TLDR: Hammerspace has been honored with the “Data Platform Tech — AI-Optimized Data Platforms” award at the SiliconANGLE 2025 TechForward Awards. The company’s data platform is lauded for its ability to unify distributed datasets and automate data orchestration across diverse storage environments, enabling high-performance AI and HPC workloads by making all data instantly accessible.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – August 26, 2025 – Hammerspace, a leading provider of standards-based data platforms designed to simplify AI infrastructure, today announced its victory in the “Data Platform Tech — AI-Optimized Data Platforms” category at the prestigious SiliconANGLE 2025 TechForward Awards. This recognition highlights Hammerspace’s innovative approach to managing and orchestrating data at the scale and performance levels demanded by modern artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
The SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards are renowned for identifying and celebrating technologies and solutions that are pivotal in driving business innovation. A panel of industry experts and technology leaders rigorously evaluated nominees, ultimately selecting Hammerspace for its groundbreaking contributions to data platform evolution, particularly in the realm of AI innovation.
Hammerspace’s award-winning Data Platform distinguishes itself through an open, data-centric architecture specifically engineered for high-performance AI and HPC. It effectively unifies global access to all data, regardless of its location—be it across existing storage, disparate silos, various sites, or multiple cloud environments. This capability transforms all data into an instantly accessible resource for AI models, applications, compute clusters, and users, eliminating the need for complex data migrations or the acquisition of new, proprietary storage solutions.
Floyd Christofferson, Vice President of Product Marketing at Hammerspace, emphasized the platform’s transformative impact, stating, “Hammerspace is transforming the way organizations can harness AI to unlock new value from their unstructured data.” The platform simplifies the AI journey for enterprises by seamlessly extending into cloud-based compute environments without disrupting existing users or applications. Furthermore, it activates underutilized capacity within customers’ GPU servers, accelerating inferencing and checkpointing processes, and thereby reducing the necessity for additional external high-performance storage.
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This accolade underscores Hammerspace’s commitment to providing a unified, high-speed data backbone for AI, integrating with existing storage, networking, and applications to accelerate every stage of the AI pipeline while effectively dismantling data silos.
