How Ocient is Revolutionizing Data Warehousing for AI
Ocient is disrupting the data warehousing space by offering a unified data platform that optimizes for always-on, compute-intensive data and AI workloads. This hyperscale enterprise data warehouse platform enables swift transformation and analysis of petabyte-scale data at speeds 10- to 50 times faster than competitor solutions - at a disruptively better price.
I recently had the pleasure of learning more about Ocient from Vice President of Marketing Jenna Boller Chorn during the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit. Jenna joined Jeniece Wnorowski of Solidigm and me to discuss Ocient’s pioneering data warehousing technology and its impact on the industry.
Ocient’s platform consolidates various capabilities into a single system, eliminating the need for data movement between disparate platforms.
“By bringing more capabilities directly to their data in one platform, our customers typically realize a 50 to 90% savings in cost, system footprint, and energy consumption,” Jenna said.
Ocient’s unique architecture centers on a concept known as Compute Adjacent Storage Architecture (CASA), which tightly integrates compute and storage layers. Ocient’s technology leverages Solidigm’s NVMe SSDs instead of traditional hard drives, providing the speed and performance essential for real-time data management and analysis.
Jenna emphasized Ocient’s commitment to innovation at the software level for higher performance and lower operational costs.
“We’re really focused on maximizing that efficiency benefit, having a really tight data layer at the foundation,” Jenna said.
As companies prepare for increasingly data-driven and AI-intensive workloads, Ocient’s technology is built to help manage costs and performance at scale. Jenna noted that traditional data warehousing models have often focused on elasticity and convenience, allowing users to spin up new environments quickly. This approach can lead to unpredictable costs.
“We’re starting to see with customers that operate on a very always-on basis, the cost quickly gets out of control and actually becomes very unpredictable for them,” Jenna observed. “It’s not uncommon for me to talk to customers who are aggressively deleting data and introducing constraints on their environment to manage costs.”
Ocient’s technology allows companies to control these expenses by streamlining data processing, preparation, and exploration stages directly on the platform.
“As customers need to do more, particularly in the age of AI, they’re going to need to be more efficient at that core foundational layer,” Jenna noted.
Ocient’s approach reduces the need to transfer data between systems, which minimizes security risks and operational overhead.
The company also supports AI initiatives by incorporating in-database machine learning capabilities, allowing clients to train and deploy models directly within Ocient’s platform.
“We launched Ocient ML last year, bringing ML directly to the data in Ocient,” Jenna said. This functionality enables clients to explore, prepare, and process data with fewer resources and less time, making the pipeline for predictive AI and general AI more streamlined and cost-effective.
Customer satisfaction is a high priority for Ocient, especially as clients tackle high-compute tasks requiring seamless integration with existing systems. Jenna described the role of Ocient’s Customer Solutions and Workload Services Team, which helps clients manage data pipelines and identify ways to optimize processing and pre-processing tasks. This hands-on support ensures that Ocient’s clients can realize the platform's benefits from day one, which has led to a high retention rate among their users.
“By the time they go with Ocient, they've already seen everything working, and they're realizing value from day one,” Jenna highlighted. “That drives incredible stickiness with our customers.”
Ocient’s SSD-exclusive architecture means that clients can avoid energy-intensive hard disk drives while still achieving the performance levels they require.
“From our first day, we’ve always optimized for performance at scale and for efficiency,” Jenna said. By showing clients the comparative footprint of legacy systems versus Ocient’s solution, Ocient often reveals a 50 to 90 percent reduction in operational costs and energy consumption.
Jenna also expressed hope for more transparency around the energy consumption of software applications, particularly as AI applications increase in popularity.
So what’s the TechArena take? Hyperscale data environments are projected to account for over 50% of global data center capacity by 2026, so, in short, Ocient is in the catbird seat. Their technology is well-positioned to serve organizations requiring high-efficiency, large-scale data solutions.
With continued innovations, strategic partnerships, and a firm commitment to efficiency and sustainability, Ocient is leading a transformative shift in how organizations manage and leverage their data. And their commitment to sustainable practices help set it apart in a rapidly changing industry.
Interested in learning more? Listen to the full podcast and visit Ocient.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.
