VDURA Named “AI Data Management Solution of the Year” in 2026 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Awards Program
Ninth Annual Program Honors the AI Innovators Shaping the Next Era of Global Innovation
VDURA today announced that the V12 Data Platform has been selected as winner of the “AI Data Management Solution of the Year” award in the 9th annual AI Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AI Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market today.
The VDURA Data Platform V12 offers data storage infrastructure software to manage data across every stage of the AI pipeline: ingest, model load, training, checkpointing, fine-tuning, inference, and archive. Built on the HYDRA architecture, V12 combines the speed of a true parallel file system with object storage.
NVMe flash handles performance-critical workloads while high-capacity HDDs serve cost-efficient data retention, all managed automatically through Dynamic Data Acceleration and the new Context-Aware Tiering engine. In addition, the Elastic Metadata Engine dynamically scales across nodes, delivering up to 20x improvement in metadata operations and handling billions of files and objects under active use. Native Snapshot Support creates instantaneous, space-efficient point-in-time copies for AI checkpoint protection, model versioning, and operational recovery. RDMA support enables GPU-direct data transfers that bypass the CPU entirely. SMR HDD Optimization unlocks 25-30% more usable capacity per rack without compromising throughput.
