ThinkParQ & Viking Partner to Deliver BeeGFS Globally

Kaisreslautern Germany, November  19^th, 2024 – ThinkParQ, the company behind BeeGFS, the high-performance parallel file system, has announced a strategic relationship with Viking Enterprise Solutions, a Samina division, and leading provider of data center and enterprise storage systems. Together, the two companies will deliver BeeGFS as a solution to customers across the globe, providing enterprise-grade storage and performance solutions that simplify deployment and accelerate time to value.

This relationship combines the proven scalability and flexibility of BeeGFS with Viking Enterprise Solutions’ cutting-edge hardware platforms, creating a powerful offering designed to meet the needs of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and enterprise data workloads.

A Solution for Fast and Scalable Storage

With this relationship, customers now have access to BeeGFS as a fully integrated solution. This solution will streamline the deployment process for organizations looking to harness the power of BeeGFS without the complexity of building and managing a parallel file system from the ground up.

Key benefits of the ThinkParQ and Viking Enterprise Solutions collaboration include:

• Pre-configured systems that integrate Viking Enterprise Solutions high-density storage hardware with BeeGFS, ensuring optimal performance right out of the box.
• Fast deployment times, reducing the time and expertise required to bring HPC and AI workloads online.
• Scalability that allows customers to grow their storage and compute capabilities as needed, supporting both small-scale and large-scale deployments.
• Enterprise-grade reliability, delivering robust solutions for critical data storage and performance needs.

Meeting the Demands of the Growing Global Data Landscape

With the global rapid growth in sectors such as HPC, AI, data analytics, and enterprise IT, driving demand for storage solutions that can efficiently manage massive datasets, ThinkParQ and Viking Enterprise Solutions address these demands by delivering a pre-tested, pre-configured appliance that provides BeeGFS’ renowned scalability and flexibility on Viking Enterprise Solutions’ industry-leading hardware.

Frank Herold, CEO of ThinkParQ, commented:
“We are excited to collaborate with Viking Enterprise Solutions to offer a turnkey BeeGFS appliance. This relationship enables customers to benefit from our high-performance parallel file system without the operational complexity, bringing simplified and scalable storage solutions to a wide range of industries.”

Rick Kumar, SVP of Viking Enterprise Solutions added, “BeeGFS has been making major inroads in the market and we are excited to be partnering with ThinkParQ to deploy this solution using our high performing systems in a very small package.  We look forward to working with the ThinkParQ team to enable our customers with the lowest total cost of ownership in the market.” 

ThinkParQ GmbH strives to create and develop the fastest, most flexible, and most stable solutions for every performance-oriented environment. Established in 2014 as a spinoff from the Fraunhofer Center for High-Performance Computing, ThinkParQ drives the research and development of BeeGFS, and works closely with system integrators to create turn-key solutions. Visit http://www.thinkparq.com for further information.

BeeGFS is one of the leading parallel cluster file systems, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management. If I/O-intensive workloads are your problem, BeeGFS is the solution. For more information, visit www.beegfs.io

Viking Enterprise Solutions, a division of Sanmina Corporation, provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage server appliances, JBOD storage systems and other products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions award winning products are tailored for integration into OEM, system integrator and data center products, reducing development and operating costs while improving time-to-market. More information is available at www.vikingenterprisesolutions.com.

Sanmina Corporation (NASDAQ: SANM) is a Fortune 500 company and a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering superior quality and support to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the industrial, medical, defense and aerospace, automotive, communications networks, and cloud infrastructure markets. Sanmina has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world. More information about the company is available at www.sanmina.com.

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Troy Patterson, VP Marketing, ThinkParQ GmbH, troy.patterson@thinkparq.com