Vexata and Destiny Corporation Collaborate to Scale SAS Analytics with Accelerated NVMe Storage

Joint partnership agreement opens up new opportunities to address I/O challenges to accelerate SAS analytic pipelines to drive faster ingest and quicker outcomes

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Aug 22, 2018, 09:00 ET

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Vexata, the leader in high-performance NVMe Flash storage systems, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Destiny Corporation, a SAS Gold Partner and reseller with over 30 years of experience supporting Fortune 500 and government clients in analytics infrastructure, migrations, data hub creation and data warehousing design.

This agreement builds upon the market success that Vexata has established in high-performance analytics and data management solutions for enterprise and cloud data centers. The Vexata VX-100 Scalable NVMe Array, a SAS Certified Solution, holds the highest performance benchmarks across a number of use cases, including serving up a record breaking 320 simultaneous SAS sessions. Vexata also supports a number of deployment options for file and block SAS Grid environments delivering high performance analytics solutions that form the basis of digital commerce in the enterprise.

Ninety-four percent of the Fortune Global 100 use SAS analytics to power their businesses. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. AI and machine learning (ML) workloads are increasing in volume and complexity as organizations look to enable predictive and cognitive analytics for financial services, risk management, healthcare and IoT use cases. To enable predictive and cognitive analytics for these heavy mixed-random and sequential-read/write workloads, the underlying infrastructure needs to accelerate pipelines by delivering ultra-low latency with massive ingest bandwidths.

Vexata and Destiny are hosting a webinar titled "Accelerating SAS analytics with Vexata NVMe Storage," on August 23^, 2018 at 10 a.m. PDT, providing SAS architects and line-of-business professionals with best practices to address IoT, machine learning and deep learning for financial services healthcare and life sciences customers. To join this event, go to: Accelerating SAS Analytics Webinar.

"We are excited to collaborate with Destiny Corporation in helping solve SAS scalability and I/O bottleneck issues faced by line-of-business users including chief data officer, chief analytics officer, data scientists as well as IT leaders," said Zahid Hussain, Vexata founder and CEO. "Together with Destiny Corporation, we are effectively able to understand business and technical challenges and help organizations realize significant gains in productivity while lowering capital and operational expenses."

Dana Rafiee, managing director for Destiny Corporation, added, "We are excited about this collaboration with Vexata. Its scalable data storage systems provide a simple plug-and-play solution to address complex SAS scalability and IO challenges without any changes to logic needed. Moreover, Vexata's understanding of the SAS solution stack and ecosystem makes them easy to work with."

About Vexata
Vexata powers today's cognitive era applications driving predictive analytics and autonomous decisions. Based on a patented active data architecture, Vexata delivers 10x performance and efficiency improvements at a fraction of the cost of existing all-flash storage solutions. The result is transformative performance with breakthrough economics enabling machine learning and artificial intelligence infrastructure to operate at scale. For more information, please visit Vexata.com or follow us @VexataCorp.

About Destiny Corporation
Destiny Corporation is a Business and Technology Consulting Firm that engages in Business Process Reengineering, Analytics and Statistics, Data and Infrastructure initiatives. We have a dedicated staff that works closely with our clients. We learn our client's business and information technology requirements. We analyze the existing infrastructure and the overall goals of the organization. At that point, we design and develop the most appropriate business process and IT solutions, using industry best practices to meet those needs. For many of our clients, we perform business process analysis, analytics, infrastructure design, implementation, migrations, and offer ongoing support.

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