WekaIO adds enterprise features to scale-out NAS file system
Summary
WekaIO – which recently announced newly secured funding to the tune of $31.7m – has developed a file system that allows rapid access, via flash storage in particular, to very large sets of unstructured data. It claims it has superseded the restrictions of network file system (NFS) – developed in the 1980s – and that its performance therefore surpasses that of rivals such as NetApp and Dell EMC’s Isilon scale-out NAS. It is faster than a local file system.” WekaIO is targeting workloads that need access to large amounts of unstructured data, including in machine learning, financial analytics, life sciences and engineering design. The same WekaIO file system can also run in the Amazon cloud, to which customers can burst workloads when needed. A further feature added in the 3.5 release is the ability to tier to the cloud and also use it as a disaster recovery location, something which was previously only possible with use of a third-party product.
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