The WEKA Data Platform (WEKA) is a high performance, software-defined, parallel file system that delivers unsurpassed performance density (throughput, IOPS and metadata) to unleash data for your HPC & AI use-cases. WEKA delivers more performance per TB, scales to multiple exabytes in a single namespace, requires zero performance tuning and is deployable on-prem, public cloud or hybrid. In this talk Derek Burke, Data Storage Specialist at WEKA, provides an introduction to WEKA, how the WEKA Data Platform works and how it's deployed in a production environment.