Tier 0 architecture turns Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Bare Metal NVMe into the fastest, most efficient storage tier for AI

Oracle AI World – Hammerspace today announced that it will demonstrate the power and performance of its Tier 0 architecture at Oracle AI World 2025, October 13–16 in Las Vegas. With Tier 0, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster – a bare metal GPU server cluster – operates with ultra-high-performance shared storage, helping to reduce bottlenecks and minimize GPU idle time.

By transforming existing local NVMe storage in OCI GPU shapes into a persistent, ultra-fast shared storage tier, Hammerspace eliminates data silos and unifies storage, unlocking a new level of efficiency and performance for AI workloads. Hammerspace will demonstrate its Tier 0 architecture, which enables AI training, checkpointing, inference and agentic AI workloads to run with higher throughput, lower latency and better GPU utilization, while providing access to all this data in a single namespace.

Performance That Redefines the Rules

Recent benchmark testing on OCI proves the power of the Tier 0 architecture, which includes:

• Up to 7x improvement in latency vs. traditional cloud file storage.
• Up to 6x improvement in storage performance vs. traditional cloud file storage.
• Checkpointing at extreme speeds, crushing idle time.
• Throughput so fast it keeps GPUs fed 24/7, not waiting on data.
• Policy-driven flexibility to move cold data to lower-cost tiers without touching the hot path.

OCI and Hammerspace Provide AI-Ready Solutions

“Our customers are excited about Hammerspace's partnership with OCI,” said Tony Asaro, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer for Hammerspace. “With Hammerspace, they get the highest levels of performance at scale, a global namespace for multisite access, data orchestration and data assimilation on OCI, a major public cloud that has been architected and optimized for AI workloads. The combination provides a complete AI-ready solution, whether for small projects and/or massive environments."

In addition, Hammerspace will demonstrate the power of Tier 0 at the event:

Topic: Increase Performance and Reduce Idle Time of Your GPU Workloads in OCI

Presenter: Raj Sharma, Cloud Field CTO, Hammerspace

Location: NVIDIA Booth #1013

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 14, 5:30–6:00 p.m.

Learn More:

• Book a Meeting with Hammerspace at Oracle AI World
• Read the Joint OCI / Hammerspace Blog: FIO Benchmarks Highlight Performance Gains with Hammerspace Tier 0 Architecture on OCI
• Visit Hammerspace at Oracle AI World in booth #8008

About Hammerspace

Hammerspace is the high-performance data platform built to simplify AI infrastructure at scale. It makes all your data immediately accessible, anywhere — across on-prem and cloud environments — without copying or migrating data. Hammerspace integrates with your existing storage, networking, and applications to create a unified, high-speed data backbone for AI, accelerating every stage of the AI pipeline while eliminating data silos. Learn more at https://hammerspace.com/.

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“With Hammerspace, customers get the highest levels of performance at scale, a global namespace for multisite access, data orchestration and data assimilation on OCI, a major public cloud that has been architected and optimized for AI workloads."