The VAST Data Vision - A Platform Built for the AI Era
Beyond the AI we experience today, there is a promise of…
something infinite…
something intelligent…
something that will advance humanity beyond human ability.
It’s time to build the infrastructure for the next age of discovery.
On August 1, 2023 VAST Data’s Build Beyond event was held where the company announced the VAST Data Platform, its vision to transform AI development. Watch this 1 hour event which includes an overview of the three new components to the VAST Data Platform; the VAST Database, the VAST DataSpace and the VAST DataEngine, as well as an overview of the VAST Datastore which has been available since 2018 and is the foundation for the VAST Data Platform.
Speakers includes representatives from Pixar, Zoom, NVIDIA and the Allen Institute, each sharing their unique experience with VAST Data.
Below you will find additional Videos from the Build Beyond event
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Videos that explain the VAST DASE Architecture, the VAST DataStore, the VAST DataSpace, the VAST DataBase and the VAST DataEngine which comprise the VAST Data Platform.
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Two roundtable discussions with industry analysts hosted by theCube moderators John Furrier and Dave Vellanti as they discuss VAST’s Build Beyond vision and the VAST Data Platform.
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An interview by John and Dave with VAST cofounder and CTO Renen Hallak.
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Tony Paikeday, senior director of product marketing, AI systems, at Nvidia, speaks with theCUBE industry analyst John Furrier. He is joined by John Mao, vice president of global business development at VAST. They discussed the two companies’ big announcement and how the two firms have collaborated to meet the AI needs of enterprise customers.
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Kevin Weiler, head of infrastructure at Aquatic Capital Management, speaks with theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante and Jeff Denworth, co-founder of VAST Data. They discussed how VAST’s technology supports Aquatic’s predictive research.
The concept of a unified data platform involves a combination of compute, data and storage layers wrapped into a seamless package.
The Vast Data Platform
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Addresses the complexities of AI infrastructure and creates a unified data platform that caters to the needs of data developers.
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Eliminates the need for enterprises to struggle with piecing together various technologies to build deep learning pipelines, marrying unstructured data with structured data by storing, processing, and distributing that data from a single,unified system.
The VAST Data Platform is comprised of the VAST DataStore, The VAST Dataspace, The VAST DataBase and the VAST DataEngine.
The VAST DataStore is a scalable storage architecture for unstructured data that eliminates storage tiering and is built to meet the needs of robust AI computing architectures, such as NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, AI supercomputers and big-data and HPC platforms.
Resolving the cost of flash storage is critical to laying the foundation for deep learning. The efficiency VAST’s exabyte-scale disaggregated, shared-everything architecture (DASE) brings archive economics to flash infrastructure while enabling true parallelism, unleashing the full potential of AI at scale.
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Please visit our VAST DataStore page for more information
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The VAST DataSpace is a global namespace that permits every location to store, retrieve, and process data from any location with high performance while enforcing strict consistency across every access point. With the DataSpace the VAST Data Platform is deployable in on-premises data centers and edge environments as well as in leading public cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
The VAST DataBase has been introduced to apply structure to unstructured natural data. By combining the characteristics of a database, a data warehouse and a data lake in one simple, distributed, and unified database management system, VAST has resolved the tradeoffs between transactions (to capture and catalog natural data in real-time) and analytics (to analyze and correlate data in real-time). The VAST DataBase is designed for rapid data capture and fast queries at any scale, breaking the barriers of real-time analytics from the event stream to the archive.
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The VAST DataEngine is a global function execution engine that consolidates data centers and cloud regions into one global computational framework. The engine supports popular programming languages, such as SQL and Python. It introduces an event notification system and materialized and reproducible model training making it easier to manage AI pipelines.
Blog Post – The Grand Unification Theory of AI Infrastructure
In this blog post by Jeff Denworth, VAST Data co-founder, Jeff shares VAST Data’s vision for the future of computing; a global computing and storage platform that organizes data from the real world, a machine (in software) that enriches and applies structure to unstructured data enabling AI applications to derive greater insights from data.
Learn what a unified AI stack means for you and how the VAST Data Platform effectively collapses tiers to unlock:​
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One tier of unstructured data.
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One database
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One dataset
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One namespace.
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One platform
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One perpetual learning machine
The VAST DataStore’s DASE Architecture Explained | Build Beyond
​The ground-breaking foundation of the VAST Data Platform, the Disaggregated, Shared-Everything Architecture (DASE) empowers the most demanding workloads by providing performance, capacity, scale, resilience, and simplicity at archive economics.
The VAST DataStore Explained |
Build Beyond
The unstructured data foundation for deep learning, the VAST DataStore breaks the tradeoff between performance and capacity.
A scalable multi-protocol storage architecture for your unstructured data that meets the needs of the most powerful AI computing architectures, while bringing archive economics.
The VAST DataSpace Explained | Build Beyond
​An edge-to-cloud global namespace, the VAST DataSpace breaks the tradeoff between performance and consistency by enabling high-performance reads and writes across all of your locations from edge-to-cloud, while ensuring strict consistency.
​The VAST DataBase Explained | Build Beyond
Applying structure to unstructured data at any scale, the VAST DataBase breaks the tradeoff between transaction systems and deep analytics.
An exabyte-scale database system enabling real-time data capture, cataloging, analyzing, and correlating, by combining the benefits of a database, data warehouse, and data lake.
​The VAST DataEngine Explained | Build Beyond
​The compute engine of the VAST Data Platform, the VAST DataEngine brings insights to life by adding functions and triggers to data, simplifying AI pipeline management.
