Hammerspace has been named the winner of SiliconANGLE's 2025 TechForward Awards in the Data Platform Tech — AI-Optimized Data Platforms category. This recognition highlights the company's innovative approach to simplifying AI infrastructure, enabling organizations to leverage existing storage for high-performance AI and HPC workloads without costly migrations.
Hammerspace wins 2025 TechForward Award for AI-Optimized Data Platforms.
Platform unifies data access across on-prem, cloud, and storage silos.
Tier 0 leverages GPU server capacity for faster AI inferencing.
Eliminates need for proprietary storage, reducing costs for enterprises.
Supports seamless cloud integration without disrupting existing workflows.
Recognized for driving innovation in enterprise AI data management.
The Hammerspace Data Platform is distinguished by its open, data-centric architecture, designed specifically for high-performance AI and HPC workloads. By unifying global access to data across existing storage, silos, sites, and clouds, it ensures that all data is instantly accessible to AI models, applications, compute clusters, and users. This approach eliminates the need for organizations to invest in new, proprietary storage systems, allowing them to maximize their existing infrastructure for AI-driven initiatives.
Hammerspace's innovative Tier 0 feature activates underutilized capacity in GPU servers, significantly accelerating AI inferencing and checkpointing. This eliminates the need for additional high-performance external storage, reducing costs while boosting efficiency. "One of the biggest challenges organizations face is putting distributed unstructured data to work in their AI strategies. To succeed, data must be accessible at high-performance for inferencing and agentic AI without requiring customers to migrate their data to yet another proprietary silo," said Floyd Christofferson, Vice President of Product Marketing. "Hammerspace has proven its standards-based approach for high-performance use cases, integrating existing storage and network infrastructure with seamless extension to the cloud."
The platform's ability to extend into cloud-based compute environments without disrupting existing users or applications sets it apart. Hammerspace enables organizations to integrate AI-focused resources seamlessly with their current IT infrastructure, avoiding the need for massive data migrations. This flexibility ensures that enterprises can scale their AI initiatives efficiently while maintaining operational continuity, making Hammerspace a critical tool for businesses navigating the complexities of modern AI deployments.
The TechForward Awards, hosted by SiliconANGLE, celebrate technologies that redefine enterprise operations. Hammerspace was selected from a competitive field by a panel of industry experts. "The TechForward Awards winners represent the best in enterprise tech innovation," said Dave Vellante, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media. "These solutions don't just advance their categories; they define what's possible when breakthrough engineering meets real-world business challenges. Every winner has proven they can deliver game-changing results." This accolade underscores Hammerspace's role in transforming how organizations harness AI to unlock value from unstructured data.
Hammerspace's award-winning platform empowers enterprises to streamline AI infrastructure, reduce costs, and drive innovation, positioning it as a leader in the AI-optimized data platform space.
Hammerspace is a high-performance data platform built to simplify AI infrastructure at scale. It makes all your data immediately accessible, anywhere — across on-prem and cloud environments — without copying or migrating data. Hammerspace integrates with your existing storage, networking, and applications to create a unified, high-speed data backbone for AI, accelerating every stage of the AI pipeline while eliminating data silos.
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