Attimis and Rivet Industries - Accelerate AI Initiatives
Rivet Industries Background:
Rivet.us (officially Rivet Industries, Inc.) is a U.S.-based industrial technology company dedicated to designing and delivering advanced mobile systems for frontline professionals—particularly in defense, security, and industrial sectors.
Rivet specializes in crafting "Integrated Task Systems" that are both rugged and intelligent, combining cutting-edge hardware, software, sensors, communications technologies, and AI—all built to withstand real-world, high-pressure environments. Their proprietary "Rivet Hard Spec™" standard ensures these solutions are resilient and reliable in the most demanding conditions, enabling seamless, secure, and highly effective operations for teams in the field.
The Challenge: The AI Data Bottleneck
Rivet Industries’ competitive edge lies in integrating cutting-edge AI into its ruggedized field systems. However, their AI development process was hampered by a critical bottleneck: data access. With a distributed engineering team, data stored across multiple clouds (including AWS S3), and compute happening in a dedicated NEO Cloud, the simple act of getting the right data to the right place at the right time was slow, unreliable, and expensive.
This AI data bottleneck created a cascade of problems that directly threatened their business objectives:
- Slowed Innovation: Engineers wasted significant time waiting for large datasets to load for model training, slowing down the entire iteration cycle and delaying time-to-market for new AI capabilities.
- Wasted GPU Resources: Expensive GPU clusters, the engine of AI development, sat idle ~30% of the time, waiting for data to be delivered.
- Increased Costs: Excessive Cloud data egress fees that continued to escalate with data growth and utilization.
- Compliance & Security Risks: Managing data across multiple locations created complexity in ensuring the robust security and resilience demanded by their government and industrial contracts.
The Solution: Strategic AI Data Orchestration by Attimis
Rivet deployed Attimis CORE smart data layer to create an intelligent data fabric that automates and optimizes the flow of data between their data storage providers, developers, and GPU resources.
Outcomes:
- Accelerated time to market by eliminating data management delays
- Engineering productivity increased and happier developers. Builds load from local cache and store instantly while consistently synchronized with remote data repositories
- GPU efficiency increased by 30% by prepositioning data to the GPU provider, never waiting for remote data to load.
- Cloud storage optimized and cost reduction. Eliminate cloud egress costs using distributed data sources and caching locally. AWS egress costs reduced to ~ zero.
- Compliance and regulatory requirements for data resilience and security using Attimis smart data layer for archive and encryption.
- 30%more GPU utilization
- ~$0AWS egress spend
- Fastertime to market
- Zerocompliance compromise
Conclusion: From Tactical Tool to a Strategic AI Platform
For Rivet Industries, Attimis is the foundational layer for modern, secure, and efficient AI development. By strategically orchestrating AI data, Attimis moved beyond solving isolated problems and provided a holistic solution that directly impacts the company’s agility, profitability, and market position. It empowers Rivet’s engineers to build the future of industrial technology without being constrained by data, turning their AI initiatives into a powerful and cost-effective engine for growth.
Customer Perspective
Attimis has fundamentally changed how our teams access, manage, and protect data. What used to slow us down is now seamless. Our engineers are more productive, our GPU investments are fully utilized, and our customers know their data is secure. Attimis is helping us accelerate AI innovation while staying compliant and cost-efficient.