WekaIO Named Finalist in 2021 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards

Business awards program recognizes WekaFS for facilitating AI and solving real problems.

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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), today announced that it has been named a finalist in The Business Intelligence Group’s inaugural Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. The Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards recognizes those organizations and products that are truly unique and making an impact on the market.

Weka’s Limitless Data Platform™ is built on a shareable, scalable, and distributed file storage system (WekaFS™). 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.

“AI is transforming nearly every aspect of our lives,” said Liran Zvibel, co-founder and CEO at WekaIO. “Companies are quickly discovering that successful AI initiatives depend on a storage infrastructure that delivers speed, simplicity, and incredible scalability. We launched Weka AI™ last year, a transformative solutions framework underpinned by WekaFS, to deliver production-ready solutions and accelerate MLOps by solving the storage challenges common with IO-intensive workloads such as AI. We are glad that Weka is recognized by The Business Intelligence Group for empowering chief data officers, data scientists, and data engineers to accelerate genomics, medical imaging, the financial services industry (FSI), and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) machine learning (ML) pipelines.”

“We are so proud to name Weka as a finalist in our inaugural Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program,” said Maria Jimenez, chief nominations officer for Business Intelligence Group. “It was clear to our judges that Weka is facilitating AI initiatives for their customers that are improving lives. Congratulations to the entire team!”

WekaIO has received multiple awards in the past few months, including Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, Data Breakthrough Award, Flash Memory Summit Best of Show, TechTarget Enterprise Data Storage Product of the Year Award, and Aragon Research Hot Vendor in AI.

To find a WekaFS authorized reseller in the Weka Innovation Network™ (WIN), go to https://www.weka.io/partners.

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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.

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