We believe modern data-driven organizations shouldn’t have to choose between speed, simplicity, scale, or sustainability when storing, managing, processing, and analyzing their data. In the cloud and AI era, these should be foundational elements in every data environment – not points of compromise. That’s why we’re building a software-defined, hybrid cloud-based approach to data management that supports artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing, and other next-generation workloads flawlessly. In 2013, as this next generation of performance-intensive workloads was becoming more pervasive in the enterprise, our founders set out with a blank sheet of paper, a novel programming language, and a vision to create a fundamentally different approach to managing data that would eradicate the compromises of the past and could power the future.