WekaIO expands its AI and HPC storage solutions offerings in Central Europe.

WekaIO, the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, announced the opening of an office in Germany and the appointment of Kim Gardner as Regional Sales Manager. Gardner will lead the rapid market expansion of Matrix in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH), continuing the growth trajectory already established in the US and other markets.

"We have many customer deployments in artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), finance, media entertainment, and genomics in the US and UK," said Richard Dyke, VP of Sales at WekaIO. "The opportunities inherent in Germany's fully-fledged AI and HPC sector made this the next logical target for us and prompted our expansion into this fertile market."

Launching Matrix in DACH will help companies dramatically improve storage performance while reducing storage management overhead and delivering the best price/value offering in the region. Matrix is an NVMe-native, highly resilient parallel file system that runs on commodity servers, delivering the highest bandwidth and lowest latency performance to any InfiniBand or Ethernet enabled GPU- or CPU-based cluster. The solution provides a 10x improvement in throughput and 8x improvement in IOPS at less than half the cost of traditional network attached storage (NAS).

Kim Gardner brings over 25 years of experience in the storage industry. He has serviced the DACH and greater European markets with solutions from Pure Storage, Panasas, Avere Systems, and most recently Quobyte. WekaIO demonstrated Matrix at the International Supercomputing Expo (ISC'19) held June 16-20, 2019, in Frankfurt, Germany, at Stand B-1253.

WekaIO helps companies manage, scale, and futureproof their data centers to solve real problems that impact the world. WekaIO Matrix, the world's fastest shared parallel file system and the company's flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering simplicity, scale, and the best performance density per U for a fraction of the cost. In the cloud or on-premises, WekaIO's NVMe-native high-performance software-defined storage solution removes barriers between the data and compute layer, thus accelerating artificial intelligence, machine learning, genomics, research, and analytics workloads.