5 Ways WEKA Supports Business Agility

Ways WEKA® Supports Business Agility

WEKA ensures affordable high performance through its highly scalable platform optimized to work on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid deployment model. The unique software-defined storage architecture of WEKA’s cloud deployment model decouples storage from hardware, which provides the scalability to quickly grow and shrink as an organization’s storage needs change.

With WEKA companies have the options to avoid the large capital investments associated with on-premises solutions, while also only paying for the cloud footprint they use. In an independent study conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), customers shared that using WEKA allowed them to react nimbly to changing needs and opportunities, which made their data a more strategic asset.

Single Data Copies

WEKA’s extension of namespaces to flash and object storage results in companies being able to access more complete data more quickly. WEKA also eliminates redundant systems and copies of data, lowering storage costs. ESG’s financial model showed WEKA customers experienced an overall reduction in their data footprints of 30%.

Faster Data Pipelines

With WEKA, data silos are eliminated. Data can be used across workloads, no matter the file type or size. Customers told ESG that they no longer have to copy data and are therefore able to reduce insight and project times, empowering data scientists to ask and answer more questions.

Enhanced Collaboration

As a result of WEKA’s platform, ESG found customers experienced higher levels of collaboration between IT teams, IT and business units, and the organization and customers. Improved collaboration led to higher-quality products and increased levels of job satisfaction and revenue.

Stability and Support

With WEKA, customers have a stable platform that dramatically reduces the amount of downtime and outages. Additionally, WEKA provides unparalleled levels of service. As one customer told ESG, “We have 1.5 years on our WEKA cluster and have never had to reboot. Before WEKA, we would have about three incidents of serious downtime per year. Since WEKA,we have had zero. WEKA just works.”

Auto Scaling

Due to WEKA’s elasticity and ability to efficiently scale up and down resources, customers were able to experience more growth than when using other data systems. Customers interviewed by ESG reported that WEKA allows them to eliminate the cost of overprovisioning, while also lowering their overall infrastructure costs by never paying for more cloud storage than they actually need at any given time.