Hammerspace CEO On Its New AI Data Platform For Nvidia AI Environments
Hammerspace is looking to grow its presence with channel partners and customers that need to prepare data for use with AI inference applications. The company, whose name comes from the ability of cartoon characters to pull a hammer or anything else out of thin air, is very much focused on making data available from anywhere as it’s needed for AI, said co-founder and CEO David Flynn.
Flynn, in an exclusive interview with CRN, discussed Hammerspace’s expanded relationship with Nvidia, including Monday’s news about the Hammerspace AI Data Platform based on Nvidia’s new AI Data Platform reference architecture.
“Hammerspace is able to unify data across all the disparate systems within an environment and bring it into a single logical name place, allowing the data to be moved to different data centers and presented uniformly,” he said. “That data can then be processed through a vector database, preconditioned, and available to be used at an AI level with inference.”
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The news about the Hammerspace AI Data Platform caps a busy few weeks for the Redwood City, Calif.-based company. Hammerspace recently said that SK Squared, a Korean investment firm related to memory and SSD powerhouse SK Hynix, made a strategic investment in the company
Hammerspace also unveiled a new partnership with Secuvy that Flynn said dovetails nicely with the Hammerspace AI Data Platform news.
“Secuvy looks for data that needs to be governed like financial data, things like that, within the PDF content,” he said. “We’re tightly integrated with them so that we can be sure once you put our AI Data Platform into place, you can use the correct data with the correct models in the correct places and manage your enterprise data security and AI security properly.”
Here is more of CRN’s conversation with Flynn.
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Joseph F. Kovar is a senior editor and reporter for the storage and the non-tech-focused channel beats for CRN. He keeps readers abreast of the latest issues related to such areas as data life-cycle, business continuity and disaster recovery, and data centers, along with related services and software, while highlighting some of the key trends that impact the IT channel overall. He can be reached at
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