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Hammerspace, the high-performance Data Platform for AI, today announced that several strategic venture investors, who were early backers of transformative companies like NVIDIA, Meta, Palantir, SpaceX and Tesla, have invested $100 million in new strategic growth capital in Hammerspace.

NAB 2025 – Hammerspace, the high-performance data company, today announced that Los Angeles-based creative studio BUCK has selected the Hammerspace high-performance Data Platform to accelerate time-to-deploy new infrastructure and span geographic office locations without disrupting its creative team’s productivity. At the NAB show in booth #SL14416, Hammerspace will be demonstrating how it helps BUCK and other creative and design firms, game development companies, and television and film studios, to provide high-performance content for post-production, visual effects, active archive, and AI-readiness.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced two new additions to its leadership team with the appointment of Gregg Machon as its Global Vice President of Channel Sales and Jeff Echols as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced it has been named a winner of SiliconANGLE Media’s 2025 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards as the “Top Data Storage Innovation.”

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced that it has achieved record-breaking 2024 results and business momentum with 10X revenue growth and a 32% increase in the number of customers for the full-year ended December 31, 2024. Hammerspace also posted strong customer retention and account expansion metrics while growing its leadership position in new geographies. The demands for high-performance data storage, global data access and the paradigm of an orchestrated data world are driving rapid adoption.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the appointment of Jeff Giannetti as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) to support rapid growth in demand around the world for its Global Data Platform. With more than three decades of global sales leadership experience, Giannetti will drive the company’s global sales team to continue to accelerate revenue growth, new customer acquisition, and use case expansion within existing customer environments.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced a strategic collaboration with Supermicro to deliver a powerful, unified data platform tailored for enterprise data centers and hybrid cloud storage. This collaboration allows Supermicro to resell Hammerspace’s cutting-edge software platform on Supermicro servers to serve both file and object storage workloads while meeting the performance and scale demands of modern AI, HPC and hybrid cloud environments.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, announces the significant contributions Hammerspace has made to the Linux kernel, transforming standard Linux servers into powerful platforms for enterprise, AI and HPC file and object storage. These contributions – engineered by Hammerspace and available as part of standard Linux distributions – enable enterprises to achieve unprecedented performance and scalability with trusted, easy-to-deploy open standards. This commitment to standard Linux ensures organizations do not need to install proprietary client software or alter existing storage while still taking advantage of unique Hammerspace features such as a unified global namespace with advanced non-disruptive data orchestration that seamlessly spans vendor silos, multiple data centers and cloud resources.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, has unveiled groundbreaking MLPerf®1.0 benchmark results that highlight the unmatched capabilities of its revolutionary Tier 0 technology, a new tier of ultra-fast shared storage that uses the local NVMe storage in GPU servers. Designed to eliminate storage bottlenecks and maximize GPU performance, Tier 0 transforms GPU computing infrastructure by improving resource utilization and reducing costs for AI, HPC and other data-intensive workloads.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today introduced the latest version of Hammerspace Global Data Platform software, unlocking 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.

Enterprise AI adoption is still in its exploration stages, but companies are finding innovative ways to leverage their GPU investments beyond AI applications and reaping good results, according to a new report from Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, is pleased to announce it is teaming with Arrow Electronics to offer a series of appliances to simplify designing and purchasing the Hammerspace Global Data Platform software.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced that it has been awarded “Best of Show” in the “Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation” category at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage for its work supporting Meta’s AI Research SuperCluster.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced that Chris Lisica, a long-time trusted advisor to customers and leader in managing global customer success teams, has been appointed as Head of Customer Support for the EMEA and APJ regions.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the addition of the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. With today’s announcement, Hammerspace continues to offer organizations new, advantageous ways to manage and leverage data. By adding S3 to all other standard protocols for data ingestion, the Hammerspace platform ensures a seamless and efficient transfer of existing data into a global file system fueled by its automated orchestration system. This expansion enhances accessibility to existing data sets in object storage and optimizes the pipeline across any storage type, allowing infrastructure teams to focus on deriving insights and driving innovation.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced that its Global Data Platform can now be used to process, store and orchestrate data in edge compute environments. This innovative solution combines Gryf, co-designed by SourceCode and GigaIO, the first ever suitcase-sized AI supercomputer, with Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform to bring unprecedented levels of shared AI processing power to any location, including those operating with limited or no networking infrastructure.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the appointment of Mike Snitzer, a long-time leader in the Linux kernel community, as Senior Principal Software Engineer. Snitzer joins Trond Myklebust, Hammerspace CTO, as the second Linux kernel maintainer on the Hammerspace engineering staff.

