Rafay Systems Helps Shape Guardant Health–Led Consortium Defining Open Standard for AI-Ready Data Access
Rafay and 30+ contributors help set new standardization for Single Namespace Working Group
Sunnyvale, CA, November 12, 2025 – 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.
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.
“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.
About the Single Namespace (SNS) Working Group
The SNS Working Group is a 34-member cross-industry consortium of technology companies, research institutions and healthcare leaders led by Guardant Health. The group is defining the first open standard for data interoperability at exabyte scale and transitioning its work to OASIS for global standardization.
About Rafay Systems
Founded in 2017, Rafay Systems delivers infrastructure orchestration and workflow automation that helps enterprises, cloud service providers, and sovereign AI clouds scale Kubernetes and AI workloads. The company’s flagship product, The Rafay Platform delivers a GPU PaaS™ experience for end-users that effectively transforms complex cloud compute environments into governed, self-service systems that accelerate innovation and simplify operations. The Rafay Platform also helps companies improve governance capabilities, optimize costs of CPU & GPU resources, and accelerate the delivery of cloud-native and AI-powered applications. Customers such as MoneyGram and Guardant Health entrust Rafay to be the cornerstone of their modern infrastructure strategy and AI architecture. Gartner has recognized Rafay as a Cool Vendor in Container Management. GigaOm named Rafay as a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm 2025 Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes. To learn more visit www.rafay.co.