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/PRNewswire/ -- From RAISE SUMMIT 2025: WEKA unveiled NeuralMesh Axon, a breakthrough storage system that leverages an innovative fusion architecture designed...
WEKA has unveiled NeuralMesh Axon, a breakthrough storage system designed to enhance AI workload performance and efficiency. This new offering addresses the challenges of running exascale AI applications by integrating seamlessly with GPU servers and AI factories. Early adopters like Cohere have reported significant performance improvements, such as reducing inference deployment times from five minutes to 15 seconds. NeuralMesh Axon is currently in limited release for large-scale enterprise AI and neocloud customers, with general availability expected in fall 2025. The system is designed to optimize GPU utilization, reduce infrastructure costs, and support rapid AI innovation cycles. Partners like CoreWeave and NVIDIA are involved in deploying this technology to improve AI infrastructure.
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/PRNewswire/ -- WEKA today unveiled a revolutionary advancement in AI data infrastructure with the debut of NeuralMesh™, a powerful new software-defined...
WEKA has introduced NeuralMesh, a revolutionary AI data infrastructure system designed to optimize AI environments by providing a scalable, resilient, and efficient storage solution. NeuralMesh is built to support the growing demands of AI innovation, particularly in the age of reasoning and agentic AI. The system offers microsecond latency, self-healing capabilities, and flexible deployment options, making it suitable for enterprises and hyperscale service providers. NeuralMesh is currently in limited release, with general availability expected in fall 2025. The system is designed to maximize GPU utilization, reduce costs, and support AI development at an exascale level.
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/PRNewswire/ -- WEKA, the AI-native data platform company, and Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS), a leading AI infrastructure company, today announced a partnership that...
WEKA, an AI-native data platform company, has partnered with Nebius, a leading AI infrastructure company, to deliver a GPU-as-a-Service solution. This collaboration integrates WEKAs advanced data storage software with Nebius AI cloud platform, enabling customers to scale compute and storage resources efficiently. The partnership aims to address challenges in AI model training and inference by providing a high-performance, scalable platform. A leading research institution has already adopted this solution for large-scale AI experimentation. The partnership is expected to enhance AI innovation by optimizing infrastructure performance and efficiency.
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/PRNewswire/ -- From GTC 2025: WEKA, the AI-native data platform company, announced it is integrating with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design and has...
/PRNewswire/ -- From Supercomputing 2024: WEKA, the AI-native data platform company, debuted a new reference architecture solution to simplify and streamline...
WEKA, an AI-native data platform company, has introduced the WEKA AI RAG Reference Platform (WARRP) to streamline the development of enterprise AI inferencing environments. This new architecture provides a comprehensive modular solution for building robust inferencing infrastructure frameworks using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The platform is designed to enhance AI model accuracy and reduce retraining cycles by efficiently retrieving and contextualizing data. WARRP integrates with leading AI frameworks from NVIDIA and Run:ai, offering flexibility and scalability across various cloud environments. The platform aims to simplify the deployment of AI workloads, providing a blueprint for organizations to develop and implement RAG-based AI inferencing pipelines. WEKA has partnered with NVIDIA, Run:ai, and others to deliver this solution, which is now available for free download.
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/PRNewswire/ -- From Supercomputing 2024: WEKA, the AI-native data platform company, previewed the industry's first high-performance storage solution for the...
WEKA, an AI-native data platform company, has unveiled a new high-performance storage solution at Supercomputing 2024. This solution, developed in partnership with NVIDIA, Arm, and Supermicro, is designed to enhance enterprise AI deployments by offering exceptional performance density and energy savings. The storage solution leverages the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip, WEKA Data Platform software, and Arm Neoverse V2 cores to accelerate AI workloads. Key benefits include extreme speed, scalability, optimal resource utilization, and exceptional energy efficiency. The solution aims to address the growing energy consumption of data centers while boosting AI performance. It will be commercially available in early 2025. WEKAs collaboration with its partners highlights its commitment to driving AI innovation and sustainability in data centers.
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/PRNewswire/ -- WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, unveiled two new WEKApod™ data platform appliances today: the WEKApod Nitro for large-scale...
WekaIO, an AI-native data platform company, has launched two new data platform appliances: WEKApod Nitro and WEKApod Prime. These appliances are designed to provide scalable, high-performance data solutions for AI deployments. WEKApod Nitro is tailored for large-scale enterprise AI applications, offering over 18 million IOPS in a single cluster, while WEKApod Prime is suited for smaller-scale AI deployments with flexible configurations. Both products aim to meet the growing demand for efficient and cost-effective AI infrastructure, enabling organizations to accelerate AI projects and reduce costs. The launch is expected to positively impact WekaIO by attracting new customers and enhancing its reputation in the AI infrastructure market.
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/PRNewswire/ -- WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, announced today that it has been named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for...
WekaIO, an AI-native data platform company, has been recognized as a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for File & Object Storage Platforms. This recognition highlights the companys WEKA Data Platform software solution for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. WekaIOs platform provides integrated file and object storage capabilities, designed to manage unstructured data and support performance-intensive workloads across various environments. The company aims to address the challenges of traditional data infrastructure by offering a unified platform for modern data-intensive applications. This recognition aligns with the companys vision of transforming enterprise data strategies in the AI era. The report by Gartner predicts a significant shift towards consolidated storage platforms for unstructured data by 2029.
WEKA Nets $140M in Series E Funding at $1.6B Valuation
AI-native data platform company, WekaIO, has raised $140 million in an oversubscribed Series E funding round led by Valor Equity Partners. The round, which also saw participation from NVIDIA, Generation Investment Management, Atreides Management, and others, brings WekaIOs post-money valuation to $1.6 billion. The funds will be used to scale the business and meet the increasing global demand for AI-native data infrastructure. The company plans to expand its investments in developing its data platform software. Valors founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer, Antonio Gracias, will join WekaIOs board.
