SOLU T I ON B R I E F

The WEKA® Data Platform

Power Next-Generation Workloads with the Performance of
an AI-Native Platform
Challenges
• Performance to support
compute-intensive workloads
75% up to 90% 65%
reduction in improvement in savings over
• Feeding AI data pipelines workload wall deep learning traditional high-
• Scaling up and down clock time epoch time performance computing
• Lowering costs while
optimizing performance The WEKA® Data Platform was built to modernize enterprise data stacks. Its
• Managing mixed IO advanced AI-native, data pipeline-oriented architecture delivers exceptional
Why WEKA performance at scale, providing an optimal environment for data-intensive
• Speed time to build models applications that makes GPUs and AI, ML, and HPC workloads run faster and
• Scale to meet the demands work more efficiently on-premises and in the cloud.
of modern pipelines
• Lower costs to process and
As AI workloads are increasingly requiring more data and performance,
store data
• Maximize the utilization of keeping a GPU compute cluster fed is critical to overall pipeline performance
your GPUs and efficiency. WEKA powers GPUs up to 20x faster, which means your GPUs
• Optimize both read & write
and modeling software spend less time idle waiting for data. Our zero-tuning
performance for small & large
files no matter the number capability also assures that every application in your analytics pipeline gets
• Run multiple concurrent and the performance it needs.
diverse workloads
• Leverage industry-leading
The WEKA Data Platform transforms stagnant data storage silos into dynamic
metadata performance
• No need to copy datasets data pipelines that fuel compute-intensive workloads and seamlessly span
between locations across edge, core, cloud, hybrid, and multicloud data environments. WEKA
• Simplify the environment
is powering a new era of sustainable data innovation in the world’s leading
including backup & DR
research organizations and enterprises, helping them to innovate at the
speed of science, create without limits, and turn ideas into outcomes.

WEKA was a perfect fit to

handle extraordinarily
Mind-bending speed. Seductive simplicity. 20X
Infinite scalability. Effortless sustainability. faster GPUs
large data sets efficiently

The WEKA Data Platform

up to
Great performance
in an easy package
75%
reduction in
infrastructure costs

World class storage

solution currently 40X
taking everything we faster model
can throw at it! development

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WEKA: The AI-Native Data Platform™ WEKA Performance Speeds

The growth of AI and Generative AI requires a AI Model Training
radically new approach to data. WEKA provides

Performance Choice & Feature

Density Completeness

Unlimited Class-leading
Linear Scale Economics

to support organizations across a wide variety of industries

as they optimize data pipelines & AI workloads.

Faster Outcomes
Faster Time to Market
Optimized Competitive Advantage

U2:UV at Sphere Problem: Needed a highly-

performant solution that
Problem: U2 needed a way
allowed for scaling a shared
to migrate 500+ terabytes of
data set that had scaled
archival video from the UK to
Las Vegas and then upscale 92% beyond NAS capability but

1.5PB
OBJ was too slow
for 16K by 16k display. reduced epoch time in AWS

40x
of data
Solution: Able to seamlessly Solution: Scaled capacity by

402GB/s
of video streaming data
load and migrate large video
files to a local WEKA cluster at
speed improvement creating
and copying 1GB files
5x, increased performance
by 10x and reduced costs by

30M
Sphere and regularly render 75% vs Isilon

160K
sqft LED display
them to create and recreate
the show’s stunning visuals.
files being used to
train the model

Some of the Customers Who Trust WEKA

We guarantee WEKA can deliver at least
with their High-Performance Workloads 2x the performance of your existing
comparable-sized NAS storage appliance.
If not, we’ll pay for enough WEKA software
and hardware to hit the target.

We guarantee we can save you 50% on your

current cloud storage solution with zero
impact on performance, or we will make
up the difference out of our own pocket.

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