Award-Winning Global Data Platform Meets Regional Market Demand for Data Orchestration
SAN MATEO, Calif. – February 27, 2025 – Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced a strategic expansion into Japan, marking a significant milestone in the company’s rapid growth.
This expansion follows a year of remarkable success, with the company reporting record growth, with customer adoption rising 32% YoY and revenue increasing by 10x across multiple regions.
The launch in Japan represents a key component of Hammerspace’s APAC growth strategy, addressing the increasing demand from Japanese enterprises for advanced data orchestration solutions that support artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing and other GPU-intensive applications.
Through strategic partnerships with Core MicroSystems (CMS) and others, Hammerspace will deliver its award-winning Global Data Platform to Japanese organizations seeking to overcome the challenges of managing distributed data across hybrid cloud environments. The company’s technology enables organizations to create a single global data platform that spans any storage or cloud location or vendor, making data instantly accessible wherever it is needed.
“Japan’s position as a global technology leader and its enterprises’ commitment to digital transformation make it a natural next step in our global expansion,” said David Flynn, Founder and CEO of Hammerspace. “Our partnership with CMS will enable us to deliver immediate value to Japanese organizations looking to modernize their data infrastructure and achieve greater agility in their operations.”
Japan’s AI market annual growth rate is expected to reach 27.71%, resulting in a market volume of US$36.52bn by 2030.
“We expect accelerated growth in large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) for advanced AI platforms in Japan through synergies created by Hammerspace’s software and our world-class storage technology that was developed over years,” said Mr. Takahashi, President and CEO of Core Micro Systems, Inc. “Core Micro Systems is committed to providing an advanced, next-generation, wide-area collaboration data platform, enabling integrated, tiered, intelligent data lake solutions in large-scale AI, HPC, and high-performance data analytics (HPDA) platforms.”
Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform provides Japanese organizations with:
- Unified global data access across any storage or cloud location
- Automated data orchestration and workflow optimization
- Enhanced data security and compliance capabilities
- Seamless integration with existing infrastructure
- Local support through established partnerships
“Hammerspace’s groundbreaking technology combined with Hammerspace Asia’s world-class enterprise delivery and local market expertise empowers organizations to unlock new efficiencies, scale AI initiatives, and drive innovation in ways that were previously unimaginable. This partnership represents a significant step forward in our investment and commitment to delivering innovative and business solutions to our customers,” said Enrique Velasco, General Manager, Hammerspace SE Asia.
Hammerspace Asia is headquartered in Singapore. The company currently has one local employee and is in the process of adding more in Japan.
For more information about Hammerspace’s solutions and availability in Japan, please visit www.hammerspace.com
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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.
