Rafay and 30+ contributors help set new standardization for Single Namespace Working Group
Rafay Systems, the leading platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider for Kubernetes and GPU-based infrastructure orchestration, announced its contribution to setting new industry standardization in collaboration with the Single Namespace (SNS) Working Group, a 34-member, cross-industry consortium led by Guardant Health.
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The SNS specification, now advancing to OASIS for formal standardization, unifies enterprise and research data across heterogeneous storage systems into a single, POSIX-compatible namespace – enabling AI and ML workloads to run anywhere without the friction of data movement or vendor lock-in. Since the group’s inception 18 months ago, Rafay has collaborated alongside core technology leaders to define an open, vendor-neutral standard for exabyte-scale data interoperability.
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“The SNS initiative is solving the industry’s ‘Dropbox-at-exabyte-scale’ problem for AI,” said Mohan Atreya, Chief Product Officer at Rafay Systems. “Life-sciences organizations such as Guardant Health run massive Kubernetes estates with data distributed across multiple storage systems. Rafay sits between the user and the infrastructure, ensuring that AI workloads can seamlessly consume and process data wherever it lives, securely, efficiently, and without proprietary barriers.”
The need for SNS is particularly acute in life sciences, where up to 90% of data must remain “hot” for research and diagnostics. For Guardant Health, that means allowing for genomic studies using an accumulated 15 years of data across all global facilities, on premise or in cloud. SNS enables a unified data view across those silos, while Rafay ensures workloads can operate on that data from Kubernetes environments with enterprise-grade automation, security, and cost governance.
Through its participation, Rafay is aligning its platform so SNS-compliant data services can be consumed directly from governed, self-service Kubernetes and GPU environments – giving researchers and data scientists instant, compliant access to distributed data. This collaboration reinforces Rafay’s mission to turn infrastructure into a launchpad for innovation through automation, policy, and orchestration excellence.
The SNS Working Group’s formal announcement will be followed by community discussions at Supercomputing 2025 (SC25) in St. Louis, Nov. 17-21, where Rafay and other consortium members will highlight how open standards and orchestration are transforming AI-ready infrastructure.
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Source- businesswire
