromeda Partner to Power AI Workloads at Global Scale](/news/weka-and-andromeda-partner-to-power-ai-workloads-at-global-scale) - [WEKA Unveils WEKApod 3: The World's Densest AI Storage and Memory System for Agentic Workloads](/news/wekapod-3-densest-ai-storage-memory-system) - [WEKA Debuts NeuralMesh 6 to Power Enterprise and Agentic AI Workloads at Production Scale](/news/neuralmesh-6-enterprise-agentic-ai)