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April 17, 2023

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CAMPBELL, Calif. – April 17, 2023 – WekaIO (WEKA), the data platform provider for performance-intensive workloads, announced that it has been recognized as a Customers' Choice in 2023 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer: Distributed File Systems and Object Storage report.

"WEKA is honored to be recognized as a 2023 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage based on our customers' honest reviews. We are very grateful to them for taking the time to share their feedback and experiences," said Liran Zvibel, cofounder and CEO at WEKA. "We are both proud and humbled by their overwhelmingly positive feedback, which we believe validates that WEKA is executing well against its mission to deliver an outstanding product and support experience that delights our customers."

Gartner defines Distributed File Systems and Object Storage market as software and hardware appliance products that offer object and/or scale-out distributed file system technology to address requirements for unstructured data growth. WEKA has received the Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice distinction based on feedback and ratings from verified WEKA customers that have experience working with WekaFS – the core distributed file system technology on which the WEKA® Data Platform is built.

The WEKA Data Platform is purpose-built to tame large-scale unstructured datasets and supercharge performance-intensive workloads. It transforms stagnant data silos into dynamic data pipelines and helps to solve complex data challenges, delivering 10-100x performance improvements whether running on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in hybrid and multicloud environments.

The WEKA platform was reviewed 50 times during the 18-month evaluation period, ending 31st January 2023, with 99 percent of reviewers showing a willingness to recommend it. WEKA received a five out of five-star overall customer experience rating and a five-star rating in the support experience category.

"WEKA has been transformative, allowing for the consolidation of vast numbers of files and objects across our estate onto a single, highly performant platform. The metadata performance, especially in file creation, is excellent and allows for the rapid ingest of very large numbers of smaller files where needed." – Infrastructure Services Team Leader, Government

A complimentary copy of the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer: Distributed File Systems and Object Storage report is available from WEKA (registration required): https://www.weka.io/lp/weka-named-a-2023-customers-choice-by-gartner-peer-insights/

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