​VAST Data Platform Breakdown | VAST presents: Build Beyond
VAST Data Co-founder Jeff Denworth digs into the salient elements of the VAST Data Platform and how it's different than today's modern data systems.
Denworth spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Jeff Furrier and Dave Vellante at the Vast presents: Build Beyond even. They discussed VAST’s vision and the impact its data platform is having on the industry, while also unpacking the role of AI, the gaps in today's market offerings and the role VAST intends to play in the AI value chain.
VAST’s mission is to address the complexities of AI infrastructure and create a unified data platform that caters to the needs of data developers. The VAST platform eliminates the need for enterprises to struggle with piecing together various technologies to build deep learning pipelines, according to Denworth. The concept of a data platform, in the company’s vision, involves a combination of compute, data and storage layers wrapped into a seamless package.
​VAST Vision | VAST presents: Build Beyond
At the “VAST presents: Build Beyond” event, theCUBE analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sit down with the driving force behind VAST Data, CEO and co-founder Renen Hallak, as he lays out his vision and shares how he sees the future of data platforms driving customer value.
Hallak speaks with Furrier and Vellante about the future of AI and data storage through VAST’s platform, highlighting the journey to real AI, the power of scale and the rise of data developers.
During the interview, Hallak also talks about how VAST’s unique architecture is centered around scale, performance and resilience. The VAST Data Platform is designed to break the traditional trade-offs between storage and data systems and allows qualitative advantages with more data.
​Analyst Roundtable - The Future of Data Platforms | VAST presents: Build Beyond
VAST is attempting to re-imagine the future of data platforms. We kick off the program unpacking the VAST announcements and mapping it to the CUBE's model of how data apps are evolving.
TheCUBE industry analyst David Vellante joined his co-analysts John Furrier, Rob Strechay and George Gilbert, during the keynote analysis at the “VAST presents: Build Beyond” event. The panel discusses the keynote during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They talk about the implications of VAST’s latest announcement, exploring how it is reimagining the future of data platforms and paving the way for an era where data becomes the API to the real world.
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The event, held in Palo Alto, unveils VAST’s data platform, which aims to redefine the future of data management and analytics. VAST has been making waves in the tech world, and many initially perceived it as just another storage company. However, the company has revealed that it is much more than that. Beyond the technical documentation, VAST has built a data platform that goes far beyond conventional storage protocols, enabling a new way of thinking about data.
​Analyst Roundtable II | VAST presents: Build Beyond
In this session, Sanjeev Mohan, former respected Gartner data analysts and current principle at SanjMo, joined theCUBE to give his insights during an analyst roundtable.
Mohan speaks with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier, Dave Vellante and Rob Strechay at the Vast presents: Build Beyond event. They discussed the market, trends, customer requirements, future industry directions and where Vast fits.
TheCUBE’s event brought together various industry experts to discuss the VAST’s disruptive strategy, which is challenging traditional norms and helping to redefine the future of data management. During the segment, Mohan speaks about the evolution of the data landscape and how VAST Data’s vision and execution hold the potential to help reshape the industry and unlock a new era of possibilities for businesses harnessing the power of AI.
VAST Partner Segment: NVIDIA + VAST | VAST presents: Build Beyond
Nvidia is the mainspring of AI innovation, driving new forms of capabilities in processing power that will take the industry to the next level of data value. But they can't do it alone. In this session theCUBE explores how VAST is partnering with Nvidia and the role it plays in the value chain.
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Tony Paikeday, senior director of product marketing, AI systems, at Nvidia, speaks with theCUBE industry analyst John Furrier at the “VAST presents: Build Beyond” event. He is joined by John Mao, vice president of global business development at VAST. They discussed the two companies’ big announcement and how the two firms have collaborated to meet the AI needs of enterprise customers.
Highlights from the interview include the announcement of the launch of VAST DataSpace, a global namespace designed to allow any location to store, retrieve and access information from any other location, including multiple cloud platforms.
VAST Customer Segment: VAST + Aquatic Capital Management | VAST presents: Build Beyond
VAST is about solving hard data problems. Aquatic Capital Management is using applied research and AI to build investment strategies, combining a high-performance research and a development platform that it hopes will be the world's best prediction machine. How is this changing the world of investing? What data problems is the company facing and how is VAST helping power its business?
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Kevin Weiler, head of infrastructure at Aquatic Capital Management, speaks with theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante at the “VAST presents: Build Beyond” event. He was joined by Jeff Denworth, co-founder of VAST Data. They discussed how VAST’s technology supports Aquatic’s predictive research.
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Also, up for discussion, how Aquatic’s financial trading strategies rely on algorithms that can quickly access large amounts of data to predict and capitalize on market trends, and how Aquatic turned to VAST and its ability to synthesize structured and unstructured data in a unified architecture that could extract insights from massive datasets
Breaking Analysis: Moving beyond separation of compute & storage Journey to the 6th data platform
Recorded on December 11, 2023, four months after the Build Beyond event, theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and George Gilbert continue their quest to more deeply understand the emergence of a sixth data platform that can support intelligent applications in real time. Toward this end, they welcome the two founders of VAST Data, CEO Renen Hallak and Jeff Denworth.
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The discussion with Hallak and Denworth delves into the limitations of current data platform architectures, highlighting the transition from shared-nothing to sharedeverything architectures for improved scalability and performance. VAST Data's approach involves unifying structured and unstructured data stores and utilizing GPUs and neural networks for real-time data understanding.