Evolve from Data Storage to Data Pipelines

High-performance data pipelines are powering data-driven innovation by leveraging large amounts of frequently changing data for faster access to insights and speedier decision-making.

 

Unlock Innovation With a Data Platform

Organizations are eliminating the complexity of legacy data storage infrastructure and building their pipelines on data platforms. A data platform is an integrated, end-to-end solution that provides holistic support for an organization's data management needs while supporting every step of the organization’s data lifecycle – from ingest and pre-processing to analyzing, storage, and archiving. A true data platform is designed to support both the structured and unstructured data a digital organization uses, regardless of whether the data is at the core, cloud, or edge. It is multi-tenant, multi-workload, multi-performant, and multi-location, all with a common management interface.

Data Pipeline Challenges

Putting Pipelines Into Operation is as Critical as Building Them

Key technical challenges to operationalizing data pipelines are how to efficiently fill them, how to easily integrate across systems, and how to manage rapid change.

 

Data Pipelines Are Complex and Require Tuning

Each step of a pipeline usually has a completely different IO profile for data, which can result in complexity, siloing of storage, and data stalls in the pipeline

 

Workloads and Data Sprawl Across Disparate Systems

Data needs to be ingested from multiple sources and via multiple protocols. Today’s data pipelines need to run on-premises, in the cloud, and between locations

 

Infrastructure is Slow, Science Is Fast

Traditional infrastructure can take months to years to change, however, science changes much faster, and infrastructure needs to be able to adapt in weeks.

 

“Initial tests show that experiments can be run eight times faster with WEKA compared to local storage. Crucially, as these AI experiments are power intensive, the WEKA Data Platform can also reduce the energy requirements per experiment, thereby helping to lower their environmental impact.”

–University of Surrey, Read the Article

The WEKA Data Platform

Cloud Native, Datacenter Ready

Seamlessly run on-premises, in the cloud, and burst between locations


Faster than Local Storage

Accelerate large-scale data pipelines with reduced epoch times, the fastest inferencing, and the highest images/secs benchmarks.

Multi-Protocol Support

Supports Native NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, POSIX, NFS, SMB, and S3 access to data – simultaneously

Metadata Management Matters

Your Data Pipeline has to be able to handle all types of data types and data sizes. With today’s environments reaching 10s of millions or even billions of files, the metadata design of traditional enterprise storage can’t keep up. The WEKA® Data Platform patented data layout and virtual metadata servers distribute and parallelize all metadata and data across the cluster for incredibly low latency and high performance no matter the file size or number.

Practical Implication

Supported Hardware

Supported Clouds

Resources

WEKA Architectural Whitepaper

Whitepaper

WEKA Distributed Data Protection

Whitepaper

Selecting Scalable Storage Solutions

Buyers Guide

Start Accelerating Your Data Pipeline

Schedule A Meeting