Hammerspace today announced that the Hammerspace Hyperscale NAS is now generally available with NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage support.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, today unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI, machine learning and deep learning (AI/ML/DL) initiatives and the widespread rise of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud. This new category of storage architecture – Hyperscale NAS – is built on the tenants required for large language model (LLM) training and provides the speed to efficiently power GPU clusters of any size for GenAI, rendering and enterprise high-performance computing.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle for enterprises, today announced the details of its business momentum entering 2024.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, today announced that its Global Data Environment software now incorporates data on any storage option - from flash, NAS, object, cloud and now, tape.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, today released the data architecture being used for training inference for Large Language Models (LLMs) within hyperscale environments. This architecture is the only solution in the world that enables artificial intelligence (AI) technologists to design a unified data architecture that delivers the performance of a super computing-class parallel file system coupled with the ease of application and research access to standard NFS.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader and “Fast Mover” in the GigaOm Radar Reports for High-Performance Cloud File Storage and Distributed Cloud File Storage.

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle for enterprises, today announced $56.7 million in funding in its first round of institutional investment. Hammerspace launched in 2018 with the vision of making all enterprise data globally accessible, useful and indispensable, sparking the next level of business innovations. The funding round, led by Prosperity7 Ventures, also includes Pier 88 Ventures, ARK Invest, and others.

Hammerspace, the leader in data orchestration of enterprise file data to any compute, application, or user anywhere, today announced the acquisition of Rozo Systems. Rozo Systems is the creator of the Mojette Transform, the patented erasure coding technology which, as part of the Hammerspace Data Orchestration System, enables users to maximize performance in any location, expand to hyperscale capacity, and adapt to virtually any workload as it spans from the edge, to data centers, and the cloud.

The 2023 NAB Show – Hammerspace, the leader in data orchestration of enterprise file data on any existing data center infrastructure or public cloud service, today announced the prestigious IABM BaM® Awards 2023 has named Hammerspace the winner in the “Store” category. The category winner results and awards were presented at the awards party on Monday, April 17, at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort.

Hammerspace, the leader in data orchestration of enterprise file data on any existing data center infrastructure or public cloud service, today announced that it will showcase at NAB 2023 Show its data orchestration software solutions that dramatically accelerate media and entertainment workflows across on-premises and cloud infrastructures. With the Hammerspace data orchestration system, studios can transform workflows even on existing systems to better achieve the MovieLabs 2030 Vision of empowering creators to tell more amazing stories while streamlining production workflows to deliver at speeds and efficiency not available today. The 2023 NAB Show will be held in Las Vegas from April 15-19.

Hammerspace, the leader in connecting global Enterprise users and applications with their data on any existing data center infrastructure or public cloud service, today announced major momentum in new customer adoption, expansion in existing customers and new routes to market.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced the opening of its U.S. Federal Division. Civilian agencies and the Department of Defense are focused on data strategies to meet data mandates, reduce infrastructure costs, drive efficiencies and increase innovation. Hammerspace’s Global Data Environment makes it possible to create a secure data cloud that spans infrastructure, clouds, and locations, making data created anywhere accessible to any application, compute resource and data user that needs it.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the global data environment, is collaborating with Seagate® Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX) to provide bundles that simplify the deployment of global data solutions for data-centric businesses that constantly collect, generate and manage obscure and large data sets from sources such as company networks, employee or customer personal devices, and the connected Internet of Things (IoT). The bundles are provided through Climb Channel Solutions with special pricing for deals booked by March 31, 2022. The bundles include the software, edge hardware or cloud capacity needed to present data at the edge, in the data center and in the cloud in a single global file system.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the global data environment, today unveiled the performance capabilities that many of the most data-intensive organizations in the world depend on for high-performance data and storage in decentralized workflows. Hammerspace completely changes previously held notions of how unstructured data architectures can work, delivering the performance needed to free workloads from data silos, eliminate copy proliferation, and provide direct data access to applications and users, no matter where the data is stored.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, has a mission to enable the agile global workforce and agile global compute with an agile global data environment. Today, it introduced another leap forward for the data-driven global workforce with the Hammerspace Metadata Plugin, User Initiated File Protection, and an Automated File Reservation. Hammerspace also announced a new integration with Alchemi Data Elasticsearch. These capabilities enable users to better access, collaborate and get more value from their files globally from their desktop, regardless of which vendor system the data is stored within.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced massive momentum across enterprise, finance, government, higher education, retail, and research organizations looking to Hammerspace to make their data a global asset across data centers and public and private clouds. The company’s momentum was also fueled by growing adoption across cloud platforms and regions, workflow integrations with technology partners, and solid operational execution in all areas of its business.

