The fastest storage platform built on the open-source DAOS engine. 270+ GB/s per client on standard NVMe. Managed deployment from bare metal. Node-based licensing — after 3 years, it's yours to keep.
Three primary use cases where Enakta makes the biggest difference — and three where it's a strong fit.
Native PyTorch integration for datasets and checkpoints. Feed your GPUs at full NVMe speed without bottlenecks.
IO500 #1 on commodity NVMe. Node-based pricing, no per-TB charges. Perpetual licence after 3 years.
Your hardware, your jurisdiction. Open-source DAOS core is fully auditable. Air-gap capable, no cloud dependency.
The same engine running the world's top supercomputers, on your hardware. Parallel workloads at any scale.
High-bandwidth storage for editing, VFX, and post-production. SMB access means your tools just work.
Replace ageing NAS with storage that gets faster as it grows. SMB and NFS for everyday business use.
The Enakta Storage Platform is shipping today. AI-native storage for inference, training, and model management is in active development, built on the same RDMA-native engine. One team, one stack.
Most AI storage wasn't designed for AI. Checkpoints stall training runs. KV caches get evicted and recomputed. Model swaps take minutes instead of seconds. We're building storage that treats these as first-class problems, not afterthoughts. The foundation is shipping today. Purpose-built AI storage capabilities are next, with a full bare-metal GPU platform following in Q4 2026.
Node-based. Predictable. And after 3 years, the software is yours.
Buy once with 3 years of support included. The software is yours from day one — no kill switch, no consumption meter, no vendor holding your infrastructure hostage.
Pay yearly. After 3 years of continuous support, you earn a perpetual licence. Same result, different path — for teams who prefer opex over capex.
Most AI infrastructure is consumption-priced — stop paying, stop running. We think you should own what you buy.
Enakta Labs was founded in 2023 with a clear mission: make the highest-performance open-source storage technology usable for production workloads. We are a founding member of the DAOS Foundation alongside Argonne National Laboratory, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Intel.
Our team has been working on this storage engine since 2020. DAOS is the engine. The Enakta Platform is the product. We contribute directly to the open-source DAOS core, then build our own protocol gateways (SMB, NFS, S3), managed deployment, monitoring, and self-healing automation on top. That's the layer that makes DAOS production-ready without the research project overhead.
We keep contracts simple, roadmaps honest, and licensing transparent. If you have a support question at 3am, you talk to the engineers who built the platform.
Enakta Labs is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Our platform is built on the Apache 2.0 licensed DAOS engine — meaning the core storage layer is fully auditable by your security team. The production layers we build on top (protocol gateways, management, AI extensions) are proprietary Enakta IP, commercially supported, and included in every licence. For organisations with data residency or audit requirements, this combination means you get transparency where it matters and accountability where it counts.
Every design decision optimises for speed. Data goes straight to NVMe drives with no unnecessary layers in between.
DAOS core engine, Enakta production layer. We contribute to the open-source project and build the commercial platform on top. No hardware lock-in.
Proven from 10 nodes to 1,000+. The same engine running the world's top supercomputers.
Engineer-level support from the people who build the platform. Simple node-based licensing. No games.
Design your cluster interactively. Select drives, scale nodes, choose erasure coding, and see live performance estimates.
Up to ~320 GB/s reads per 2U, 369 TB raw, 3.2 Tbps network, and proven linear scaling to thousands of nodes.
How the Enakta Storage Platform achieved IO500 10-Node Production #3 with Core42 on TCP, and what it means for AI infrastructure.
Insights from the IT Press Tour on orchestration, offline recovery, and GPU idle time reduction at scale.
In-depth coverage of the platform v1.3, SMB/S3 integration with Tuxera, and network-speed node recovery.
DAOS holds top IO500 positions. Enakta Labs' mission to bring supercomputer-grade storage to enterprise AI.
DAOS dominates across all IO500 categories. Core42 enters at #3 in 10-Node Production running DAOS.
Enakta commercialising DAOS for neo-clouds and sovereign AI, benchmarking on a half-billion dollar GPU cluster.
Argonne, Enakta Labs, Google Cloud, HPE, and Intel come together to advance next-generation HPC and AI storage.
Whether you're editing video, training AI models, running simulations, or replacing old storage, if speed and simplicity matter, we should talk.