Large scale data orchestrator Hammerspace is using Vcinity’s high-speed remote data movement technology to overcome data gravity.

VCinity’s software moves chunks of data, using remote direct memory access (RDMA) inside IP packets, and enables real-time compute on data thousands of miles away. It moves data over WAN connections at more than 90 percent of the link’s sustained bandwidth. Hammerspace pitches its global parallel filesystem as enabling data to be located and accessed inside a global namespace as if it were local.

However accessing data in large files across continental and intercontinental WAN distances still incurs latency and network transmission time penalties.