The WEKA® Data Platform
Capabilities
Architected for Acceleration
The WEKA Data Platform’s unique architecture ensures organizations have the best in performance, scale, and flexibility to support continuous innovation and power their modern data-intensive workloads.
Software-Defined Architecture
In traditional architectures, as systems scale, the need for more space and power grows exponentially. But WEKA’s innovative data architecture ensures that its scaling is not only linear in terms of performance but also efficient in terms of resources. WEKA’s software-defined architecture, coupled with its 4K granularity and virtual metadata servers, ensures that no resource is wasted—whether that resource is storage capacity or electrical power.
Ultimate Deployment Flexibility
WEKA lives anywhere your data does, whether on-premises, in the public cloud, or hybrid. Take advantage of elastic compute resources available in the cloud at massive scale by deploying our AI native data platform in the cloud. On-premises, WEKA offers you the choice of either deploying on dedicated storage servers or as converged compute/storage.
The WEKA® Data Platform has evolved into a robust data platform that is designed to provide a cloud-like experience, whether you run your applications on-premises or plan to move them to the cloud, providing a seamless transition to the cloud and back. Deploy in Data Centers, Public Clouds, Hybrid Clouds or GPU Clouds.
Exceptional Metadata Management
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. WEKA eliminates metadata challenges with its innovative virtual metadata servers. The system doesn’t rely on just one or a few metadata servers. Instead, it runs multiple virtual metadata services across all the nodes in a cluster. Each metadata server only handles a small portion of the total namespace, so the workload is automatically distributed.
The AI Native 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.
Efficient Multitenancy
As cloud service providers (CSPs) and large enterprises continue to scale their AI and high-performance computing (HPC) operations, they face increasing challenges related to multitenancy. Managing multiple tenants, business units, or organizations on shared infrastructure without compromising performance, security, or resource efficiency is a complex task.
WEKA’s mutitenancy capabilities provide optimal, out-of-the-box performance for shared environments, ensuring that each user experiences consistent high performance, regardless of the demands placed by other workloads. This enables organizations to support multiple users or teams on the same platform without performance degradation, simplifying operations while maximizing efficiency and resource utilization.
Flexible Multi-Protocol
Data-intensive workflows typically involve moving data through a pipeline with various steps handing it off from one application to another to perform essential processing. In many workflows, the applications are disparate and speak different languages because they are optimized for a single use case. Many of these workflows also have performance requirements across these multiple applications that force customers to copy data to an optimal location for each application.
The WEKA Data Platform delivers a complete multiprotocol stack, including POSIX, S3, NFS, and SMB, giving customers the ability to centralize their data and eliminating the need to copy data between systems so that different applications can more easily access and act on it.
Intelligent Tiering
Traditionally, data tiering in file systems has been driven solely by data-aging policies, but organizations need to leverage the power of their storage systems that span multiple compute nodes, NVMe storage servers, and high speed connectivity to object storage to tier data in parallel. This enables them to perform operations efficiently, sustainably, and without compromising performance.
WEKA’s data tiering is performance-conscious and avoids frequent reads and writes to tiered storage. Data that is tiered to object storage is made useable for data protection scenarios rather than being idle cold storage. WEKA’s tiering framework is more comprehensive than data age-based tiering policy and tiers data only after applications have derived full value from being in the NVMe storage tier.
Zero-Copy Architecture
WEKA’s zero-copy approach provides both scale-up and scale-out capabilities in a single storage system, eliminating storage silos and scaling limitations associated with legacy storage systems.
The ability to deliver high performance across multiple types of workloads without additional tuning is a foundation for a zero-copy architecture. Multiprotocol access complements this performance, preventing data silos from being created by simultaneously enabling access to data across all protocols. This zero-copy philosophy simplifies data operations and improves time-to-value for the data itself.
Zero-Tuning
WEKA provides a unique zero-tuning data architecture, combining a massively parallel data processing engine with intelligent tiering between object and flash storage that automatically adjusts to meet the performance profile of any workload.
Auto-Scaling
The WEKA Data Platform delivers on the promise of cloud computing elasticity by tightly integrating the very popular autoscaling function that scales both up and back down, ensuring optimal performance, capacity and cost for demanding cloud applications. You can click on the following link to learn how 23andMe simplified their journey to the cloud and leveraged WEKA features like autoscaling, to minimize their cloud costs.
WEKA’s unique architecture empowers organizations to accelerate data pipelines and optimize business outcomes
Supercharge Innovation
Push the limits of what is possible. With industry-leading performance, WEKA can dramatically accelerate everything from an organization’s ability to supercharge their creativity, to getting to insights faster, and even speeding up time to market.
Reduce Costs
With WEKA, organizations can reduce their data center footprint, lower their power consumption, and optimize their resource usage—whether deployed on prem or in the cloud. This combination of speed and efficiency powers teams to get to answers faster, which is why WEKA is trusted by some of the most data-intensive industries in the world.
Simplify Operations
Eliminate the complexity and compromises of traditional data infrastructure with a single, easy-to-use AI-native data platform that eliminates storage silos across on-premises and the cloud and streamlines day-to-day operations.
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