MagStor Take
A single rack holding an exabyte of flash is an impressive engineering milestone — and a useful reminder of where the storage tiers actually live. High-performance active storage at that scale demands a matching archival cold tier with fundamentally different economics: LTO tape delivers cold and compliance storage at a fraction of the $/TB of flash, with a physical air gap that no network-attached appliance can replicate. For M&E and archive IT teams, the headline is not that flash is replacing tape — it is that workloads are growing fast enough that both tiers are now mandatory.
The Story
WEKA announced WEKApod 3 alongside NeuralMesh 6 software, claiming the first exabyte-class storage system fit into a single rack. The new appliance ships with NeuralMesh 6 preinstalled, which adds native multi-tenancy while retaining the option to deploy on customer-chosen hardware. WEKA positions the platform as the high-performance active tier for AI and data-intensive workloads at extreme scale.
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