IBC2022— Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced an expansion of its technology alliance partners that are making the decentralized cloud a reality. Cloud-based applications and compute clusters, remote workers, and distributed data sets have changed data access requirements for data-driven enterprise organizations. Workflows increasingly need to run across a decentralized cloud to power applications and compute with unstructured data created at the edge, in the data center, in different cloud regions and with multiple cloud vendors.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced that it has been recognized as a Sample Vendor in the 2022 Gartner report “Hype Cycle™ for Storage and Data Protection Technologies.” [1]

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced the appointment of John Harechmak as the new Worldwide Vice President of Systems Engineering and Customer Success. In this role, Harechmak leads the solution architect team, oversees post-sales implementation and customer education, and ensures ongoing customer success. With Harechmak, Hammerspace rounds out a talented senior leadership team with a wealth of technology experience from organizations including Avere, Cohesity, DataDirect Networks (DDN), Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), FusionIO, NetApp, Panzura, Quantum, Qumulo, and Veritas/Symantec, among others.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced a technology collaboration with Seagate® Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX) to bring automated data orchestration and unified data access across Seagate’s Lyve™ Cloud and Exos CORVAULT. The collaboration enables customers to combine the benefits of leveraging Seagate’s S3-compatible public cloud storage-as-a-service platform with the ability to bring together all their edge, distributed datacenter, and cloud data into a consolidated, consumable resource within a Global Data Environment.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced that Jellyfish Pictures has deployed Hammerspace to advance the company’s virtual studio strategy and fuel ongoing massive business growth. The Hammerspace Global Data Environment is the first technology Jellyfish has found that enables content to be utilized with high-performance local access by artists wherever they work and allows rendering to be performed in any cloud region without creating workflow inefficiencies or multiple copies of data. Deploying Hammerspace has enabled Jellyfish to continue to take on new projects without the worry of finding sufficient local creative talent. Plus, it saves the company an average of 20 percent on cloud rendering projects by enabling content and leveraging the most cost-effective cloud compute region without concern for where the content was created. The Hammerspace approach can drive millions of dollars in savings annually if substantial public cloud resources need to be used for burst rendering.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced it has expanded its European presence to provide organizations with ability to consolidate datacenter and cloud storage while orchestrating global data to decentralized applications and users.

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced the creation of its Executive Advisory Board, comprised of globally recognized leaders who will provide strategic guidance for the company’s mission of making data a global resource for innovation and development. The Hammerspace Executive Advisory Board members, renowned leaders from across the government, technology, finance and investment communities, include:

Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced the addition of Floyd Christofferson as VP of Product Marketing to lead the strategic planning and development of the tools, features, and capabilities to unleash the full potential of a Global Data Environment to optimize workflows. With Christofferson, Hammerspace rounds out a talented leadership team with a wealth of technology experience from Avere, DataDirect Networks (DDN), Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), FusionIO, NetApp, Panzura, Quantum, Qumulo, and Veritas/Symantec, among others.

Hammerspace today unveiled the first Global Data Environment that breaks down the boundaries of data access for users and applications anywhere in the world to create, process, store, and protect data on any existing data center or preferred cloud infrastructure. Organizations have struggled for decades with the challenge of using file data outside the data center where it was created. This limitation is holding back the speed of research, innovation, and growth of data-driven businesses.