WekaIO Expands AI Storage Solutions in EMEA
CAMPBELL, Calif., May 18, 2021 -- WekaIO (Weka), a fast-growing data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, and high-performance data analytics (HPDA), today announced the opening of an office in EMEA, along with the appointment of Ryan Taylor as Senior Sales Director. Taylor, a seasoned storage veteran, is tasked with expanding Weka’s business across the region to further international growth within the ecosystem and targeted markets.
Taylor has had a successful 20-year career in the storage industry building teams, channels, and direct sales in various senior-level positions. He comes to Weka from Quantum, where he served as the EMEA sales lead specialist for the continuation of the ActiveScale business after its acquisition from Western Digital, driving hundreds of petabytes of business and supporting customers and partners. Taylor was a key contributor to organizations such as Virident and BlueArc prior to their respective acquisitions. Taylor will be heading Weka's existing personnel plus an expanded EMEA team that includes Systems Engineer Mark Lucas and Regional Sales Manager Adrian Burch.
Weka has found success delivering modern storage architecture solutions to a variety of multimillion-dollar customers throughout Europe. Among the companies having deployed Weka-based solutions are Genomics England (GEL), Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Scania, and Untold Studios.
Weka’s Limitless Data Platform is built on the 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.
“As workloads change and needs evolve, companies are constantly searching for solutions that will help them accomplish their business objectives without adding complexity and inefficiencies,” said Chris Powers, VP and GM, Collaborative Platforms and Big Data at HPE. “The HPE Complete Program provides customers purpose-built HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 and DL325 Gen10 Plus All-NVMe servers combined with Weka to deliver highly accelerated file storage capabilities to support extreme-performance data analytics environments, including for machine learning, Financial Services, and Life Sciences. We look forward to increased opportunities to enable customer success as Weka expands its presence throughout the EMEA region.”
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
Source: WekaIO
