SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voltron Data, the company accelerating modular and composable data analytics systems, today introduced Theseus, a state-of-the-art distributed execution engine built to solve today’s data processing challenges at a scale beyond the capabilities of CPU-based analytics systems like Apache Spark. Theseus is available to enterprises and government agencies as well as through partners - HPE is the first partner to embed Theseus as its accelerated data processing engine as part of HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics Software.
Companies at the forefront of AI are constrained by data processing - ETL, feature engineering and transformation are key parts of AI/ML. They cannot ramp up AI capabilities efficiently because they cannot afford to build out big data CPU clusters fast enough. The performance divergence between GPUs and CPUs is only growing; this problem is getting exponentially worse.
Analysts on the industry and Voltron Data:
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Mike Leone, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said: “The end goal for organizations is to scale the use of AI. Scale data-driven decision making. Empower more stakeholders. Enable more complex analytical and predictive models. And it’s putting pressure on existing data systems. Data growth, analytical/application complexity and data movement will require organizations to rethink their data infrastructures when AI scale challenges and bottlenecks arrive. Voltron Data is solely focused on delivering a scalable data engine that unifies hardware, languages and frameworks to solve the eventual scale problem that organizations definitively will hit with existing data platforms.”
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Hyoun Park, chief analyst of Amalgam Insights, said: “In the Era of AI, enterprises face a proliferation of data sources, abstraction of coding languages and strategic needs for every employee to be more data-driven. At the same time, Spark has reached its limits as an analytic processing system for the generation of Big Data. As the average enterprise now accesses over a thousand data sources, businesses must invest their data processing capabilities to support the next order of magnitude for analytics and AI demands. Voltron Data has taken an important step forward with this maiden voyage of Theseus to solve all of these data issues for the Era of AI.”
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Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics and data management at Omdia, said: "Without a doubt, organizations capable of accessing, analyzing and acting on data in near-real time hold a distinct competitive edge over their rivals. It's no wonder then that the majority of companies rank the ability to access high quality, secure and well-governed data assets as their number one investment driver, according to a detailed study of 320 analytics and data management professionals. Unfortunately, a constant influx of new technologies, data types and data sources together conspire to hold data processing back, turning what should be a crucial, timely asset into a costly performance bottleneck. What’s needed is a key to unlock this data at scale through an analytics acceleration engine that brings the benefits of hardware acceleration to data processing. That’s where vendors like Voltron Data come into play."