The Future of AI and HPC Data
A Philosophy of Openness and Flexibility
Built on Open Standards, Not Proprietary Lock-in
Data-in-Place Access, Not Forced Migrations
Increase Performance on Existing Hardware, Not Just New Arrays
Automated Data Orchestration, Not Manual Data Movement
How Hammerspace Compares
Not all data platforms are created equal. Many solutions use similar language but are built on legacy architectures for simpler problems.
These systems force you to choose between performance and flexibility. They create new silos and lock you into proprietary hardware.
Hammerspace is fundamentally different. We are The High-Performance Data Platform for AI Anywhere, built to Unify your data, Automate your workflows, and Accelerate your AI models with open, standards-based technology.
Features | NAS | HPC File Systems | Hammerspace |
|---|---|---|---|
Easy to Connect, Plug-N-Play | |||
Easy to Connect, Plug-N-Play | |||
| Enterprise Data Services | |||
Enterprise Data Services | |||
| HPC-Class Performance | |||
HPC-Class Performance | |||
| Cost-Effective at Scale | |||
Cost-Effective at Scale | |||
| Multi-Site, Hybrid-Cloud | |||
Multi-Site, Hybrid-Cloud | |||
Scale-Out NAS
Instead of funneling data access through siloed NAS controllers, Hammerspace unifies all your storage from any vendor with a scalable parallel global file system. Coupled with Hammerspace’s accelerated data orchestration services, this eliminates hotspots and data‑gravity issues, ensuring consistent high performance for demanding AI, HPC, and general enterprise use cases, regardless of where your data is stored.
High-Performance AI Platforms
We use standard, open protocols—pNFSv4.2, S3, SMB, and NFS—that you already use today, without modification. There’s no proprietary software to install and no vendor‑specific hardware to buy. You gain elite performance from the infrastructure you already own, while avoiding the cost and risk of proprietary ecosystems.
Managed Lustre / Other HPC FIle Systems
We deliver the parallel file system performance you expect from traditional HPC systems but without the complexity or operational overhead. Hammerspace extends a single global namespace across any storage type—including cloud and object—and automates data orchestration, something these legacy systems were never designed to do.
Cloud-Native File Services
Cloud‑specific services like Managed Lustre perform well within their own ecosystems but require large‑scale data migrations. Hammerspace provides a unified data plane that seamlessly extends your on‑premises data resources to any cloud‑based environment. Automated data services orchestrate workloads to the optimal compute resources for each job, minimizing costly data movement and preserving true multi‑cloud freedom.
Hybrid Cloud NAS
Hybrid Cloud NAS is designed to consolidate office files into a central cloud repository. Hammerspace is a true parallel global file system that unifies on‑premises and cloud storage into a single namespace, accelerating distributed, performance‑intensive workloads. We non‑disruptively orchestrate data to the appropriate compute resources for each workload in the background, ensuring your applications and GPUs are never kept waiting and user access to data is never interrupted.