Production-grade NVMe storage built on the open-source DAOS engine. 270+ GB/s per client. Managed deployment from bare metal. Linear scaling to 1,000+ nodes. No proprietary appliances. No per-TB fees. After 3 years, the software is yours to keep.
DAOS is the open-source engine behind the top IO500 results globally. The Enakta Platform is what makes it production-ready: our own SMB, NFS, and S3 gateways, managed deployment, real-time monitoring, and self-healing automation. None of these exist in the open-source project. Traditional NAS was designed for spinning disks. We bypass the kernel, eliminate metadata bottlenecks, and let NVMe hardware run at full speed.
The result is storage that runs on standard NVMe servers with standard Ethernet networking, with no custom hardware and no vendor lock-in. Your applications connect over SMB, NFS, or S3, and they work without changes.
For many organisations, the real cost of storage isn't the hardware — it's the integration. When storage is one vendor, GPU provisioning is another, and orchestration is a third, every layer boundary becomes a failure point. The Enakta Platform eliminates that boundary at the storage layer, with managed deployment that takes you from bare metal to running cluster in a single workflow — and an expanding AI layer that extends the same platform into GPU provisioning and model serving.
Managed deployment, self-healing, protocol access, and linear scaling on standard hardware.
None of these exist in the open-source DAOS project. They're ours.
A dedicated HA management block handles the entire lifecycle.
When hardware fails, the cluster repairs itself automatically.
Your applications connect over standard protocols without special drivers.
Storage fast enough that your GPU cluster never idles waiting on I/O.
Add nodes, get proportionally more speed and capacity.
No vendor-specific components. Your choice of hardware, your choice of vendor.
Applications connect over SMB, NFS, S3, or native PyTorch — no modifications needed. All protocols hit the same unified DAOS storage pool.
Independently validated benchmarks in production at some of the world's largest deployments.
Our next-generation reference architecture pairs KIOXIA CD9P-R and Micron 7600 Pro NVMe drives with Intel Xeon 6 processors and ConnectX-7 400GbE networking. The result is up to ~320 GB/s reads per 2U chassis with proven linear scaling to thousands of nodes.
Full specifications, test methodology, and results are covered in our reference architecture blog post.
At SC25, DAOS-based systems swept the top 3 positions in the IO500 10-Node Production list. Our Core42 collaboration achieved the #3 position running over TCP, proving that high performance is achievable even without RDMA networking.
See the IO500 SC25 results and read about our Core42 work in this blog post.
From a compact starter cluster to a full half-rack. All commodity hardware, all standard networking.
Throughput scales with both node count and network bandwidth. The half-rack uses 400GbE per node (4× the starter's 100GbE), which accounts for the throughput jump.
Example configurations with 15.36 TB drives. Actual deployments scale from 2 to hundreds of chassis. Design yours.
Full component specs, test methodology, and benchmark results for this reference architecture.
Reference Architecture →Find your workload. If it's on this list, we built the platform for you.
High-bandwidth storage for video editing, VFX, and post-production. SMB access means your editing tools just work on Windows and macOS. Handles everything from HD dailies to 8K deliverables.
Feed your GPUs without bottlenecks. Checkpoint, dataset, and model storage fast enough that your GPU cluster never idles waiting on I/O.
The same storage engine running the world's top supercomputers, available on your hardware. Simulation output, scientific datasets, and parallel workloads at any scale.
Replace ageing NAS with shared storage that gets faster as it grows. SMB and NFS access for everyday business use, on a platform that scales linearly.
Your hardware. Your data centre. Your jurisdiction. Full data residency control for government, financial services, healthcare, and sovereign cloud deployments.
White-label and OEM storage for cloud providers and neoclouds. Simple node-based licensing, perpetual or subscription. Built for CSPs and MSPs.
The DAOS engine is open source — Apache 2.0, developed in the open, proven at exascale on the Aurora supercomputer. That's the foundation: auditable, community-driven, battle-tested. What Enakta builds on top is what makes it deployable: SMB and NFS gateways, S3 integration, managed provisioning, monitoring, automation, and engineering support. These layers are proprietary Enakta IP — commercially developed and fully supported. You get the transparency of open source where it matters most (the storage engine your data lives on) and the reliability of a commercial product where it matters most (the operations layer you depend on daily).
| Feature | Open-source DAOS | Enakta Platform |
| Storage engine | ✓ | ✓ (DAOS core) |
| POSIX / PyTorch | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMB (Windows/macOS) | — | ✓ |
| Managed NFS gateway | — | ✓ |
| S3 gateway | — | ✓ |
| Automated provisioning | — | ✓ |
| Monitoring & alerting | — | ✓ |
| Self-healing orchestration | Manual | Automatic |
| Validated hardware configs | — | ✓ |
| Configurator tool | — | ✓ |
| Engineering support | Community | Direct |
Node-based licensing with no hidden fees. You know exactly what you're paying for.
Licensed per storage node. No per-TB charges, no per-feature upsells, no surprises.
Perpetual licence included. After 3 years of support, keep running your version indefinitely. Renew support for updates, patches, and new hardware enablement.
Direct access to the engineers who build the platform. Included with every licence.
No per-TB, no per-feature, no capacity tiers. One price, full platform. You know what you're paying before you sign.
Use the configurator to design your cluster, or get in touch and we'll help you scope the right solution for your workloads.