ISC: New Office in Germany for WekaIO

WekaIO, Inc. announced the opening of an office in Germany, along with the appointment of Kim Gardner as sales manager.

Gardner, a seasoned storage veteran, will continue the rapid market expansion of Matrix in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) that has been seen in the US and other markets. With over 25 years of experience in the industry. He has serviced the DACH and greater European markets with solutions from Pure Storage, Panasas, Avere Systems, and most recently Quobyte.

“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 sales, 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 improve storage performance, while reducing storage management overhead delivering the best price/value offering in the region. The software is an NVMe-native, resilient parallel file system that runs on commodity servers, delivering high bandwidth, low latency performance to any IB or Ethernet enabled GPU- or CPU-based cluster. It provides a 10x improvement in throughput and 8x improvement in IO/s at less than half the cost of traditional NAS.

See WekaIO Matrix demonstrated at International Supercomputing Expo (ISC’19), June 16-20, 2019, in Frankfurt, Germany