Episode 14 - Weka
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I talk with Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder and CEO at Weka. Weka has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. WekaFS delivers high performance, low latency storage. Weka provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. With customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment.
Weka was founded in 2014 and is based San Francisco.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
NVMe, DELL, HPE, nVidia, SuperMicro, Cisco, Mellenox, Infiniband, Linux
Web: https://wkea.io
WekaFS Tech Deep Dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn7VGbiO9Us
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Great Things with Great Tech. |
| 0:11.3 | This is episode 14. |
| 0:13.3 | My name is Anthony Svateri, and this podcast is all about companies doing great things with great technology. |
| 0:19.1 | And in this episode, it's a great pleasure to be talking to Loran Zvibeel, co-founder and CEO |
| 0:24.3 | at Weka. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the show, Lauren. |
| 0:27.8 | Thank you, Anthony. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm very happy to be here. |
| 0:30.6 | Excellent. |
| 0:31.2 | So just before we get into Weka and everything about storage and file systems, just a reminder |
| 0:37.4 | that if you love great things with great tech and you would like to feature |
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| 1:09.8 | let's get into Weka. |
| 1:11.9 | Just before we start, |
| 1:13.0 | a bit of interesting sort of research I did. |
| 1:15.7 | So Weka, if I'm not mistaking, |
| 1:17.9 | it's like a power of 10. |
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