The Data Platform for the AI Era
The VAST Data Platform is the foundation trusted by world-leading AI research teams to deliver the scale, speed, and reliability needed to train neural networks and infer in real time. VAST enables greater statistical accuracy by removing the barriers to training on all of an organization’s data at any scale.
Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage the VAST Data Platform is a next-generation distributed data store, unifying file, object, and database services into one scalable, affordable all-flash system that simplifies data pipelines.
New machine learning workloads such as training generative AI models exceed the performance and scale capabilities of traditional enterprise infrastructures.
HPC systems based on parallel file systems provide adequate performance but complexity and the lack of enterprise features make them difficult for many IT teams to support.
Simplifying Data Storage for AI Training
Typically, customers deploy a combination of HPC storage for highperformance ephemeral scratch space and lower-cost NAS for long-term data retention. The result is complicated and tedious data pipelines where data
must be copied from tier to tier before AI training can even begin.
Enter the VAST Data Platform, a simple enterprise NAS with the performance and scalability for the most demanding AI applications combined with revolutionary data efficiency technologies that reduce the cost of flash to archive tier economics.
When all data is available for high-performance training, machine learning workflows are simple and time to insight is reduced.
Please visit our Vast Data Platform page to view VAST Data’s introduction to the
VAST Data Platform as well as videos that explain in detail the VAST
DataStore, DataBase, DataEngine and DataSpace.
PDF - All-Flash File & Object Storage for the AI Era
When it’s possible to consolidate NAS and Object workloads to a single data platform with all-flash performance, cloud scalability, and archive-level economics, the barriers to insight disappear.
Legacy data storage platforms force customers to choose between performance or scale and to accept fractured data pipelines.
VAST Data addresses the decades old limitations of scale and state, providing fast access to all data, over any protocol. With one simple tier of all-flash, silos are eliminated, workflows are simplified, and insights are unleashed.
PDF – VAST Data Platform for Artificial Intelligence
The VAST Data Platform is a unified, intelligent architecture that delivers all-flash performance and enterprise simplicity for storing, inferring, and analyzing unstructured and structured data services.
VAST has the performance and scale to power next-generation workloads such as Large Language Models, Image Recognition, and other cutting-edge AI models, but with none of the complex operations, tuning, and fragility of parallel file systems.
VAST’s inherently parallel architecture and archive economics make it possible to consolidate workloads to a secure, reliable platform that makes all data instantly available for AI.
PDF - Analyst Report – IDC – High Performance NFS Storage for HPC-AI
This IDC Perspective discusses VAST Data’s continued hypergrowth and how growing data demands are driving it. VAST Data has set the enterprise storage industry record for rapid growth not only in the unstructured data storage market but for all storage markets in the history of the industry.
IDC explains the VAST Data value proposition from a business point of view and also delves into the technical validation behind VAST’s compelling offering.
“VAST Data addresses the needs of unstructured data management in this new era, and its financial performance to date speaks for itself. Not only is it a vendor to watch in enterprise storage, it is THE vendor to watch.” - Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group at IDC
PDF - Analyst Report – The VAST Data Platform Redraws the Data Infrastructure Landscape
In this analyst report IT Market Strategy reviews the VAST Data Platform which is comprised of: the VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase, VAST DataSpace and VAST DataEngine.
Existing technology platforms have begun to approach the end of their design paradigms’ utility, and organizations worldwide are ready to modernize all the way down the stack.
VAST Data will enable them to rethink and break down barriers that were long assumed to be unchangeable, tackling a growing set of new data infrastructure challenges beyond storage.
PDF - Analyst Report – Revolutionizing AI Infrastructure
This report explores the VAST DataBase, a next-generation database within the VAST Data Platform optimized for transactional, analytical, and real-time data workloads in the deep learning era.
VAST Data has introduced the VAST Data Platform, a unique offering that stores and manages both structured (tables) and unstructured (files and objects) data in a single all-flash system based on VAST’s DASE scale-out architecture.
The VAST DataBase is the first all-flash transactional and analytical system for AI that simplifies data engineering by eliminating tiers of data management and combines the transactional properties of a relational database with the schema of a data warehouse.
VAST NVIDIA Partnership
VAST Data and NVIDIA share a common goal of democratizing the power of artificial intelligence for organizations of all sizes. As the first enterprise NAS solution to achieve SuperPOD certification, the VAST Data Platform makes AI simpler, faster, and easier to manage with parallel file system performance and NAS simplicity.
NVIDIA + VAST | Powering Generative AI Through End-to-End Innovation
Learn how NVIDIA and VAST are powering generative AI through end-to-end, full-stack enterprise innovation.
