Clustered Conversations by WEKA

Join in as Chris Zurich from WEKA’s Federal discusses how to track and secure data with multiple workloads, maximize resource constrained data, build an efficient system with edge, and why WEKA is the simple solution everyone’s been waiting for.

Jacob Farmer, Starfish Software, joins WEKA to discuss the benefits of managing the data assets across the cloud and on-premises deployments of the WEKA Data Platform to quickly catalog and provide a method to move data to the right locations based on customer criteria and the important role metadata plays in it all.

The future is the cloud and WEKA wants to help you get there. Listen in as WEKA’s Head of Cloud Enablement, Eyal David discusses why the cloud is the place to invest and how easy WEKA can integrate into existing systems.

If technology is only half of it, what’s in the other half? Mark III joins WEKA to talk about its unique, and somewhat haphazard, journey in building an all-star team to support organizations today building their AI Centers of Excellence and why assembling diverse teams of builders, creators, and IT operators all working together is the future.

Dreaming of unlimited clusters? Tenstorrent joins WEKA to discuss opportunities of customizing all cluster components for optimal workload performance - from storage to fabric to memory to chiplets. We’re beginning the era of unimpaired ML pipeline design.

Facing increasing data loss as signal speed accelerates? Listen in as Astera Labs joins WEKA in discussing the benefits of Green Computing, why faster signals do not have to correlate to increased data issues, the incredible implications of CXL on memory, storage and sharing, and lastly, how they have changed the game with the use of Artificial Intelligence.

This week on the podcast, we’re going International. We’re joined by Rui Gomes from atNorth. atNorth, headquartered in Iceland, has recently deployed WEKA for its HPC and AI workloads. Rui explains his WEKA journey and how atNorth using WEKA, can offer their customers HPC-as-a-service with the best performance and price point.

Tom Taylor from Gunpowder joins our hosts and shares his stance on the cloud and if it’s here to stay. Then he unpacks his initial storage-envy when he first saw WEKA from performance off of the object tier, technical support, and how WEKA on GCP and WEKA on AWS enables media & entertainment companies to support artists globally.

WEKA’s very own David Chapa joins Clustered Conversations. Chapa has a long history in the industry, but even he was pleasantly surprised with WEKA’s Data Platform capabilities. Our hosts, Bob and Josh, discuss some of their AHA moments from cloud capabilities to unheard-of performance and interesting customer use cases.

WEKA’s Chief Architect and Co-Founder, Maor Ben Dayan, sits down with our hosts, Bob and Josh, and discuss the history of the industry and key technological advances over the years.

Maor’s had a front-row seat at WEKA from the beginning and plays a tremendous role in technological innovation at WEKA, with 10s of patents to his name. They delve into Raspberry Pi possibilities, the construction worker shortage slowing innovation in some markets, and more. The conversations surely take some interesting twists and turns, but we promise they wrap it all together.

This time on Clustered Conversations, our hosts Bob & Josh are joined by Omar from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. With 1/2 an exabyte, hold onto your hats for this episode because the rollercoaster of topics are like none other before. After all, were you expecting to hear about defending the Earth and how playing soccer is a possible key to success in life alongside technical discussions? That’s right, me neither. So kick back, relax, and grab some popcorn as we dive into a sea of fun and engineering.

Hey listeners! Your hosts, Bob & Josh, are back at it again with a new episode featuring Tyler Nelson from Kioxia. Take off with the three as they discuss how and why Toshiba became Kioxia, brand recognition projects, and the future of workloads with their move to GPUs. Who knows, this episode might even have rockets and flames too!

Today on the podcast, our esteemed hosts are joined by WEKA's CPO, Nilesh Patel. Sit back and relax while you hear about Nilesh's story coming to WEKA, and switch gears with the three as they discuss inefficiencies with how data is being handled today.

In this episode, our hosts Bob and Josh are joined by none other than the CEO of WEKA, Liran Zvibel. Sit back, relax, and enjoy as the three reminisce about all things storage, as well as gain a little bit of insight into WEKA's past and how the company got to where it is today.

In this episode, our hosts Bob & Josh are joined by David Gilinsky, and the trio discusses customer satisfaction and how it's a win-win situation for everyone involved. 

At WEKA, customer satisfaction is our business, and business is good!

On this episode, our hosts Bob & Josh are joined by Jason Hardy, CTO at Hitachi Vantara as the three discuss the necessity of being able to solve truly ‘big’ problems and how emerging technologies are changing the game, as well as their partnership and what they expect to work on in the future.

Join our hosts Bob & Josh as they announce how WEKA has saved the world and discuss WEKA 4, which enables the “impossible” workloads to be run anywhere - on-premises, hybrid, and in the cloud.

Our hosts Bob and Josh talk with Steve Miller (from Intel, not the rock-n-roll band) as the three discuss the necessity of having a strong resilient data storage system to avoid the wrath that ensues when data is lost.

Listen in to be truly convinced why WEKA’s solution is unstoppable and have a good laugh during it!

Shimon Ben David, WEKA’s CTO, shares his journey starting at WEKA in Israel and moving over to the Bay Area to open the WEKA US office.

Unlike standard storage solutions, WEKA’s Data Platform is software-defined creating insane flexibility. As the industry advances, WEKA can pivot with it, making the future hard to predict.

We’re seeing an explosion of data and tons of changes in the market on multiple fronts from - mainstream AI, accelerators, containers, DevOps, cloud, hardware, and everything in between.

This rapid pace of innovation can make your head spin. Tune in for some clarity!

Brian Mitchell joins Josh & Bob from the “Hollywood of the East,” AKA Atlanta.

When time is of the essence but “we'll fix it in post” is always the solution, it’s critical that all your systems can communicate with one another.

WEKA is ready to rock-n-roll - No tuning, it simply speaks with all your favorite apps like Amazon Nimble Studios, Arch Studios, and Autodesk Flame.

WEKA’s resident EDA expert, Dave Unger, joins our hosts Bob & Josh and drops some use-case truth bombs.

“Cloud will never happen,” said every EDA guy/gal just a few short years ago. Tune in to learn the factors that led to the mindset change in EDA accompanied by lots of chuckles.

EDA projects have two distinct workloads which created optimization tradeoffs, leading to a classic game of whack-a-mole. The tradeoff ends now. Good, fast, cheap – you can have it all.

Holy Sh*t - The performance 23andMe saw on the AWS cloud nearly seems like science-FICTION. Bob & Josh are live from AWS Summit and discuss our customer 23andMe's presentation on leveraging AWS for ultimate flexibility.

Welcome to Clustered Conversations!
Your hosts Bob Bakh and Josh Hampton nerd out on all things WEKA, storage, data, and bleeding-edge customer projects. They remanence (well, maybe cringe) on the storage industry standards that were wildly accepted for decades. Flash forward to today, WEKA’s performance is faster than anyone could have ever fathomed back then.