Analyst(s): Brad Shimmin
Publication Date: June 26, 2025
Hammerspace has launched its Tier 0 data platform on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, enabling high-throughput, low-latency access to data for AI and HPC workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The integration delivers faster performance and supports Oracle’s growing ecosystem of AI-optimized services.
What is Covered in this Article:
- Hammerspace Tier 0 solution is now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
- The offering enables ultra-fast data delivery to OCI GPU VMs with no replication.
- Benchmark tests on OCI show 2.5x read, 2x write, and 51% lower latency improvements.
- The platform supports both AI and HPC workloads with distributed data access.
- Oracle reinforces its performance and infrastructure value proposition with this integration.
The News: Hammerspace announced that its Tier 0 high-performance data platform is now live on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Users can now set it up on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to handle AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud setups.
With Tier 0, companies can move data straight from on-prem sources to GPUs in OCI at high speed, skipping the need for replication. Internal OCI tests showed that compared to external networked storage access, the Tier 0 platform gave 2.5x faster read speeds, 2x better write throughput, and 51% lower latency using OCI’s native bare metal and local NVMe storage.
Oracle Adds Hammerspace to Strengthen AI Storage on OCI
Analyst Take: Bringing Hammerspace’s Tier 0 platform to the Oracle Cloud Marketplace gives Oracle users a solid, high-performance data option. More and more businesses need tools that simplify and accelerate AI data pipelines, especially in GPU-heavy environments. This move helps Oracle stand out as a strong pick for AI and HPC workloads that demand low latency with additional complexity.
Enhancing GPU Utilization for AI and HPC
The Hammerspace Tier 0 setup helps reduce idle GPUs by pushing high-speed data to thousands of GPUs at once. It avoids data replication and makes low-latency reads and writes possible across disparate setups. This direct-to-VM design fits all kinds of compute-heavy work, like training and inference, making OCI a solid option for companies that want to scale up AI fast.
Performance Benchmarks Back the Integration
Recent OCI tests showed Tier 0 significantly outperformed traditional external storage with 2.5x faster reads, 2x faster writes, and 51% lower latency. These results came using regular OCI bare metal GPU shapes, with no special hardware or custom code. It proves the platform works well with Oracle’s infrastructure and does not add extra complexity. With this kind of performance, Oracle has another way to stand out when it comes to speed and efficiency.
Strategic Alignment with Oracle Cloud Marketplace Goals
Adding Hammerspace Tier 0 to the Marketplace makes it easier for customers to find high-performance tools that match AI and HPC needs. The Marketplace acts as a hub that helps companies adopt partner tech more easily. This move supports Oracle’s message of strong performance, solid security, and competitive pricing in the cloud. It also shows Oracle is serious about offering smart data platforms that boost its infrastructure edge.
Focused Delivery of Distributed Data Capabilities
Hammerspace gives enterprises a global namespace that works across both on-premises and cloud setups, so they can use data without migrating it beforehand. In essence, Tier 0 turns local NVMe into persistent shared storage within OCI GPU virtual machines (VMs), creating a strong, high-speed data foundation. The setup supports hybrid and global workloads that need fast, real-time data, making it easier for Oracle to meet data requirements for privacy, location, and sovereignty.
What to Watch:
- Enterprises must evaluate how Hammerspace’s offering fits into their existing data architectures and whether it simplifies or adds complexity to their hybrid deployments.
- How Hammerspace’s performance claims hold up in production scenarios involving geographically distributed, high-volume data flows.
- Adoption trends of Hammerspace on OCI will serve as an indicator of enterprise comfort with using Oracle for AI/HPC infrastructure rather than AWS or Azure.
- Whether Hammerspace’s data plane approach drives measurable improvements in GPU utilization across real-world OCI AI workloads.
See the official announcement of Hammerspace Tier 0 on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace on the Hammerspace website.
Disclosure: Futurum is a research and advisory firm that engages or has engaged in research, analysis, and advisory services with many technology companies, including those mentioned in this article. The author does not hold any equity positions with any company mentioned in this article.
Analysis and opinions expressed herein are specific to the analyst individually and data and other information that might have been provided for validation, not those of Futurum as a whole.
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Author Information
Brad Shimmin is Vice President and Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure at Futurum. He provides strategic direction and market analysis to help organizations maximize their investments in data and analytics. Currently, Brad is focused on helping companies establish an AI-first data strategy.
With over 30 years of experience in enterprise IT and emerging technologies, Brad is a distinguished thought leader specializing in data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software development. Consulting with Fortune 100 vendors, Brad specializes in industry thought leadership, worldwide market analysis, client development, and strategic advisory services.
Brad earned his Bachelor of Arts from Utah State University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Brad lives in Longmeadow, MA, with his beautiful wife and far too many LEGO sets.
