Hammerspace is a finalist in theCUBE Technology Innovation Awards for "Most Innovative Tech Startup Leaders" for CEO and co-founder David Flynn, the "HyperCUBEd Innovation Award - Private Company" and "Top Data Storage Innovation."
SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, has been recognized as a finalist in three categories of theCUBE Technology Innovation Awards, including "Most Innovative Tech Startup Leaders" for CEO and co-founder David Flynn, the "HyperCUBEd Innovation Award - Private Company" and "Top Data Storage Innovation." Winners will be announced on February 18.
Judged by a panel of top-ranked enterprise technology analysts, the awards program recognizes the world's most innovative companies, groundbreaking products and out-of-the-box thinkers driving the tech industry forward.
"Innovation isn't about small steps—it's about leaps that reshape industries. Hammerspace is doing just that by dismantling the barriers of legacy data storage and unlocking unprecedented power for AI and modern enterprises," said Flynn. "These nominations affirm what we've known all along: we're not just innovating; we're setting the new standard."
The Most Innovative Tech Startup Leaders honors exceptional individuals from a B2B tech company who have significantly advanced the industry through groundbreaking ideas, leadership and execution.
Flynn is a recognized IT innovator known for architecting disruptive computing platforms. As founder and CEO of Fusion-io, he pioneered placing flash storage closer to the CPU, reducing latency and improving performance. His vision for Hammerspace was to create a standards-based platform that unifies high-performance file access and automates non-disruptive data orchestration to bridge existing storage silos from any vendor, and without requiring enterprises to abandon existing IT architectures.
The HyperCUBEd Innovation Award recognizes companies that have consistently pushed the boundaries of technology and demonstrated unparalleled creativity in developing new solutions and demonstrated results.
The Top Data Storage Innovation award recognizes a data storage solution that excels in providing robust, scalable and high-performance storage capabilities for modern enterprises as requirements for storing data evolve in the AI era or due to other factors.
Hammerspace's Global Data Platform revolutionizes the management of data and storage in a world where digital assets can no longer be locked into a single vendor's ecosystem. It enables organizations to use existing storage resources without compromising the ability to explore AI/DL and other next-generation uses to extract unrealized value from their data, wherever it may be.
The latest version of Hammerspace's software unlocks a new tier of storage by transforming local NVMe storage on GPU servers into a Tier 0 of ultra-fast, persistent shared storage. By activating this previously "stranded" local NVMe storage seamlessly into the Hammerspace Global Data Platform, Tier 0 delivers data directly to GPUs at local NVMe speeds, unleashing untapped potential and redefining both GPU computing performance and storage efficiency.
Learn More:
- Hammerspace Product Page: Global Data Platform
- Press Release: Hammerspace Transforms GPU Computing Infrastructure as First to Unlock a New Tier of Ultra-Fast Shared Storage
- Data Unchained Podcast: Episode 73 | Introducing Tier 0 w/ David Flynn
- eBook: Hyperscale NAS For Dummies: Hammerspace Special Edition
- Get Started with Hammerspace
About Hammerspace
Hammerspace is radically changing how unstructured data is used and preserved. Our Global Data Platform unifies unstructured data across edge, data centers, and clouds. It provides extreme parallel performance for AI, GPUs, and high-speed data analytics, and orchestrates data to any location and any storage system. This eliminates data silos and makes data an instantly accessible resource for users, applications, and compute clusters, no matter where they are located.
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