Ocient is disrupting the data warehousing space by offering a unified data platform that optimizes for always-on, compute-intensive data and AI workloads. This hyperscale enterprise data warehouse platform enables swift transformation and analysis of petabyte-scale data at speeds 10- to 50 times faster than competitor solutions - at a disruptively better price.
I recently had the pleasure of learning more about Ocient from Vice President of Marketing Jenna Boller Chorn during the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit. Jenna joined Jeniece Wnorowski of Solidigm and me to discuss Ocient’s pioneering data warehousing technology and its impact on the industry.
Ocient’s platform consolidates various capabilities into a single system, eliminating the need for data movement between disparate platforms.
“By bringing more capabilities directly to their data in one platform, our customers typically realize a 50 to 90% savings in cost, system footprint, and energy consumption,” Jenna said.
Ocient’s unique architecture centers on a concept known as Compute Adjacent Storage Architecture (CASA), which tightly integrates compute and storage layers. Ocient’s technology leverages Solidigm’s NVMe SSDs instead of traditional hard drives, providing the speed and performance essential for real-time data management and analysis.
Jenna emphasized Ocient’s commitment to innovation at the software level for higher performance and lower operational costs.
“We’re really focused on maximizing that efficiency benefit, having a really tight data layer at the foundation,” Jenna said.
As companies prepare for increasingly data-driven and AI-intensive workloads, Ocient’s technology is built to help manage costs and performance at scale. Jenna noted that traditional data warehousing models have often focused on elasticity and convenience, allowing users to spin up new environments quickly. This approach can lead to unpredictable costs.
“We’re starting to see with customers that operate on a very always-on basis, the cost quickly gets out of control and actually becomes very unpredictable for them,” Jenna observed. “It’s not uncommon for me to talk to customers who are aggressively deleting data and introducing constraints on their environment to manage costs.”
Ocient’s technology allows companies to control these expenses by streamlining data processing, preparation, and exploration stages directly on the platform.
“As customers need to do more, particularly in the age of AI, they’re going to need to be more efficient at that core foundational layer,” Jenna noted.
Ocient’s approach reduces the need to transfer data between systems, which minimizes security risks and operational overhead.
The company also supports AI initiatives by incorporating in-database machine learning capabilities, allowing clients to train and deploy models directly within Ocient’s platform.
“We launched Ocient ML last year, bringing ML directly to the data in Ocient,” Jenna said. This functionality enables clients to explore, prepare, and process data with fewer resources and less time, making the pipeline for predictive AI and general AI more streamlined and cost-effective.
Customer satisfaction is a high priority for Ocient, especially as clients tackle high-compute tasks requiring seamless integration with existing systems. Jenna described the role of Ocient’s Customer Solutions and Workload Services Team, which helps clients manage data pipelines and identify ways to optimize processing and pre-processing tasks. This hands-on support ensures that Ocient’s clients can realize the platform's benefits from day one, which has led to a high retention rate among their users.
“By the time they go with Ocient, they've already seen everything working, and they're realizing value from day one,” Jenna highlighted. “That drives incredible stickiness with our customers.”
Ocient’s SSD-exclusive architecture means that clients can avoid energy-intensive hard disk drives while still achieving the performance levels they require.
“From our first day, we’ve always optimized for performance at scale and for efficiency,” Jenna said. By showing clients the comparative footprint of legacy systems versus Ocient’s solution, Ocient often reveals a 50 to 90 percent reduction in operational costs and energy consumption.
Jenna also expressed hope for more transparency around the energy consumption of software applications, particularly as AI applications increase in popularity.
So what’s the TechArena take? Hyperscale data environments are projected to account for over 50% of global data center capacity by 2026, so, in short, Ocient is in the catbird seat. Their technology is well-positioned to serve organizations requiring high-efficiency, large-scale data solutions.
With continued innovations, strategic partnerships, and a firm commitment to efficiency and sustainability, Ocient is leading a transformative shift in how organizations manage and leverage their data. And their commitment to sustainable practices help set it apart in a rapidly changing industry.
Interested in learning more? Listen to the full podcast and visit Ocient.com or connect with them on LinkedIn.