12 Reasons Why Your AI Initiatives Need VAST Data for NVIDIA SuperPOD
Watch this on-demand webinar as VAST Data’s Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder & CMO, and Jan Heichler, International Alliances Lead, join The Register’s James Hayes to reveal the compelling reasons why a purpose-built AI data platform is key to success for enterprises leveraging AI.
During the discussion they will explain how a scalable SuperPOD solution can accelerate your AI journey, and seamlessly integrate AI into your business operations – as well as highlight some of the pitfalls that can hinder enterprise AI adoption.
PDF - VAST Data Platform for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
The VAST Data Platform is the first enterprise NAS solution certified for the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, delivering virtually limitless levels of scale and performance via a system architecture that eliminates data tiers and silos.
Many organizations struggle with the complexities of building and deploying AI solutions and need a turnkey solution that can be easily supported by their existing IT teams.
The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with the VAST Data Platform is engineered to eliminate the guesswork for innovative organizations and accelerate their AI initiatives. Now enterprise IT teams can deploy large-scale AI that is simpler, faster, and easier to manage.
PDF - VAST Universal Storage for Deep Learning
As AI becomes democratized, niche HPC storage products are difficult for enterprise IT organizations to adopt and operationalize on a broad basis.
In addition, AI file accesses are small and random in nature, making AI the killer use case for flash storage – but parallel file systems and burst buffers were never designed for providing random read access to petabytes of flash.
VAST combines the single-host performance and the scalability of a parallel file system with the simplicity of an All-Flash NAS appliance.
By marrying the performance of Flash with economics that are otherwise only found in HDD-based archive storage, VAST enables AI applications to consolidate infrastructure and accelerate training and inference time.
PDF - Analyst Report - Demystifying AI IO Performance
AI DL IO patterns are characterized by almost 100% read workloads and are dominated by random reads, in often small to medium IO sizes, in contrast to traditional High Performance Computing (HPC) which is large block sequential IO.
In this report Silverton Consulting reviews DL storage IO needs for training and inferencing, including parallel processing requirements, and will show some DL training and inferencing IO examples.
Blog Post - The Grand Unification Theory of AI Infrastructure
Can a single data platform truly deliver unparalleled compute, data, and storage services for data-driven applications?
This is the hypothesis VAST Data was founded on. To build a global computing and storage platform that enriches and applies structure to unstructured data to give AI applications the tools needed to derive greater insights from data.
This is the aim of the VAST Data platform... to be all the things for data-driven applications (compute services, data services and storage services), a revolutionary system concept that makes AI computing radically easier, more scalable and more efficient than ever before.
AI Storage Considerations & VAST Data's Approach
Recent advances in AI & machine learning along with a market-driven imperative to leverage AI across industries are presenting a new set of storage challenges that IT organizations have never had to deal with.
In this video VAST’s CMO and Co-Founder, Jeff Denworth, shares why AI is the killer use case for flash storage — and how VAST’s Universal Storage enables IT professionals to meet the challenges of AI with a solution that combines the performance and scalability of a parallel file system with the simplicity of an All-Flash NAS appliance.
PDF - VAST Universal Storage for Life Sciences
Decode the Building Blocks of Life - The VAST Data Platform delivers the scale and performance for advanced life sciences workloads from genomics to structural biology to AI workflows that accelerate life-saving therapies.
VAST breaks the decades-old storage performance and capacity tradeoff to enable bioinformatics applications at any scale to benefit from the speed, IO consistency, and simplicity of all-flash parallel file system storage.
All-Flash Performance - Performance that is 10x faster than scale-out hard drive based storage. Ideal for random and metadata intensive IO.
Tier-5 Cost Efficiency - Engineered at every level to democratize the use of flash for HPC and AI applications.
PDF - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) of Medical Research + VAST
ALL- FLASH DATA LAKES AT ARCHIVE ECONOMICS
Enterprises continue to embrace real-time computing tools such as Apache Spark, Vertica, Trino, and Elasticsearch, shifting away from batch-oriented tools of the Hadoop era.
Most file and object storage systems (new and legacy) fail to scale performance affordably and do not scale beyond a few petabytes.
High Performance at Any Query Load - VAST Data’s massively-parallel architecture delivers concurrency and real-time responsiveness at scale.
Limitless Scale - Scale capacity to 100s of petabytes and beyond without requiring complex capacity upgrades.
Eliminate Data Silos - Access the same data via S3 & NFS and eliminate specialized storage or multiple copies of data.
Allen Institute + VAST | Facilitating Neuronal Structure and Function Analysis
Learn about VAST's pivotal role in supporting the Allen Institute's data-intensive machine learning workloads, facilitating their analysis of neuronal structure and function.