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WEKA Launches Sustainable AI Initiative
WekaIO has launched a new Sustainable AI Initiative to address the energy and carbon impact of AI technologies. The company aims to raise awareness, ignite conversations, and identify solutions to mitigate AIs environmental impact. WekaIO plans to make climate-positive investments, partner with industry leaders, and engage with political, scientific, business, and technology communities to promote more efficient and sustainable use of AI. As a first step, WekaIO is partnering with One Tree Planted to contribute to global reforestation projects. The company will plant 20,000 trees in 2023 and commit to planting ten trees for every petabyte of software it sells annually. WekaIO recognizes that reforestation is just one piece of the decarbonization puzzle and is committed to finding ways to make AI and the entire enterprise data stack more sustainable.
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Data management platform WEKA raises $135 million at $750 million valuation | CTech
Israeli startup WekaIO has raised $135 million in a Series D funding round led by Generation Investment Management. The funding round doubled the companys valuation since its previous round in January. WekaIO, founded in 2013, has developed a data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning, life sciences research, and high-performance computing. The company plans to use the funds to become profitable by 2024. The investment is part of Generations Sustainable Solutions Fund IV, which focuses on green data companies. WekaIOs Series D funding comes after the company experienced significant growth, with a 232% annualized run rate growth.
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Office Tour: WEKA Offices - Tel Aviv
Ilana Moskovitz Interior Architecture & Design has completed the office design for WEKA, a software-defined storage company located in Tel Aviv, Israel. The office spans 1000 square meters and features unique landmarks such as floating color meeting rooms and art exhibitions in a working environment. The design incorporates a variety of materials and colors, including fish-bone wood floor, concrete, and black & white granite tiles. The project aims to create a connection between art and the working environment, as well as between color and monochromaticity. The office design is growth-positive for the company.
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Hitachi Content Platform integrates WekaIO file storage
Hitachi Vantara has refreshed its object storage with new all-flash nodes that integrate scale-out file storage from OEM partner WekaIO. The second-generation Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) G-11 all-flash nodes include software enhancements to improve capacity, scale, and performance. The integrated file-and-object system is slated to be generally available later this year. The partnership between Hitachi and WekaIO aims to provide a complete solution for customers and optimize WekaFS for the Hitachi server. This move allows Hitachi to support larger application scripts running real-time analytics and expands its portfolio for unstructured data. WekaIO, a startup, completes in a market dominated by large vendors. The partnership with Hitachi gives WekaIO access to newer customers.
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Council Post: Data Management In The Age Of AI
The article discusses the concept of accelerated DataOps and its importance in managing data for descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, and cognitive analytics. It highlights the challenges faced by organizations in implementing accelerated DataOps, such as multi-workload convergence, the need for trusted and explainable AI, and the rise of EdgeAI. The article emphasizes the importance of breaking organizational silos, building next-generation data lakes, and leveraging reference architecture and SDKs to enable accelerated DataOps. The impact on the company is growth-positive as it positions Weka.IO as a leader in providing solutions for accelerated DataOps. The key theme of the article is the importance of efficient data management for AI and business intelligence pipelines. The article does not mention any specific customers, partners, investment or acquisition amounts, layoffs, or the date of the event.
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WekaIO Recognized as a Coolest Cloud Company by CRN
WekaIO has been named one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Companies of 2020 by CRN. The recognition highlights WekaIOs originality, innovation, and success in the cloud computing industry. WekaIO has made significant strides in supporting channel partners and offering complete solutions for transitioning to the cloud. The company has also achieved the fastest file system in the world and experienced explosive growth in 2019. WekaIOs channel-centric approach and investment in a dedicated channel sales and marketing team have contributed to its success. The companys file system has enabled customer success in research, genomics, AI, and machine learning. The recognition further cements WekaIOs position as a leader in cloud solutions.
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WekaIO Awarded Two Patents
Israeli data storage co WekaIO raises $31.7m
Israeli data storage startup WekaIO has raised $31.7 million in a Series C financing round from strategic investors including Nvidia, Qualcomm, and HP. The funds will be used to expand the companys marketing network worldwide and its development offices in Tel Aviv. WekaIO develops data storage and file management systems for AI and has raised a total of $66.7 million to date. The company plans to hire 50 more people for its Tel Aviv office in the coming year. WekaIOs technology streamlines data storage within enterprises and the cloud, allowing for more efficient storage and transmission of AI applications. The company sells its products to companies in the automotive and health sectors through server platforms such as Amazons AWS.
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Data Storage Startup WekaIO Appoints New CTO
WekaIO, Inc. has appointed Andy Watson as its chief technology officer. The appointment is expected to have a positive impact on the companys growth. WekaIO develops scalable file storage for data heavy applications and has raised $32 million in investment. Watson previously served as the CTO at Minio, Inc., a cloud-based data storage company.
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China's TuSimple Selects Flash-based Storage System to Train Autonomous Driving Algorithms
Chinas autonomous trucks company TuSimple has selected WekaIOs flash-based storage system to accelerate its deep neural network machine learning training. TuSimple raised $55 million in a Series C funding round in November and is backed by chip company Nvidia.
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Israeli data storage co Weka.IO raises $32m
Israeli data storage company Weka.IO has closed a Series B funding round, raising over $32 million. The funding will be used to accelerate the companys go-to-market strategy and expand sales and marketing in the USA. Weka.IOs software defined storage (SDS) technology simplifies storage deployment in the datacenter. The company plans to continue building its engineering team and customer support and business teams in multiple locations. The technology scales storage to hundreds of Petabytes, tens of millions of IOPs, with sub-millisecond latency at cloud economics.
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