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Episode 14 - Weka- Great Things with Great Tech
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Intro (0:00)
Weka Introduction (1:10)
Funding and Investors (3:48)
The What and How of WekaFS (5:20)
Linear Scalability of WekaFS (9:50)
How Weka uses NVMe and SSD to scale metadata and files (12:05)
Leveraging Ethernet and Infiniband (14:50)
POSIX Filesystem (16:25)
Software defined running on Commodity Hardware (17:55)
Bursting out to AWS using Amazon S3 (19:50)
Weka for Big Data, Genomics and fighting Covid (26:00)
Weka Core Innovation and continuing to internally disrupt (30:35)
Wrap-Up and Shoutouts (33:58)
In this episode I talk with Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder and CEO at #Weka. Weka has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. WekaFS delivers high performance, low latency storage. Weka provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. With customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, #genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment.
Weka was founded in 2014 and is based San Francisco.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
NVMe, DELL, HPE, nVidia, SuperMicro, Cisco, Mellenox, Infiniband, Linux
Web: https://wkea.io
WekaFS Tech Deep Dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn7VGbiO9Us
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