NeuroBlade announced that its Hardware Enhanced Query
System (HEQS), the industry-first open system designed end-to-end from
analytical engine to silicon for dramatically faster performance, was selected
as the Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application at this
week's Flash Memory Summit.
"The emerging business application of hyper
compute for analytics demands linear scalability and quality of service to
handle extreme performance requirements," said Jay Kramer, Chairman of the
Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc. "We are proud to
recognize the NeuroBlade Hardware Enhanced Query System (HEQS) with memory
acceleration architecture and a specialized I/O processor. This solution is
uniquely designed to run queries at storage peak performance by processing data
near-storage and is optimized to enable line rate high-bandwidth performance on
NVMe drives, therefore reducing data movement and accelerating overall system
throughput for data-intensive tasks."
NeuroBlade received the prestigious award for
its work with CMA, a nationally recognized Healthcare and Human Services
solution provider, which is building a third-generation analytics service for
the healthcare sector using HEQS. The joint solution will enable CMA to
leapfrog RDBMS using NVMe and software-defined storage. This eliminates 30
years' worth of feature set bloat to address the query I/O bandwidth bottleneck
and accelerate data processing while reducing the data center footprint.
"We are honored that our HEQS solution has
received this industry recognition as it reinforces our commitment to providing
organizations across industry sectors with the means to deliver optimal query
performance by processing data near-storage," said Elad Sity, CEO and
co-founder of NeuroBlade.
"Thus far, Healthcare administrators, payors,
and providers trying to analyze billions of claims generated annually have been
unable to do so cost-effectively due to the complexities involved in managing
this at scale. As healthcare claims data is growing 10x, there is a growing
need for enhanced analysis to help deliver value-based care," added Ken
Romanski, President of CMA.
Existing system architectures show that the
constant shuffling of data between storage, memory, and central processing is the
primary cause of poor application performance and slow response times.
NeuroBlade recognized that current software-only approaches and architectures
couldn't scale to meet future data analytics needs, which led it to build the
computational architecture that eliminates the data movement requirements and
massively speeds up data analytics performance.
"US healthcare data volume is exploding with
billions of claims that are required to be stored and accessed for analytics by
the healthcare ecosystem," continued Kramer. "It was impressive to see the
NeuroBlade Hardware Enhanced Query System (HEQS) adding significant speed and
productivity to CMA and their leading-edge solutions for data-intensive tasks
required to be completed by healthcare administrators, payors, and providers
handling dramatically larger claim loads."
With HEQS, NeuroBlade is ushering in the era of
hyper compute for analytics to deliver solutions that bridge the analysis gap
and break down the technical boundaries that limit real-time analytics
performance.
"By overcoming this sizeable gap where not all
data can be adequately analyzed, NeuroBlade's fully optimized HEQS enables
line-rate performance on NVMe drivers at high bandwidth. The joint solution of
CMA and NeuroBlade will greatly improve value to healthcare providers that will
result in them being able to deliver more effective patient care based on
optimized data analysis," said Brian Dougherty, CTO of CMA.