WekaIO Selected as a Winner in AI Breakthrough Awards
Company receives “Best Overall AI Platform” for its Limitless Data Platform
CAMPBELL, Calif., June 23, 2021
–
WekaIO
™ (Weka), the fastest-growing data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, enterprise technical computing, and high-performance data analytics (
HPDA
), was honored with the “Best Overall AI Platform” award for the Weka AI Limitless Data Platform as part of the 2021 AI Breakthrough Awards.
The AI Breakthrough Awards program is the premier awards and recognition platform founded to recognize artificial intelligence related technology innovators, leaders, and visionaries from around the world. The annual awards program honors AI excellence, innovation, and success in a range of
AI/ML
related categories, including AI and
Machine Learning
Platforms, Smart Robotics, Business Intelligence and Analytics, Natural Language Processing, industry specific AI applications, and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 2,200 nominations from all over the world.
All award nominations were evaluated by an independent panel of experts within the AI industry, with the winning products and companies selected based on a variety of considerations, including innovation, design and user-experience, as well as overall technological advancement for their respective categories.
Weka’s Limitless Data Platform™ is built on a shareable and distributed file storage system (WekaFS™) that delivers the simplicity, speed, and scale required by demanding AI/ML workloads. Designed to help future-ready clients’ data centers and enable digital transformation, the breakthrough WekaFS solution was architected to leverage the performance benefits of flash, high-speed networking, and compute acceleration technologies (like GPUs) whether the data resides on-premises, in the public cloud, or as a hybrid model. WekaFS stands out as a leading solution because it gives clients the leverage to get more value out of their compute resources, providing a full enterprise-grade solution with advanced security and full cloud integration.
“The best way to meet the storage requirements for AI environments is through a transformative solution capable of handling the entire data pipeline workflow on the same platform,” said Liran Zvibel, co-founder and CEO at WekaIO. “So, we developed Weka AI™ as a way to solve storage challenges while enabling faster, deeper learning for artificial intelligence and analytics. We are pleased that the results of this development have been recognized by the AI Breakthrough Awards for its ability to provide high-performance, low-latency storage for I/O-intensive workloads like AI and machine learning.”
The AI Breakthrough Award is one of several awards given to WekaIO in the past few months. Others include
Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI
,
Data Breakthrough Award
,
Flash Memory Summit Best of Show
,
Tech Target Enterprise Data Storage Product of the Year Award
, and
Aragon Research Hot Vendor in AI
.
Additional details about the AI Breakthrough Awards, including a full list of winners, is available at
https://aibreakthroughawards.com/
.
About WekaIO
WekaIO (Weka) is used by eight of the Fortune 50 enterprise organizations to uniquely solve the newest, biggest problems holding back innovation and discovery. Weka solutions are purpose-built to future-ready the accelerated and agile data center. Optimized for NVMe-flash and the hybrid cloud, its advanced architecture handles the most demanding storage challenges in the most data-intensive technical computing environments, delivering truly epic performance at any scale, enabling organizations to maximize the full value of their data center investments. Weka helps the enterprise solve big IT infrastructure problems to accelerate business outcomes and speed productivity. For more information, go to
https://www.weka.io
Follow WekaIO:
,
, and
WekaIO, WekaFS, Weka AI, Weka Innovation Network, Weka Within, Weka AI logo, WIN logo, Weka Within logo, and the WekaIO logo are trademarks of WekaIO, Inc.
Media Contact
WEKA Communications
media.relations@weka.io
Media Contact:
JPR Communications
Judy Smith
judys@jprcom.com
What's Next
WEKA and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Validate 10x Throughput Gains for Long-Context AI Inference
WEKA Partners With Glocomp to Deliver End-to-End AI Infrastructure Solutions Across Malaysia
WEKA Breaks The AI Memory Barrier With Augmented Memory Grid on NeuralMesh
WEKA Unveils Next-Gen WEKApod Appliances to Redefine AI Storage Economics
Scale Production AI Faster with NeuralMesh
Your models aren't slow. Your data is. Fix AI bottlenecks with high-throughput infrastructure.